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03.06.2025
At Tŷ Hafan, there are lots of ways you can support our life-changing services as a volunteer, from working in one of our shops, to helping at events, directly supporting our families or supporting u
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Fair and sustainable funding
02.06.2025
Wales’ two children’s hospices are calling on all Welsh political parties to pledge to stand up for children with life-shortening conditions ahead of this year’s national Children’s Hospice We
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An Everest Base Camp Adventure for Tŷ Hafan
29.05.2025
On 24th April 2025, Greg’s Snowdog and I reached Everest Base Camp, writes bereaved dad Paul Fears, reflecting on his most recent fundraising challenge for Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice as Fath
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Introducing Tŷ Hafan’s All Stars hockey captain for 2025
28.05.2025
Scott has been playing ice hockey for three years and first played for the Tŷ Hafan ice hockey team at the All Stars charity event in 2022. What made you want to get involved in the All Stars charity
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A space to be a teenager at Tŷ Hafan
27.05.2025
Being a teenager can be a challenging and exciting time. If you’re a teenager with complex needs, like the young people supported by Tŷ Hafan, things are even more complicated and come with a u
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08.07.2022
“I feel like I am doing something positive”
It was exciting to go to last week’s Welsh Youth Parliament meeting as I got to socialise and meet people in the flesh for once, rather than just over Zoom. One of them I know pretty well already, my friend...
Family friday
01.07.2022
‘This is the hardest thing I have ever done’
You can find out more about the challenge the team have set themselves here: 5in55.co.uk/meet-the-participants We’ve been following their progress on our social media feeds and here are just a few additional photos they’ve taken along the way: Setting off...
Family friday
24.06.2022
“We’ll be suffering for 55 hours, our children go through so much more”. Tŷ Hafan dad Matt shares his thoughts on the 10nTaff
By day, Matt Evans from Swansea, is a vehicles trainer for the DVLA in Swansea. Every other hour of the day, when he’s not helping wife Fiona to care for their three children Aubree, 7, five-year-old Darcy and Oakley, 3,...
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23.06.2022
Tŷ Hafan is our lifeline and has helped us the most
Ahead of Children’s Hospice Week, we caught up with them again last month to see how their lives have progressed. “We moved into our home in Usk just over a year ago to be near family,” says Khloe. “Since...
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23.06.2022
The principality charity shop challenge
The Challenge has seen staff from Principality branches across south Wales partnering and volunteering in our Tŷ Hafan shops, and similarly with Tŷ Gobaith in north Wales, with the goal of generating sales and raising awareness of Children’s Hospice Week...
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23.06.2022
Tŷ Hafan and Tŷ Gobaith Host Drop-in Session for Members of the Senedd
The event, which was a drop-in session for Members to meet with representatives from Wales’ only two children’s hospices, was an opportunity to discuss our services, the challenges the families we support are facing amidst the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and...
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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...
Family friday
17.06.2022
Three cheers for principality’s Welsh 3 Peaks team!
What inspired you to do the Three Peaks Challenge for Tŷ Hafan Savita: Tŷ Hafan is very important to us as a family, I lost my nephew back in 2004 when he was just four years old. He was in...
Family friday
10.06.2022
Going the Distance for Tŷ Hafan
In 2017 I did my first ‘challenge’ if you like. I had just had my first daughter Jessica, I was overweight and hadn’t really done much exercise since injury stopped me playing rugby. James arranged a big group of colleagues...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
