Claire House Hospice
Claire House Children’s Hospice helps seriously and terminally ill children live life to the full by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of normality to family life.
By providing specialist nursing and end of life care, as well as emotional support, Claire House helps families through some of the toughest times of their lives.
Claire House has a team of trained professionals who are as passionate about what they do as they are talented at doing it. Our staff includes nurses, physiotherapists, play specialists, counsellors and we also have four dedicated doctors who visit the hospice. Find Out More Here
Upcoming Events
Keep up to date with our fundraising events. We’ll be adding more regularly as we organise new fundraising campaigns and events.
04/12/22 - 5K Liverpool Santa Dash - Donate
On Sunday 4th December, the team will be donning the seasonal Santa suits and making a mad dash through Liverpool City Centre, braving wild winter winds of the Mersey.
It’s not all fun and games though. We’ll be raising money for Claire House Children’s Hospice. A hospice based on Merseyside providing specialist nursing and end of life care, as well as emotional support, Claire House helps families through some of the toughest times of their lives.
20/04/2023 - Snowdon Charity Hike - Donate
A team from Residential Estates is doing a hike up and down Snowdon, braving the current summit weather! - See the pics here… Read more
19/05/2023 - Pen-y-ghent - Donate
A larger team is walking up the first of the Yorkshire 3 peaks, with a 694m summit there is sure to be some great photo opportunities! - Read more
TBC - Charity Range Night - Donate
The team will be hitting the driving range for a series of fun Golf challenges. Who can drive the furthest? Who will be closest to the pin?
More events Coming Soon…..
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About Claire House Hospice
Creating magical memories
But Claire House is about far more than just care. It offers places for children to relax and enjoy themselves, whatever their age. At our site on the Wirral, they can have fun in our multi-sensory room, art room, hydrotherapy pool and jacuzzi. There is a separate wing complete with bar, sound system and Xbox for teenagers and young adults.
Whilst their children are having fun, mums and dads get the chance to enjoy some much-needed time off together or the opportunity to spend time with their other children.
Claire House opened it’s doors in Liverpool to offer daycare services to the children of Merseyside in January 2018.
It will take us time to raise the money to build a new hospice but we felt it was important to start offering more desperately needed services, such as respite care, holistic therapies and counselling as soon as possible. Our hospice on the Wirral continues to operate as usual.
The new site in West Derby is perfectly located, close to Alder Hey, where many of our children and families visit. The reason we are looking for another site is because we have seen a 61% increase in the number of children and young people we care for in the past five years. Over half of these children come from north of the Mersey.
In regards to opening a full hospice, this will take us some time. We have received outline planning permission which now enables us to start the process of developing a detailed plan for a new hospice. However, as with all our work, this project is very much dependent on the charity raising enough funds.
Care when and where you need it
Not all families want to come to the hospice, so our team goes out to visit them in hospital or their homes and we put on regular trips for brothers and sisters to ensure they don’t miss out on having fun.
Claire House is also there for parents during the toughest of times. Whether they are spent at home or in the hospice, we ensure a child’s final days are memorable and special. We don’t just help with the practical issues of registering a child’s death and arranging their funeral – we provide dedicated round-the-clock support and specialist counselling.
As one family put it: “The best thing about Claire House is knowing that they are always there. From the minute you meet them for as long as you need them.”