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Daisy Chains IW Childrens Charity

Health

We need to be able to access enough funds to cover the essential travel costs and take very poorly children to hospital.

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About this cause

Daisy Chains IW has been set up to help the children on the Isle of Wight who have been diagnosed with a Life limiting illness, long term health problem or disability. To include premature babies, we help the families with the cost of ferry travel to the mainland to essential appointments at hospitals and therapy centres. Some families at the worst times are travelling up to 5 times a week for sometimes life saving/changing treatment and the financial strain on the family is huge. We book and pay for their travel as and when needed, we also pay offer help to buy much needed equipment that is not available on the NHS such as car seats, lycra suits and feeding aids. We are currently helping 30 families on a regular basis and have covered nearly 1000 trips since we began.

How this cause brings people in the community together

The help we offer can sometimes allow parents to spend precious time with their children that they wouldn't have had due to financial restraints, time for some which is so precious, it also allows families to be able to be together at the worst of times and maybe allow dad and siblings to visit mum and the poorly child which they couldn't have done without our help, we keep families together.