What we do

Together for Short Lives is the leading UK-wide charity for children living with serious illness, their families and the services that provide them with palliative care.

Together we support families to live their lives, through the ups and downs, offering practical, emotional and financial help. We listen, we support and, when they’re ready, we connect them to the right services and our incredible community – people who really get what they’re going through. ​ ​

Together we unite our sector by prioritising and sharing crucial research, defining the children who could benefit from palliative care and how they can be supported now. We lead on guidance, service models and standards and help professionals to meet, learn and share. We raise vital funds for children’s hospice and palliative care services.

​Together we campaign to make sure that children with serious illness and their families get the care and support they need. We hear what families and services tell us, rally the community and give people a ​voice. ​And where the system falls short, we demand change. ​ ​

​Supporting, uniting, campaigning, together.

We are Together for Short Lives.