The Demelza House family provides an oasis of care for children throughout the South East whose medical condition means they are unlikely to reach adult life. When a child is diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, parents have to cope not only with the fact that they will not reach adulthood, but with the additional demands of providing 24 hour care needs, visits to hospitals as well as looking after other family members.

The Demelza House family is there to help them.

Demelza House provides an eight bedded hospice with specialist paediatric nurses in Sittingbourne, Kent. Over 300 children and their families benefit from a wide range of respite and palliative care facilities that include a multi-sensory room, Soft Play, Jacuzzi, and Adolescents’ Room. Available therapies include music, art and aromatherapy. Parents have described having the opportunity of an undisturbed night’s sleep as pure luxury.

It costs £2.2 million per year to run our wide range of hospice services and we receive no statutory funding. Tel: 01795 845231 Central Fundraising.

Website: www.demelza.org.uk

Registered Charity No. 1039651