Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service is a local charity that provides specialist care and vital support to babies, children, and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families, across Berkshire and into surrounding counties.

Our children’s hospice service is free of charge for families, but it costs over £3 million a year just to maintain our current level of care. With very minimal government funding, our charity is almost entirely reliant on donations, fundraising and gifts in Wills to meet the costs of running our service. This means every penny donated makes a huge difference to those we support.

We currently support over 200 children and their families, but we are committed to growing our service and reaching out to every child and family that needs us. In Berkshire alone, we know that there are an estimated 1,371 children with life-limiting conditions. Research shows that this number will increase by at least a further 11% by 2030.