Supporting our Diana Service

Our Diana Children’s Community Service has stood strong as a pillar of support for children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions. We help support the service by funding:

Happy Blankets, Boxes and Love Cushions:

These are cushion covers that are individually created by each child. Each cushion has a little pocket so the children can share notes with family members even if you are away from them with another child. The boxes allow the children to leave a note in their personalised box to say what is worrying them if they are struggling to openly say it out loud.

Therapeutic Stories:

Each child is given the materials to draw and write their own story of how they see what is affecting them. Their story is then laminated and bound for them to keep at the end of discharge and shared parents.

Happy Bags:

Happy bags are cotton draw string bags that the children will decorate during one of these sessions, there will be some things added throughout the session such as a note pad, pencil, stickers. The purpose of the happy bag is for the children to use when they are feeling anxious and distracted.

All about me book:

The ‘all about me book’ is the starting point for sessions, these work sheets help us get to know the children, what they like/dislike, what they understand about the medical condition/treatment etc. The worksheets are laminated and bound into a book for the children to share and keep.