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EACH provides care for children across East Anglia with life-threatening conditions, as well as supporting their families. Our range of services is comprehensive, for both bereaved and non-bereaved families. These services include: expert nursing care and short breaks, symptom management nursing, family activities and events, physical therapies, wellbeing services, care at end of life, bereavement support, and practical help in the family home. Depending on a family’s needs and wishes, we can provide care at home, in hospital, in the community, or in one of our three hospices; Milton in Cambridgeshire, The Nook in Norfolk, and The Treehouse in Suffolk. This ensures every family receives care somewhere they feel safe and comfortable. Our brilliant team works together to enable the best possible quality of life for children. Our care helps to keep children as comfortable and pain-free as possible, supports the wellbeing of the whole family, and helps them make the most of their precious time together.

Shine offers a Friday night Youth Club during term time for 8 - 18 year olds. All children and young people attending have a disability or an additional need. At Youth Club we work on developing our Social Skills. This includes cooking, making a cup of tea, socialising with peers, gardening and turn taking. Our favourite time is when we are able to go out as a group and we have attended bowling, a musical and a restaurant where we ordered our own food. This is a good experience as we are socialising with our friends whilst being supported and kept safe. These trips with Shine enables its members to have similar life experiences to their peers without additional needs or disability.

Once built, the nook will transform our care to meet the changing needs of children and help us meet the increasing demand for our services. The nook will have: • a far larger care area, all on a single floor • more areas for clinical care and improved medical and nursing equipment • fantastic activity areas for arts, crafts and play • a hydrotherapy pool – something we don’t have the space for at Quidenham • a large state-of-the-art sensory room • dedicated therapy rooms and music studio • larger and better equipped en-suite bedrooms for children and young people • en-suite family accommodation rooms • far more outside space for children to safely play and explore • a special quiet haven area for families • facilities for family support groups, counselling, therapies and activities. Since its launch in November 2014, supported by our Patron HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, the nook appeal has secured £3.5 million with a further £6.5 million needed to make this much-needed facility a reality. We rely on donations for the majority of the income needed to deliver our services and all the funds required to build the nook. We need help from individual giving, trusts, events, and corporate and community fundraising. We need everyone to help in whatever way they can. A large way in which the local business community has been supporting us, is through our nook business network. We are looking for companies to commit to raising either £10,000, £15,000 or £25,000 over the duration of our appeal, and to consequently create a Norfolk network that will help those who need it most. In addition to our Nook Business Network, we are looking for businesses to fundraise for us, donate to us, or choose us as their Charity of the Year - all to help us near our £10million target.