Tony Hadley & Friends Virtual Fundraiser
Date: Saturday 1st August 2020 - Sunday 16th August 2020
Where: Online,
Tony Hadley will be the host of a special virtual fundraiser this August in aid of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices. As a Vice-President of the charity, Tony will perform duets with special guests Michael Ball, a Patron of the charity, Shane Richie and Kaiser Chiefs’ frontman Ricky Wilson.
Simply make a donation of £5 on the online auction site, which will be live from 1st August, and you will be sent a link to watch the pre-recorded exclusive fundraiser.
The fundraiser will be presented by comedian Joel Dommett with special guest contributions from Shooting Star Children’s Hospices Royal Patron HRH The Countess of Wessex, Vice-Presidents Dame Joan Collins and Simon Cowell, and Patrons Philip Glenister and Laurence and Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen.
TONY HADLEY & FRIENDS ONLINE AUCTION LIVE!
Click the following Link from Saturday 1st August to donate and bid via the online auction site.
SHOOTING STAR TONY HADLEY FUNDRAISER - CLICK FOR MORE INFO!!
Please note: Only donations made via the online auction site (accessible via a button on this page from 1st August) will receive the link to the exclusive Tony Hadley fundraiser (donations made via this website will not include the link). Thank you.
An update from our Chief Executive, Nigel Harding
This is by far one of the most challenging and unprecedented times that many of us have had to face and I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well at this difficult time.
At Shooting Star Children’s Hospices our main priority is to do all we can to maintain services where possible and ensure the safety of the children and families we care for, as well as our staff, volunteers and supporters. We are continuing to closely monitor developments in relation to COVID-19 and we’re following guidance from Public Health England, the UK Government and the World Health Organisation.
Please find information below outlining how the current situation is affecting Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.
Our hospices
The babies, children and young people we support have compromised immune systems, which places them in a high-risk category so we’ve had to make tough, but necessary, decisions to ensure they, and their families, are safe. The measures we currently have in place are:
- We are continuing to provide end-of-life care and emergency or urgent respite (including symptom stays and step-down care). Planned respite at the hospices or in the family home is currently not available.
- We are currently delivering all our clinical services from our Guildford hospice, Christopher’s. Whilst families continue to shield, our Hampton hospice, Shooting Star House, will remain closed from a care perspective, but we’re looking at how we can use it flexibly over the next 12 months.
- We have launched a virtual hospice, including virtual groups, a closed Facebook page and an online resource ‘hub’, to continue to reach as many families as possible who are self-isolating at home.
- Groups, events and Daycare have stopped, and professional courses and study days have been postponed.
- Only supported families and care staff are permitted at the hospice.
- Our care team are equipped with PPE and we have posters up reminding everyone to regularly wash their hands.
- We’re being extra vigilant in terms of housekeeping to ensure high contact areas such as door handles, light switches and toilets are being thoroughly cleaned.
Fundraising and our shops
On Thursday 8th April, we were given the welcome news that the UK Government are stepping up to help charities. We are thankful that at a time when our vital services are most needed, services that play an important role in supporting the NHS, we will receive some funding from the Government. However, this funding will only help us in the short-term. We are, sadly, still very reliant on our incredible community of supporters to help us through the next few months to ensure we’ll be here long into the future. If you’d like to donate, please visit our coronavirus appeal page.
Our Sunrise Walk series
Due to the restrictions from the UK Government to minimise social contact and mass gatherings, we have had to come to the very difficult decision to cancel both our Sunrise Walk events in Richmond (Sunday 31st May) and Guildford (Sunday 28th June).
This has been a truly difficult decision for us to make and we realise how disappointing this will be for many of you. We know many of you will still want to support us, so we’ve launched a Virtual Sunrise Walk.
We are continuing to monitor the situation in relation to our Snowdon Sunrise Walk and we will keep you informed about this.
Our shops
We’re delighted that as of Tuesday 23rd June, our Cobham and Weybridge shops will re-open – please check here for the opening days and times. Please keep an eye on this page, and our social media pages, for more information as to when the rest of our shops will re-open. We are still unable to accept donations at any of our shops, including those that are open. We kindly ask that you do not leave donations outside any of our shops. Please do keep hold of them and we will be delighted to accept them when the current situation eases.
Our team
Following the government’s social distancing guidance and the impact this has had on our shops and fundraising, as well as the requirement to ‘work from home where possible’, we have had to make the very difficult decision to furlough some of our team under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
To ensure we have a team in place to safely continue to provide end-of-life care and urgent or emergency respite, all of our in-house nurses are now working out of our Guildford hospice, as well as many of our Health Care Assistants. Some of our nurses and carers have also been seconded to St Peter’s Hospital to support the work of the NHS.
If you need to contact a member of the team who has been furloughed, you will receive an out of office with the contact name and number of alternative member of staff who will be able to help with your enquiry at this time.
During this difficult and ever-changing situation, we would urge people living across London and Surrey to support us where they can, as we really do need you now more than ever.
You can do this by donating to our coronavirus appeal or perhaps you could set up a Facebook fundraiser? Those who were planning on taking part in an event for us that’s been cancelled or postponed can also still support our vital cause by taking on our virtual challenge.
Please do continue to check this page as we will update it as and when things change.
Thank you for your continued support,
Nigel
