Virtual Stockings
Give the gift of togetherness to families with a seriously ill child in hospital. Your festive stocking will be displayed on our Virtual stockings page.
Our Christmas Appeal
Donate to keep families together this Christmas
Keep families together this Christmas
The festive season should be one of joy and celebration, but many families will spend Christmas in hospital with their seriously ill child.
We expect all ten of our ‘Homes from Home’ to be full this Christmas, and while it’s free for families, for us, it costs £40 for each night to provide a warm place where they can stay close to their sick child, rest, cook, and shower. But we can’t do it alone and we need your support today.
See how your support could change lives in Lola’s video. Please donate today to keep families together this Christmas and beyond.
Ways to support us this Christmas
Make a Donation
It costs £40 to support a family for just one night. Donate now to help us make sure families can be together this Christmas and beyond.
Festive Gifts
Christmas cards, tree decorations and calendars, every item in our Christmas collection supports families with children in hospital this festive season.
Billy's First Christmas
Baby Billy requited two open heart surgeries at Leeds Children’s Hospital, 40 minutes away from his home in Harrogate. Joe and Charlotte, Billy’s parents, shared their family story:
“Billy spent his first Christmas revering in hospital. Obviously, it was nothing like how we imagined his first Christmas being. We were dreading Christmas Day. It is supposed to be a big family celebration, not spent alone in hospital. It was sad for us and our families that we couldn’t be together. When we arrived on the ward on Christmas Day the medical staff had covered Billy’s bed with presents, with even more at Eckersley House, which was so lovely. All I wanted for Christmas was the three of us to be together. Because of Eckersley House and The Sick Children’s Trust, we could be.”