Acorns Children's Hospice

Infobox Organization
name = Acorns Children’s Hospice


formation = 1983
motto=Care for the child, support for the family
type=Registered charity
purpose= To provide palliative care
region_served= West Midlands
website = http://www.acorns.org.uk/

Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust is a registered charity, offering a network of care to life-limited children and support for their families across the West Midlands, United Kingdom. Acorns has three hospices, situated in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester as well as a Community Team that offer support to families in their homes. The catchment area for the Hospices is the counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and the West Midlands as well as parts of Staffordshire and Shropshire.

Installations

Hospices

* Acorns in Birmingham; location: Selly Oak; opened 1988
* Acorns in the Black Country; location: Walsall; opened 1999
* Acorns in the Three Counties; location: Worcester; opened 2005

Stores

The Trust runs 39 stores across the "Heart of England." Acorns has the largest retail chain among children’s hospices and last year they raised over £669,000. [cite web |url=http://www.acorns.org.uk/Our_shops.asp |title=Our Shops |publisher=Acorns |accessdate=2008-07-31] The Trust is opening up a store in Aldridge to raise money for the Trust. The store opens on 1 August 2008.

Aston Villa partnership

Aston Villa football club has supported "Acorns" since 2006 and has already paid for 230-days worth of hospice care. Several players have visited the children and families who use Acorns. Acorns highlighted the need for further assistance to aid the extra 1000 children in the local area who needed the assistance of Acorns. Aston Villa responded by offering a platform to advertise the Hospice to a wider audience. On 7 July 2008, the club unveiled the kit for the 2008–09 season which has the Acorns logo in the position associated with the main kit sponsor. An Acorns spokesperson said "We are absolutely delighted that our logo will be seen at every home and away match during the 2008-09 season, helping to raise awareness of our work and of the constant need by all children’s hospices to fundraise. This really is the beginning of an amazing partnership, believed to be the first of its kind in the Premier League." [cite web |url=http://www.acorns.org.uk/astonvilla/Press%20realease%20Aston%20Villa%20Kit%20Unveil%207%207%208.pdf |title=Kit unveiling press release |publisher=Acorns |date=2008-07-07 |accessdate=2008-07-31 |format=PDF]

References

* [http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Intro/0,,10265,00.html Aston Villa F.C. page on Acorns]
* [http://www.acorns.org.uk/ Hospice website]