Family support

In the last decade, the number of families being referred to Rainbow Trust and needing our support has doubled. There are now more families than ever struggling to cope when their child is ill. For...

Ahead of the General Election on 12 December, we are calling on all political parties to commit to improve support for families where a child has a life threatening or terminal illness. We believe the...

Dad Godfrey Haire, whose family are supported by Rainbow Trust, has just completed a year of gruelling challenges to raise funds for us. Godfrey and his friend Paul Taylor finished their epic year wit...

Angie has been at Rainbow Trust for 3 years and shares one of her working weeks with us. Monday I visited a mum whose seven-month-old baby had died. She is struggling most days as her husband wo...

Ali’s 12-week pregnancy scan revealed that one of their twins, Marlowe, was at high risk of having Down’s syndrome and that she had a hole in her heart. This heart condition made it difficult for M...

When doctors found a tumour in her son’s liver, Marte found it difficult to cope. This is her story. When Fabian, my son, was two and a half, he was seriously unwell but specialists and doctors told...