About the Charities

Clare House

Located in Bebington on the Wirral, Claire House is a bright, vibrant place of hope. In addition to caring for our children and young adults, we also focus on the needs of the whole family, providing bereavement and other support for as long as it is needed. With no guaranteed government funding we need to raise in excess of £2.5 million each year to maintain our present levels of service.

Our specialist nursing team also work in the community through our ‘Hospice to Home’ programme which offers paediatric palliative care in the family home.  With a hospice to home service also operating from our Liverpool office we are now reaching more families than in previous years and hope to see this grow in other areas too.

Josh’s Jumps

A BIKE track built in memory of a Chester schoolboy killed in a collision

The Queens Road community track in Vicars Cross – called Josh’s Jumps – was built in memory of 12-year-old Christleton High School student Josh Easton died in October 2008 as a fitting memorial to the talented cyclist.

Josh’s mum Jo Easton, 39, of Oldfield Drive, Vicars Cross said: “He loved being out on his bike with friends, and so to be able to provide the young people of the area a safe and fun place to enjoy while having fun on their bikes will be a fitting tribute and memorial to our son.”

Jo and husband Steve approached Great Boughton Parish Council with their idea shortly after Josh’s death and by the summer Josh’s Project Committee was formed – comprised of family, friends, and representatives of the parish council, Cheshire West and Chester Council, the police, Connexions and Square One Youth Club – with the target of raising £37,000 for the track.

Miles of Smiles

The Miles of Smiles Appeal was launched through Chronicle Newspapers in Chester in 1992 to send sick, disabled and under-privileged children from Chester and district, Wirral and North Wales on the trip of a lifetime.

Over the past 16 years a dedicated Committee of volunteers together with an army of Individuals, groups, organisations and businesses have helped raise almost three quarters of a million pounds to help make dreams come true for hundreds of families. As well as funding annual trips to Disneyland Paris and Lapland we have supported other local Charities and special schools and helped change many lives for the better.

We know from all the feedback that we receive that the trips are something these children benefit from greatly and remember forever. We are very proud of the work we do, but it is entirely due to the generosity of individuals, groups, associations and businesses that year after year do all sorts of weird and wonderful things to raise funds for the appeal.

Everyone involved in the Appeal works entirely on a voluntary basis so every penny donated or raised goes directly towards the next Disneyland Paris Trip.

Scouts Association

The Scout Association provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for 400,000 young people aged 6-25. Internationally, we have over 28 million young people enjoying the benefits of Scouting  across 216 countries. Personal development means promoting the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual well-being of the individual, helping them achieve their full potential. In Scouting, we believe that young people develop most when they are ‘learning by doing,’ when they are given responsibility, work in teams, take acceptable risks and think for themselves.