Help poorly children

What can I say that you won’t already have heard at this frightening time?

Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity is facing a very real concern that we will not be able to continue supporting families with a terminally ill child.

We urgently need your help.

The families we support are already facing the unimaginable thought that their child may die before them.

Now, they are also experiencing enormous Coronavirus fears.

Our Family Support Workers are continuing to do all they can – this week they delivered expressed breast milk to a neonatal ward from a mother who wasn’t allowed to visit her premature baby, due to strict visitor restrictions.

Families often tell us that Rainbow Trust Family Support Workers are one of the only trusted “constants” in their lives, helping them as they face uncharted territory and uncertainty.

That is not changing in the short term. We will continue to be there in whatever way we can, for as long as is possible.

However, we desperately need funds in order to keep Rainbow Trust going.

Ninety eight per cent of our income comes from the generosity of the public and all our fundraising events for the foreseeable future have been cancelled or postponed.

I implore you to give whatever you can at this frightening time, so that families caring for their seriously ill child can still be supported.

Please visit rainbowtrust.org.uk/donate

Zillah Bingley Chief Executive, Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. Leatherhead. Surrey.