“We would like to thank the board of AFC Liverpool for choosing Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice as their official charity. It is a huge honour for us to be in associated with the club and we look forward to working with them over the coming year”. Carol Kirkham, Fundraising Manager

Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice was established in West Derby in 1995 and is the only baby specific hospice in the UK. We specialise in providing palliative and respite care for infants aged 0-5 who all suffer with a life limiting or life threatening condition. Babies at Zoë’s Place are nursed at all times on a one to one basis by Registered Sick Children’s Nurses and qualified Care Assistants and the facilities provided are free of charge to all families accessing the service. Our Charity was established to provide specialist one to one care in a ‘home from home’ environment, 24 hours a day 7 days a week and we currently support 50 families from across Liverpool and Merseyside.

Our work is based around meeting specific social needs not just in terms of the care and support we provide for our children but also in terms of the respite services we can provide for their parents and siblings and this has proven to be vital to so many of the families who have benefited from our service. Every one of the families we support and care for is afforded respect and dignity regardless of gender, race, culture, religious beliefs or disability.

Our Liverpool based Hospice has recently completed a process of relocation to far larger, more accessible space within our existing building and we are now looking at ways of taking advantage of this development to extend the range of activities and services we provide. We do receive some support from the Department of Health but this equates to around 18% of what we need to raise per year and leaves us with a huge amount to fundraise to continue and develop our service.

Cheers

To find out more about Zoë’s Place you can click on to their website Zoë’s Place