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Additional £24,000 needed to cover the rise in fuel costs

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£5 could go towards covering rising fuel costs, ensuring isolated families can be reached.

What if we couldn't drive a seriously ill child that needs transport to a critical operation?

Or if we couldn’t give distressed siblings the only opportunity they have to visit their very sick brother or sister in hospital?

What about if we couldn’t reach families in very remote, rural and isolated locations in the country?

And if fuel prices meant we couldn't support the hundreds of seriously ill children and their parents, who are struggling alone?

With the current crisis causing a large rise in fuel costs, these may soon be reality and a number of seriously ill children and their families may be unable to receive the vital support they desperately need.

We urgently need an additional £24,000 to cover this rising cost.

Thanks to supporters like you when a seriously ill child requires urgent care or a time-critical operation Family Support Workers can provide prompt and dependable transport, helping to ensure they are on time when it matters most.

However, we need your donation to ensure this can continue. With your donation we can ensure that families with seriously ill children who do not have access to a car and depend on their Family Support Worker for essential transport can reach vital hospital appointments safely and reliably.

With your support families living in remote, rural, or isolated areas, often far away from other support, can continue to receive support from their Family Support Worker, who provides not only practical help but also a reassuring presence during challenging times.

Your gift could mean Family Support Workers are able to take siblings, who are distressed and worried, to visit their seriously ill brother or sister in hospital giving them the opportunity to stay connected and share family time.

It could also mean brothers and sisters can be picked up from school by their Family Support Worker while their parents remain at the hospital with their seriously ill child, helping to maintain a sense of routine and stability, and ensuring their seriously ill brother or sister is not alone in hospital.

Together, with your help and the community of wonderful supporters, we can achieve all this, we can be there for seriously ill children and their families that need help right now. Please donate today.

What we do

In 2026, Rainbow Trust celebrates 40 years of supporting seriously ill children and their families through some of the most challenging moments of their lives. Now, more than ever, this work must continue.

For 40 years, Rainbow Trust has pioneered standing alongside families facing the unimaginable, caring for a terminally ill child.

In the darkest and most uncertain moments of their lives, Rainbow Trust continues to be a lifeline, offering not just practical help but deep emotional support that wraps around the entire family.

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