Tŷ Hafan

“Thousands of families in Wales live each day knowing it could be their child’s last. “Together, we can make sure that no family has to face this alone.” Over the next few weeks, you might see our adverts featuring Alfi and Ollie either on TV or on social media so keep your eyes peeled and let us know if you spot it! We’re determined to make sure that people in Wales know how much we need their support so that no family has to live their child’s short life alone. Thank you as always for your incredible support – we simply could not do what we do without you. Find out more here > https://bit.ly/3YbBP67 #ChildrensHospice #ChildrensHospiceWales #TyHafan

Could your business spare a van and some volunteers to support our Christmas tree collections this festive season? 🎄 We’re looking for volunteers to help with Christmas tree recycling collections post-Christmas, in the Bridgend, Porthcawl and Pencoed areas (you can still help even if you don’t have the van) as we need lots of volunteers. This offers a fantastic opportunity for team building, making a difference in your community and branching out (get it 😉) from your usual office environment. A big thank you to Sinclair Group, who have already committed to support with two of their vans! If you’d like to get involved, please contact Kelly Dibble for a chat. #CorporatePartners

October is Menopause Awareness month; which aims to break taboos and improve women’s health and wellbeing by raising awareness about the symptoms of menopause and the support options available.    At Tŷ Hafan, our workforce is 84% female, so it was important that we marked the month with a variety of events to support our employees 💚 At the start of the month, we welcomed Carolyn Harris to give an inspirational talk about her personal experience with Menopause. Carolyn also shared more about her role as an MP and ensuring that Menopause remains a key issue on the political agenda.     We followed up Carolyn’s talk by inviting Joanne Crovini, Workplace Wellbeing Specialist to share tips and tricks to help us with nutrition during Menopause, and how simple dietary changes improve energy, mood, stress resilience, hormone balance and day-to-day wellbeing.    As we have colleagues across retail who may not be able to attend in person, it’s important that they’re also able to access these resources. Both talks were shared, and mini menopause workshops were held via Teams across the week for colleagues to join when best suited them.    #Menopause #MenopauseAwareness

Super sisters, Molly and Rosie from Cardiff recently took on their first ever triathlon in memory of their cousin who was cared for by Tŷ Hafan 💚 It was their first-ever triathlon - and they raised an incredible £2,242. Molly said, “Our initial target was £1000 but we kept raising it and were blown away by everyone's generous donations!” Thank you so much to Molly and Rosie for their amazing effort! 🤩 #Fundraising #CommunityFundraising

We recently welcomed some of the incredible Morrisons Community Champions who have put their absolute all into fundraising over £200,000 for Tŷ Hafan during their three-year partnership with Together for Short Lives, which is shortly coming to an end 💚 The Champions caught up over some tea and cake, had a tour of the hospice and were then joined by our CEO Irfon Rees, with whom they shared what the partnership has meant to them and their fundraising highlights. We then presented the Champions with a Gold Leaf on our ‘Giving Tree’, to commemorate our incredible partnership. We simply cannot say ‘thank you’ enough to the Morrisons Community Champions, for their phenomenal fundraising and the heart and soul they put into achieving it 💚 #CommunityChampions #Community

Yesterday, we celebrated ‘Shwmae Su’mae Day’, which is a day dedicated to having fun and sharing the Welsh language 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And as you can see Savanah-Bleu loved being serenaded in Welsh by the very talented Heather and Carla 🎶 #ShwmaeSumaeDay #ChildrensHospice

Today we sported our funniest, biggest and funkiest hats to take part in ‘Hats on for Children's Palliative Care Day’, an international day to raise awareness of the compassionate work of children’s hospice and palliative care services worldwide 🎩 👒 🧢 Why the hats you may ask...? To highlight that there's no one 'hat' that fits children's palliative care - it needs to be tailored to each child and family's needs. Plus, parents, caregivers and professionals who care for children with life-shortening illnesses have to wear different 'hats' all the time. We’d love to see your 'hats on' pics in the comments! 🤩 #HatsOn4CPC #ChildrensPalliativeCare

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay, and this year’s theme is workplace mental health. The theme highlights the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, for the benefit of people, organisations and communities.    We want our hospice, offices and shops to be healthy workplaces, and employee wellbeing is central to this. We're proud to have dedicated Wellbeing Champions (who are accredited Mental Health First Aiders), across our Care, Head Office and Retail Teams who are always on hand to support anyone, whenever they may need it. Our Wellbeing Champions also deliver wellbeing activities throughout the year, which foster an inclusive and open environment where employees are encouraged to speak freely about their mental health. Today, we launched our wellbeing platform which has lots of helpful resources, benefits and services, from a 24/7 helpline from Health Assured that provides wellbeing and mental health support to a Wellbeing Toolkit that includes guided exercises to support your mental health. We're continuously working to create a safe and inclusive culture in which employees are empowered to speak up and ask for help. So, take the time out of your working day to grab a cuppa and check in with a colleague today! #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #WellbeingAtWork

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all our incredible runners who took on the Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday 💚👏🥰 We’re beyond grateful that over 200 of you chose to #RunTyHafan, and we were filled with pride cheering every one of you along the route! 🥰 Together, you’ve raised a phenomenal £70,000 and counting! Your amazing fundraising will make the biggest difference in making sure that no family in Wales has to face their child’s short life alone 💚 Is it too soon to ask if you’re in for next year? Our 2025 spaces are now live > https://bit.ly/3tpUqPm Or take a look at this year's photos on Facebook here > https://bit.ly/3YfNr80 #CardiffHalf #CardiffHalfMarathon

Eeeeekkkk the big day is almost here! Tomorrow, we have over 200 incredible runners taking on the iconic Cardiff Half Marathon for Tŷ Hafan! 💚 And Heather, Carla and Marshall wanted to say the biggest ‘GOOD LUCK/POB LWC’ to every one of you! You've got this! 💪 We’re beyond grateful that you’ve chosen to #RunTyHafan and support your local children’s hospice. Your incredible fundraising will help make sure that no family in Wales faces their child’s short life alone 💚 We'll be there cheering you on across the route... look out for us around mile 2 (Penarth Road), mile 6 (Cardiff Bay), and mile 10 (Roath Park Lake) 📣 We’ll see you at the event village bright and early! 😄 #CardiffHalf #CardiffHalfMarathon #CardiffHalf