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We started our mission to help families of seriously ill children back in 2004. By offering tailored care to every child referred to us, we’ve been able to support hundreds of families through the hardest of times, so that they can keep moving forward.
Making a difference
Our story started with our now Founder CEO, Bianca, and a freezer full of lollies.
Whilst working as a receptionist at Kingston Hospital paediatrics, she noticed that small touches make a huge difference to families whose children are seriously ill – small touches like organising a freezer for the ward, so that children could have ice lollies close by to help soothe painful mouth ulcers caused by chemotherapy. With that freezer, and the determination of Bianca and Co-Founders Alison Trigg and Jacqui Coppellotti, Momentum Children’s Charity was born.
This small gesture paved the way for our personal approach when it comes to supporting seriously ill children and their families. Today we do so much more, but our commitment to the unique needs of each and every family, remains at the heart of everything we do.
We support families whose children are facing cancer or a life-challenging condition. We partner with local hospitals to offer personally tailored support to the entire family through our family support workers, both in hospital and at home.
Our support services include counselling, creative therapies, experiences and respite breaks. We also improve the environment for children treated in hospital with our children’s ward refurbishments; transforming bare, clinical areas into bright, child-friendly spaces.
We’re there whatever the outcome, for as long as we’re needed, so that no family has to cope alone.
We work with families across Surrey, London and Sussex, partnering with local hospitals in these areas who refer families to us for support. Whilst it is through the hospitals that families are referred to us, our support services are there for families whether they are at hospital or at home.
We’re a tight knit team and whether we’re heading up fundraising activities, organising respite breaks or talking to a newly diagnosed family, we all share the same purpose and drive – and that’s to make sure that no family with a seriously ill child faces the path ahead alone.
We’re committed to giving the right amount of support, at the right time, to every single family referred to us and we’re lucky enough to work with an incredible team of talented and experienced service providers who help us do just that.
We’re always on the lookout for brilliant and talented people to join our team. Take a look at current opportunities to work for us
We rely entirely on donations to fund our work, and, as we don’t receive any government or statutory funding, our passionate fundraising team build great relationships with our supporters, corporates, school partnerships, and trusts and foundations, so that our plans of hospital refurbishments, new holiday homes, bedroom makeovers and everything in between, all become reality.
