Charity Contact: info@marthacare.org.uk
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Forms: Charity Poster Charity Pack Martha Care Sponsor form.pdf URGENT appeal letter.pdf
Please jump for Martha Care because families with very sick children need your help.
Martha Care is a small charity serving the South West of England. We support families with very sick children who are admitted to hospital. At the moment we have a Martha Care Family Support Worker based at Bristol Royal Children's Hospital who helps on average 12 families per week. We support families by helping them access emergency funds to ease financial hardship, helping families find accommodation to enable them to stay with their child as much as possible; we advise them on social support groups and even provide emotional support ourselves. Our aim is to alleviate the added everyday pressures a hospital stay brings to families to enable them to concentrate fully on supporting their sick child through treatment, often the most traumatic time of a child's life.
The project, so far, has benefited over 70 families since 1st August 2012 and continues to support on average 12 families per week. Bristol Royal Hospital for Children see our work as being so vital that they have asked us to expand into the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) at St Michael's hospital and Southmead Hospital, but we are unable to do this with our current Martha Care Family Support Worker as we don't have enough hours to spare. In fact, we are in a desperate situation which means we may be unable to continue to provide our service at all; Which is why we need your help.
We need to do something extreme to raise money to continue to help families, so what is more extreme than a sky dive?!!!!
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In order to raise money for Martha Care you can choose one of these payment schemes.
In order to raise money for Martha Care you can choose one of these payment schemes.