Founded in 1988 at the heart of England, Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust is a charitable foundation that offers a wide range of care to life-threatened and life-limited children and young individuals and their families across United Kingdom. These children and adolescents are unlikely to reach adulthood, and therefore require specialized and holistic care every hour of the day, every day of the year. As of the moment, Acorns support more than 650 children and 920 families in England.

Acorns Children’s Hospice is the only organization that delivers this unique and unparalleled care to vulnerable young people while providing a full range of support services to their entire families, helping them cope at every level of their children’s lives as well as way beyond into the bereavement process.

The foundation provides individualized nursing care to every child that comes into its doorsteps, which includes short breaks, emergency medical services and end-of-life care carried out in any of their hospices in the country. There is no charge for children and their families for availing of Acorns’ services and the organization relies largely on its communities to fund most of their activities.

It currently costs approximately 8 million pounds a year to provide holistic care to their clients and support their families. Acorns depends heavily on the public to fund their operations and it can be done by way of organizing their own fundraising events, taking part in exciting income-generating programs, visiting any of the Acorns shops scattered all over the country, volunteering their time on their hospices or making donations, in cash or in kind.

For nearly 25 years, Acorn has provided holistic, specialized and palliative care to hundreds of youngsters and their families in their region. The foundation delivers all of their services in collaboration with other individuals and organizations, while advocating their cause of providing holistic, tailored care to children and young individuals who might be leaving this world a little too soon.