The Shooting Star Children’s Hospice provides care, support and advice for children and young people with life-limiting
conditions and their families. These care services are offered free of charge to families, 365 days a year.
Shooting Star opened in 2005 and now supports 250 families. The care services are based around the needs of the whole
family, so as well as caring for the children and young people, there are activities and support groups for siblings, parents
and other relatives.
Families benefit from Shooting Star’s care services in the community, in their own homes and at Shooting Star
House, the purpose-built facility based in Hampton, Middlesex. These services include Short Breaks (respite care), Day Care,
Outreach Care, Family Support and Therapies and End of Life Care.
It costs £3 million every year (£8,000 a day) to maintain the care services offered by Shooting Star, and with no long-term
statutory funding, the majority of this comes from voluntary donations, fundraising activities and events.
This wonderful organisation have asked if you could send any donations you want make
to the usual fan club address (MBFC, P O Box 2073, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3WS) by cheque/postal/money order to "The
Shooting Star Children's Hospice", rather than doing it through the website. We can then forward them for the attention
of a representative so they know they came from Michael's fans.
