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Together for Short Lives are thrilled to announce that in recognition of Dame Liz Fradd’s contribution to the children’s palliative care sector, we will be launching a professional award in her name at our UK Conference in May 2025. The...

Caring for a child who is going to have a short life can be incredibly isolating because your friends and family don’t really understand what you’re going through. That’s why having bespoke care and support provided by children’s hospices and...

Thousands of families whose children need palliative care face a postcode lottery as to whether they receive it. This is reducing their choice and control and is causing unnecessary and unplanned emergency admissions to hospital among children and young people...

On Wednesday 11 September, we headed to BGC Partners’ London HQ for their annual BGC Charity Day, to raise money for our Butterfly Fund.

Meet Adrian. 35 years old and hailing from Bedfordshire, Adrian took on a new challenge last month for a very special reason. We caught up with him to find out more about the challenge, what drives him, and how he...

In what would have been his son’s sixth birthday month, Andy, from The Wirral, will be a few thousand metres above us in an epic fundraising challenge in memory of his little boy Charlie.