There are now 12 hospitals providing the Cash Gift from Josies Dragonfly Trust to children & teenagers where treatment is no longer curative.
On average we get 2 requests each week for the Cash Gift

The other 11 hospitals can not have regular access to the Cash Gift as we just don't have the funds to support them. Sadly the children in those hospitals who qualify for this special Gift cant wait.
They do not have time.


We have given 150 Cash Gifts since we started.
Many more children across the UK qualified but we did not have the funds to support them.
This year please help us give more of these kids the chance to make one more happy memory.


Here are just a few examples of how the cash gift has made a difference to the last days or weeks of children & young people with cancer:

• To buy a wedding dress for a young woman.


• Special breaks for families to make some special memories while they are together


• Nintendo & games for a young lad confined to his home.


• For a young boy to buy presents for his family and baby bother.


• For a double bed so a single mum could sleep next to her young son to comfort him.


• For laptops so teenagers can keep in touch with friends at university through msn.


• For a very special birthday party.


• For young people to buy parting gifts for their loved ones.


• To buy video cameras for families to keep treasured memories.


• For a teenager to spend precious time with her mum at a spa.


• For a young people to achieve some personal goals.
  


• For a young man to treat his extended family to a big family meal out.


• A couple of requests have been for driving lessons.


• For a special secret garden.


• To take friends to as many Aston Villa games as possible.


• To help a teenager finish his model railway project.


• Money to spend on toys and treats to try and bring a little happiness to each day.


• To buy designer shoes, left to a sister as a treasured possession.


• For a young man to take his fiance on a special holiday,


• To pay for a very special potrait for a young girl & her family


• For a very musical young lad to buy & learn to play a new instrument


• To help make a secret garden.


• To drive around a race track


• To buy a Camera


• several holiday breaks at ceterparks


• For simple outings to make memories for brothers & sisters.

These are the hospitals across the UK where Children with Cancer have benefited from the boxes of Crafts & Activities that we are sending out as often as possible.


The 6th shipment of boxes full of Crafts & Activities was sent out in Sep 2009 and we are now getting boxes ready for our 7th delivery in the spring.

• St. James University Hospital


• Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust


• Birmingham Children’s Hospital


• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust


• Royal Aberdeen ChildrenHospital


• Royal Manchester ChildrenHospital


• University College Hospital London


• Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust


• Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester


• The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust


• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham


• Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh


• Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust


• Yorkhill Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow


• Royal Liverpool Children’ NHSTrust


• John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford


• University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust


• QueensMedical Centre, Nottingham


• Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children


• Sheffield Children’s Hospital


• The Royal London Hospital


• Bristol Royal Hospital for Children


• The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle


• And because most things come in dozens we also give a box to Newcastle General Hospital where Josie had her second Bone Marrow Transplant.