If you’re looking for a way to honour the memory of a loved one while making sure no family lives their child’s short life alone, Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice is now taking registrations for its 2025 Walk to Remember.
Starting at 7am on the morning on Saturday 6 September this beautiful morning coastal walk, which is kindly sponsored by Cabot, will take participants from Barry Island to the Cold Knap and back again. At approximately four miles / 7km, this walk offers a shared activity through which the lives of loved ones can be remembered while raising money for Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice.
The route is wheelchair and pushchair friendly, anyone of any age can take part and dogs on leads are welcome too.
The event was launched last year and feedback from 2024 participants includes:
“This was my first event for Tŷ Hafan and I am really impressed. Everyone was so friendly and the organisers made sure no one felt left out. At the check points suitable reminders were given about the next stage as well as some background information about the area.”
“I loved the beautiful coastal path which I hadn’t walked before and meeting some very lovely people.”
Entry costs £10 per person (£5 for three to 17-year-olds) and individual participants are asked to raise a minimum of £100 in sponsorship, or £200 if they sign up as a family.
“With your registration you’ll get a fundraising pack and the full support of the Tŷ Hafan team to help you reach your fundraising target,” says James Davies-Hale.
“You’ll also get a hot drink on arrival to start you off on your walk, a well earned hot breakfast roll when you finish the walk at Marco’s Cafe and a Tŷ Hafan technical t-shirt when you raise £100.
“This beautiful, gentle, life-affirming event is about love, respect, togetherness and community and whether you choose to do the walk in silence or in shared stories, you will know that every step is a tribute to love that never fades.”
To sign up go to: Tŷ Hafan’s Walk To Remember Tŷ Hafan’s Walk To Remember
- Tŷ Hafan is one of only two children’s hospices in Wales.
- HRH The Princess of Wales is Patron of Tŷ Hafan.
- Life-shortened means that the child or young person is not expected to live beyond 18 years old. The average age of a child referred to Tŷ Hafan between 2019 and 2024 was two years old.
- Last year Tŷ Hafan supported more than 750 families.
- Currently Tŷ Hafan is only able to help 1 in 10 families who need our help.
- When a child’s life will be short no family should have to live it on their own.
- Tŷ Hafan provides specialist palliative care addressing the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of each member of the family. From diagnosis to bereavement, Tŷ Hafan is there for the family as long as they need us, through life, death and beyond.
- Tŷ Hafan offers families end-of-life care, and services such as family support, complementary therapy, music therapy and outreach play both within the hospice and in the family home.
- A child and his/her family can be referred to Tŷ Hafan at the time of diagnosis with care and support being provided throughout the course of the child’s condition, which can be for many years.
- The children and young people who access Tŷ Hafan’s services suffer from a broad range of conditions, many with profound and complex medical needs. Some of the conditions are so rare they haven’t been named.
- Last year it cost Tŷ Hafan £6.5m to provide our care services to children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families at our hospice in Sully (near Cardiff) and in homes and community settings across Wales.
- Only 13% of those costs were covered by recurring statutory funding.
- More than 80% of Tŷ Hafan’s care costs are generated by donations from the generous public in Wales and beyond, via a range of fundraising activities – including community and corporate events, legacies, and its commercial activities such as its lottery and shops.
- 77p of every £1 we spend is spent on children and families – excluding expenditure on trading activity.
- For more information and to make a donation go to www.tyhafan.org