National VA Conference & Awards Ceremony 2008 Saturday 19th April 2008
This event's Charity is The Rainbow Trust
Website: www.rainbowtrust.org.uk
Our 2007 Runner Up, Lisa Trouliotis works very closely with the charity helping to arrange some of their events.About Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity Established in 1986, Rainbow Trust provides vital practical and emotional support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. Regional Family Support Workers provide care in the families’ own homes through diagnosis, treatment and beyond bereavement.
This complements the much needed respite breaks offered to families at our two Rainbow Houses in Surrey and Northumberland. Rainbow Houses are warm, welcoming homes with well equipped playrooms, indoor swimming pools and gardens that all the family can enjoy. Family Support Workers ensure families have someone to rely on at all times, their service is totally bespoke to each family but can include providing hospital transport, helping with school runs and household chores or giving healthy siblings a fun day out.
Rainbow Trust aims to maintain a sense of normality and keep families together through traumatic times with no time limit. We support 1000 families a year which is only 10% of those who need our help and we are 100% reliant on voluntary funding.
