Kites Corner
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The James Hopkins Trust ... there for the people of Gloucester and their nursing needs ...
The James Hopkins Trust is a charity which provides practical help for severely disabled, life threatened and life limited young children with nursing needs, aged 5 years and under, throughout Gloucester and Gloucestershire.
James Hopkins was born in Gloucester Royal Hospital on the 17th of September 1987, but his life was cut tragically short and he died on the 29th May 1989 from an infection.
James' life may have been short but it was not without purpose. The Trust was born out of James' memory and became a registered charity (No. 1000870) on 11th November 1990.
Over the years The James Hopkins Trust has helped over 300 children and families, with their charitable organisation in every corner of Gloucester and beyond, with over 100,000 hours of nursing and care. All of these nursing hours are donated free to those that needed it.
The aim of the Trust is to help severely disabled, life threatened and life limited young children aged 0 - 5 years in Gloucester and throughout Gloucestershire, so that the quality of their lives may be enriched.
The Trust's aims are …
- The provision of domiciliary and residential respite nursing care
- The provision of equipment specially adapted to the needs of the individual child
- The provision of financial help for visits to specialist hospitals outside Gloucestershire
The James Hopkins Trust, like all worthwhile Gloucester charities, are always looking for donations and sponsors for their local charitable organisation.
Contact Vance Hopkins
on
01452 612216
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Thank You.
latest reviews
âShe [the nurse] spends eight hours a month with Owain, mainly in the evenings and at weekends which allows Chris and I to slip out for a stolen few hours at the cinema or a pub meal, reminding us that we are husband and wife again! If it wasnât for the Trust many marriages/relationships would be put under much greater strain. This simple but effective lifeline that the Trust has thrown us is one that we grasped with open arms from day one and we will never forget the help youâve given us in these challenging early years. So a huge thank you to the Trust.â
âAt the James Hopkins Trust, I began talking to other mums whose children were older than mine and who had already faced some of the emotional challenges we were going through. They made me feel welcome immediately but, above all, showed me that having a disabled child isnât as bleak as I had first believed. There is still so much joy and happiness involved. Many of those mums have gone on to become some of my closest friends and have been my angels at times. The Trust centre at Kites Corner is a place where families can go along and feel comfortable â whether they feel that day the need to laugh or cry. You donât feel you have to hide your emotions away but that you can show your emotions, confident that those around you will understand and share your experience.â
âMoving to the area last May with my disabled daughter, not knowing what services or places I could use, the James Hopkins Trust has been an invaluable source of information. They have been a great source of friendship, advice and support; a place to meet friends regularly and have a catch up with everyone, where people know Emily and all her little ways. Where people understand what you mean when you say youâve âhad a bad weekâ. The Trust is a fantastic service where our daughter is looked after at home so that we can go out as a couple for a night, just the two of us.â
Our James Hopkins Trust nurse was a real life Mary Poppins. She was fun, loyal and above all saw and loved the child we knew. She would take him for a few hours each week so I could have special Mummy time with my other son. I trusted her with my sonâs life - literally and there aren't many people I could say that about. It has been so important to us that the people who look after our son see this side of him and enjoy him as we do. The James Hopkins Trust nurses do see him as he is and we are eternally grateful to them for respecting his disability while loving his personality.
I would like to take the time to thank you enormously for the respite care you have provided for my son Daniel. As a mum who was extremely reluctant to receive any help I am now a strong advocate of respite care to other families with special needs children.
If it wasnât for the Trust I wouldnât have met people who were in the same situation and who have become the closest of friends. Going to the Trust for the first time I didnât feel like people judged my daughter for being different. Our respite nurse gives me the confidence to let my daughter have some time out from her family and enjoy some independence. She has become part of our family.