Children’s Hospice Week
Children’s Hospice Week is the UK’s annual awareness week for children’s hospices and palliative care services. From 15-21 June 2026 join us on a journey to precious moments. Let’s discover your local children’s hospice together.
Why we celebrate Children’s Hospice Week
Children’s hospices bring precious moments of happiness to families of children living with serious illness. But they’re under real funding pressure: without more support, they can’t provide all the care families rely on.
Each year in June, we unite the children’s palliative care sector to:
- Increase awareness of the incredible work that children’s hospices do
- Improve understanding about children’s palliative care
- Raise much needed funds for children’s hospices across the UK
Step up for children with serious illness
With every step, every push forward, every leap, every movement, you can help change the lives of the 99,000 babies, children and young people in the UK living with serious illness. This Children’s Hospice Week, take on the challenge of completing 99,000 steps in a week to help keep these vital services running for families today, tomorrow, and in the future.
Our latest funding report
As the number of children living longer with highly complex medical needs grows, children’s hospices are delivering more care than ever before. This means that their costs have risen by 18% in a single year, forcing them to rely on charitable income and reserves to maintain essential services. Our new UK-wide report, Vital care, fragile funding: why children’s hospices can’t keep filling the gap, highlights the key drivers.
Children’s Hospices are amazing
Children’s hospices are a lifeline for children and young people with serious illness, and their families. These incredible places provide a multitude of services that help children with life-shortening conditions make the most of every moment.
From physiotherapy to music therapy, 24 hour telephone support to short break care, children’s hospices are there for families, every step of the way.
Supporting, uniting, campaigning, together
Join our mission to make every moment count for children with serious illness. We'd love to keep in touch.