Come and get your Christmas presents wrapped at Clapham Junction on the 4th December!🎁 We’ll be on Platform 9 with our incredible volunteers from MLC Partners, who are generously giving their time to wrap Christmas presents and raise funds for Shooting Star🙌🩵

Come and visit us at London Waterloo!🎶 We’re delighted to be joining the amazing Rock Choir on the 2nd December, to spread some festive cheer and raise vital funds for Shooting Star. Enjoy the music, soak up the Christmas spirit, and support a great cause🎄✨

Every child should have a chance to meet Santa🎅🎄 Your support means that children and families under our care won't miss out on the magic of Christmas this year➡️ https://www.shootingstar.org.uk/how-you-can-help/every-child-deserves-a-chance-to-meet-santa/

There may be some minor ho-ho-holdups in Richmond on Saturday 6 December as hundreds of cycling Santas take to the streets once again! Njinga are back with their 13th Annual Santa Cycle - and YOU can be part of it. Sign up now ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fDfPd and be part of this annual festive event! 🎅 🚴‍♂️

Some of our wonderful volunteers have been hard at work today putting tinfoil on the windows at Shooting Star House. But can you guess why?  (👽⁉️)

A HUGE thank you to everyone who took part in The Knit Before Christmas - we've had over 800 amazing knits: hundreds of Christmas puddings alongside Santa hats, reindeers and so much more. Now who wants one? Buy at a local fair ➡️ https://bit.ly/4oWOmoB  Buy on our website ➡️ https://bit.ly/4nAzye4

Join us on 1 December at All Saints Church, Hampton, for Light up a Star. Together, we’ll celebrate the lives of loved ones through poetry, music, and reflection, as we light our lanterns to remember the light of those no longer with us. 🌟 https://www.shootingstar.org.uk/event/light-up-a-star/

Happy Halloween! We've spookified Shooting Star House with these amazingly artistic pumpkins decorated by supported young people at yesterday's Youth Connect.  Wishing you all an evening of many treats and not too many tricks! 🎃

The countdown is on🗓️🎄 If you're feeling organised, why not support Shooting Star by picking up some Christmas cards ready for the festive season! We have lots of different designs to choose from, all available online and in our shops🛍️➡️ www.shootingstar.org.uk/product-cate...

Happy Diwali to all those celebrating this week, which includes many amongst our supported families, volunteers and staff. We are marking the occasion at both Christopher's and Shooting Star House, with lots of lights to help banish the darkness, and diya lamps for people to take home. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

A treat for all the senses this weekend at the first @surreyhillsent.bsky.social Fire and Food Fair! Visit our stall to learn how you can support our work.  Live cooking demos, artisan food and much s'more awaits you! 🔥🥩 

Orange you all amazing!🍊 Thanks to your generous donations we have over £500 to spend in our Chocolate Orange collection pot. So with Tesco running a £1 clubcard promotion, we did a quick run to our local stores and left with a cart full of oranges (and a few strange looks from other shoppers... 😆)

This week marks #HospiceCareWeek🩵 This year's theme is #MoreThanYouThink, and we want to shine a light on one of our incredible cooks, Donna. Donna has been cooking delicious meals for children, families, staff and volunteers at our Guildford hospice for over 20 years, and

Sign up to a regular monthly gift via our website in October and receive a free Shooting Star 2026 diary! ⭐   By pledging a regular gift, you can help us to plan outstanding support for every family that we care for and provide security for our future➡️ https://www.shootingstar.org.uk/donate

Yesterday we held our first National Child Death Summit. Thank you so much to our colleagues from children’s hospices, charities and our local and national partners, for coming together to understand what we can do together to reduce health inequalities in children’s palliative care.

To close our Summit, Lisa Dennis, our Director of Care, introduces an opportunity for hospices to work together to help hospice care reach all the families that need it.

Now it’s the chance for our expert panel to answer audience questions from the day so far.

Bereaved Dad Paul explaining very movingly about how having bereavement care from Shooting Star is helping him after the sudden death of his daughter Erin.

Lisa and Sarah share the Shooting Star model of specialist bereavement care, which has meant an additional 219 families have been able to access the care they need.

Aisha Peters, bereaved mother of Damali, talks to Alison about what it was like to navigate grief without specialist bereavement support.

Our internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, Professor Julia Downing delivers the first session on how to influence global change in managing health inequalities.

We’re delighted to welcome 79 organisations, including 34 children’s hospices, to our first National Child Death Summit. Today we'll be sharing our new collaborative pathway of bereavement care, hearing from expert speakers and discussing how we can end inequalities in accessing bereavement care.

Hello Bluesky! We’ve joined this platform to discuss the vital role of children’s hospices and share how we do more to support families than many people realise. Today is also a great day to begin our #Bluesky journey as we have another first today as well…