The Brainwave Centre is a charity which provides individually designed home based therapy for children up to twelve years old. The Brainwave Programme uniquely supports families; ensuring children with a brain injury or genetic condition are helped to reach their full potential.

Following a detailed assessment of each child, a sequence of exercises is designed, based on physiological and neurological principles to meet the individual child's challenges and needs. The exercises facilitate and reinforce normal patterns of movement and in many instances will include cognitive, multi sensory exercises and vestibular techniques and where appropriate, hydrotherapy.

Further details can be found on their website
www.brainwave.org.uk

CHAS is committed to the provision of children's hospice services in Scotland, working exclusively with children who have life limiting conditions and their families. The charity runs Scotland's only children's hospices, Rachel House in the East of Scotland and Robin House at Loch Lomond in the West. CHAS also runs Rachel House at Home based in Inverness which supports families in their own homes in the Highlands.

CHAS cares for the whole family, providing specialist palliative support through respite, emergency and terminal care. Families are also supported through their bereavement, often for many years. Both Rachel and Robin House are homes from home for families, providing a haven of friendship, information and expert care to families when they need it most.

Further details can be found on their website
www.chas.org.uk

Based in Stockton-on-Tees, Daisy Chain offers a haven for children with autism and their families through the provision of a variety of facilities designed to give them an enjoyable experience.

The facilities include sensory areas, an animal barn, agricultural and horticultural opportunities and nature trails. Daisy Chain also provides parents, carers and siblings with support facilities such as support groups and a resource library. They are currently raising funds to develop an overnight respite facility, play barn and swimming pool.

Further details can be found on their website
www.daisychainproject.co.uk

Francis House Children’s Hospice is based in Manchester and focuses on caring for children with a short life expectancy. It offers families of very sick children a respite from their roles as carers and gives the children a loving home from home. The philosophy of Francis House and Rainbow Family Trust flows from the belief in the sanctity of life, and the dignity of the person.

Further details can be found on their website
www.francishouse.org.uk

Based in Dublin, the Temple Street Children's University Hospital provides an acute paediatric service and specialist paediatric healthcare for over 123,000 children from all over Ireland. Funds raised to support the hospital go towards new equipment, technology and the development of new medical specialities in order to provide the best possible environment for the children in its care.

Further details can be found on their website
www.childrenshospital.ie

Based in Dublin, The Children's Sunshine Home provides home-support, respite and residential services to children, and families of children, with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Most are unlikely to live to adulthood. It is commencing a building project to develop Ireland's first Children's Hospice and will provide Specialist Palliative Care Services on a national level. Family is central to the care of their child. The Children's Sunshine Home is not a sad place, it's a place for living. It provides an opportunity to share concerns and worries with people who understand. It is a place of fun and laughter, enjoyment, love and support.

Further details can be found on their website
www.sunshinehome.ie

UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working specifically for children. UNICEF’s global children and AIDS campaign, ‘Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS’ highlights for the first time how children are the missing face of the AIDS pandemic.

Further details can be found on their web site.
www.unicef.org.uk/aids