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20.06.2022
Children’s Hospice Week starts today and this year’s theme is #ForTheChildren
Today marks the start of a busy Children’s Hospice Week, the one week of the year when there is a sustained focus on the work of all 54 children’s hospices throughout the UK, including Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith in...
23.05.2022
15 years after I first came here as a child, I’m a nurse working at Tŷ Hafan
International Nurses Day is an international day observed around the world on 12 May each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society. Tŷ Hafan’s 80-strong care team includes specialist palliative care nurses, healthcare support assistants, complementary therapists,...
27.04.2022
Tŷ Hafan’s weddings day event – for dresses that, quite literally, don’t cost the earth
Our Tŷ Hafan charity shop in Abergavenny has a dedicated bridal wear section and on Saturday 30 April will be hosting a special wedding-themed day to launch the huge range of new and preloved stock now in store. Our volunteer...
27.04.2022
Greenfingers opens new sensory garden at tŷ hafan children’s hospice
Designed by multi-RHS gold medal-winning garden designers, Victoria Wade Landscapes; brought to life by NP Landscapes; and project managed by Joe Wade, this new interactive sensory garden space – funded by The National Heritage Lottery, The Postcode Lottery and many...
15.04.2022
Superted becomes Tŷ Hafan’s newest celebrity ambassador
In the coming weeks and months, SuperTed will be on a very special mission for Tŷ Hafan, flying around Wales with the aid of his secret magic word and his friend Spotty and his cosmic dust, to help support our...
07.04.2022
daffodils and tulips add welcome splash of colour
March arrived and we celebrated St David’s Day with a wonderful show of daffodils dancing in the breeze. The tulips came out too – adding another welcome splash of colour to the hospice gardens. What a sight and one that...
23.03.2022
tŷ hafan and tŷ gobaith welcomes the welsh government bereavement grant announcement
On Friday 18 March, Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith welcomed the news that our hospices have been successful in our respective applications to the Welsh Government’s Bereavement Grant. Of the £3million made available by the Government, Tŷ Hafan will receive...
08.03.2022
Principality donates £100,000 to its two charity partners
Colleagues at the largest building society in Wales voted overwhelmingly to support the two charities, who provide paediatric palliative care for hundreds of children across Wales and the borders each year. Tŷ Hafan, who are based in south Wales, and...
15.02.2022
new morrisons charity partnership with together for short lives and tŷ hafan
Together for Short Lives is the only charity supporting children’s hospices across the UK, including Tŷ Hafan, and families they work with who face the heartbreak that their child may die at a young age. Together for Short Lives and...
25.01.2022
Extra funding from government a “lifeline for children and families” – wales’ children’s hospices
Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith children’s hospices welcome the announcement from the Minister, which outlined an additional allocation of £888,000 per annum in government funding, jointly between the two hospices on a recurring basis. The hospices have also welcomed the...
17.01.2022
welsh youth parliament’s #spotlighton tŷ hafan
In July, we received the exciting news that Tŷ Hafan had been successful in its application to become a partner organisation to the Welsh Youth Parliament (WYP) – the UK’s first parliament ran for, and by, young people in Wales...
04.01.2022
top poets’ works in new anthology for tŷ hafan
Professor Tony Curtis edited the anthology, entitled Where the Birds Sing Our Names, after seeing first-hand how Tŷ Hafan offers comfort, care and support to children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families. The book, which is available...