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Join us 1 - 7 February 2018, at your local Children's Hospice South West shop, for an informal chat about what it is like when you volunteer in our friendly shop team.

We rely on our army of superb shop volunteers who help us run our 32 shops and raise much needed funds to support our three children's hospices. But with more volunteers we can do even more together!

Volunteers are vital to our shops and help our retail team to raise over £1m for the care at the hospices. Each and every volunteer helps make such a difference, plus many tell us that they get something really valuable from

Yate-based Recruitment and Human Resource’s Consultation company, Clever HR, is supporting Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as its charity of the year, with lots of events planned throughout 2018.

James Rendell, Clever HR’s Managing Director, said ‘Clever HR is thrilled to support Children’s Hospice South West. The service provided to families across the South West is remarkable and we look forward to taking part in a number of fundraisers throughout the year.’

Clever HR’s fundraising plans include taking part in CHSW’s £50 Challenge whereby employees have to use all their business acumen

49 year old Stuart Shenton from Wadebridge will be tackling the Bath Half Marathon on 4 th March 2018 and while doing so will be raising funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Stuart does not profess to be a runner;

I don’t have any history as a runner! The last time I did any kind of race was school sports day 1985” however was inspired to start running following his wife taking part in the Plymouth 10k a few years ago.

To mark his milestone birthday Stuart decided that a half marathon was going to be his target and chose the Bath Half Marathon as this is known to be a relatively

In celebration of 25 years in business, the Wise Employment Group wanted to mark this special occasion by giving back to the local community within the South and South West network of branches.

The Group were excited to choose to work with Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as it was not only a very worthy charity but had the same geographical match and was established in the same year.

The challenge was to raise £25000 in 2017, representing a £1000 for each year in business by involving its clients, temporary personnel and permanent candidates in the local communities.

It set about

January can be a tough month for everyone but for families that are supported by Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) it can symbolise the start of another year of uncertainty, knowing that they need to make the most of the time they have with their child.

To raise funds to support the families using its three children's hospices Little Bridge House in Barnstaple, Charlton Farm near Bristol and Little Harbour in St Austell, CHSW have got a range of different challenges supporters can take on throughout 2018 to help fundraise for vital donations needed.

If doing a skydive is something that has

One 77 Mortgages based in Chippenham, Wiltshire, has chosen Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as its Charity of the Year.

Darren Walker, Head of New Business at One 77, has experienced first-hand how the CHSW helps families at a difficult time in their lives. Darren’s son Morgan was born 8 weeks premature, weighed just 3lb 10oz, and had to be rushed to the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU), where he was put on a machine to help him breathe.

After 4 weeks Morgan was finally discharged home, but had to return to hospital 4 weeks later for an MRI brain scan. Darren says, ‘The day we

After 20 years of constant use, the sensory facilities at Children’s Hospice South West’s Little Bridge House in Fremington were in need of refurbishment. Thanks to generous funding, including a donation from the children’s charity of rugby, the Wooden Spoon Society, the hospice has been able to completely refurbish the room into a high tech multi-sensory play room which was visited by rugby legend Phil Vickery on Friday 12 January.

Tracy Freame, Head of Care at Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) said:

Multi-sensory stimulation plays a vital role in meeting specialised therapeutic needs for

Our families are set for an even more exciting journey through our Chronicles of Narnia Sensory Garden at Little Bridge House, thanks to the installation of brand new sound effects.

They include enhanced sounds such as boots walking through snow, thunder and lightning, the bells of the Snow Queen’s sleigh and the roar of Aslan the Lion.

The work has been made possible thanks to funding from Tesco’s Bags of Help grant scheme, which comes from the sale of carrier bags in its stores, and Groundwork UK. Thank you to everyone who voted in their local store!

The work was completed by sound artist

Emma, 33 from Bideford in Devon, is taking part in the 2018 London Marathon for Children's Hospice South West (CHSW) in memory of her eldest daughter, Imogen. Here, she says in her own words why taking part in the marathon and fundraising for CHSW is so important.

“Imogen was born on 12th July 2011 after a very worrying and anxious pregnancy. We were told that she would have a condition called microcephaly (which basically means she would have a small micro, head - cephaly) but other than this we were uncertain as to what future lay ahead for her.

She was our first child, a much longed for

Finley is a pupil at the All Saints Marsh Primary School in Newton Abbot. Finley, pictured in his favourite Ginsters top, visits our Little Bridge House hospice in Devon with his brother Stanley and his school has decided as a result to choose Children's Hospice South West as its chosen charity for the 2017/2018 academic year.

To kickstart the fundraising year, the school hosted a 'Wear something green in support of CHSW' day and Laura Board, community fundraiser for the area visited the school and said:

We're delighted that All Saints Marsh Primary School has decided to choose to support CHSW