Jacks Little Stars Appeal

Aims of the Charity

• To relieve the needs of terminally ill children and their families in particular by providing items, facilities, help and support
  
• To relieve the needs of families who have been bereaved by the loss of their child and to promote the good health by providing time and support for their grieving.

WITH YOUR HELP AND GENEROSITY WE WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Provide grants to families with children with cancer
  
  
• Provide grants to families of children who are terminal
  
  
• Provide grants to bereaved parents
  
  
• Purchase two caravans
  One for children battling with cancer
  One for families that have been bereaved so that they can grieve in a quiet location
  
  
• Help as much as we can to try and make life easier for the family as a unit while they face this powerful battle with a disease that there is still no cure for  and that affects one in three people worldwide.

We also want to support other worthwhile causes and provide them with help towards their aims of helping children and their families.

About the Charity

Setting up this charity has been very painful for all those involved, having been told that my son had cancer and then to watch him take his last breath 22 months later is the most devastating experience that any parent could go through. Making the decision to let him go was not an easy decision but in my heart as a mother I knew that there was nothing else I could do, I could not make him better and all my love for him would not have saved him, if it was he would still be here and we would have perfect lives.

Sadly we are not on our own, attending the royal Manchester children’s hospital we got to meet so many nice people and they became part of our family and we to got to know other parents whose children were diagnosed with all different types of cancer and sadly some of those children passed to the other side and they were all amazing the courage and strength they had and the parents were fantastic, I realized after jack died that we were in a position to help with having the experience of the hospital being our home for nearly two years, we saw what lifted these children through the grueling treatment and made them smile and how jack reacted to the treats, it gives them a boost and to see them smile is amazing. If it was not for other charities then I would not have been left with some precious memories of jack and knowing that he had plenty of smiles before he passed away to the angels.

As well as being emotionally drained you also become financially drained, with hospital visits and of course guilt, guilt that it your own child who has been given this cruel and horrendous disease and not you, you have to watch them hooked up to machines with chemotherapy pumping through their bodies, watching them be sick, lose their hair and feeling miserable because they should be out playing, going to school, being normal children and so all you want to do is shower your child not just with love but with toys anything to help them get through this ordeal because in your mind you do not know how long you are going to be blessed with your child.

I  hope you can understand the need for giving these children smiles and helping the families financially as this takes some of the pressure of the situation that they are facing, Please help us in helping these children and their families fight the battle against cancer. The rewards are outstanding,  just seeing these children smile is the biggest reward of all. 

Details of who we will be supporting will be available soon.

Thank you from all at Jacks Little Stars Appeal