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8th August 2008THE PALLASADES SUPPORTED CHARITY 'SPOCC'
(Society of Parents of Children with Cancer)
o SPoCC was formed in 1985 by medical staff at Birmingham Childrens Hospital and parents who had lost a child to cancer or had a child diagnosed with cancer.
o SPoCC is a self funding charity that receives neither grants nor money from hospitals yet they continue to offer support to children treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital suffering with cancer; and their families. This includes - regular outings & days out; peer support for newly diagnosed families; a refreshment area in clinic manned by members and flowers for bereaved families.
SUNDAY MERCURY'S 'GIVE A CHILD HEALTH' CHARITY
o This local charity helps families in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands, with 100% of the money that is donated going to the charity.
o The Pallasades have supported and fundraised for SPOCC over the past few years, have funded a minibus and in total helped raise well over 50,000 through various charity events. Throughout the year The Pallasades Customer Care Desk gift-wrap on behalf of SPoCC but in the run up to Christmas, SPoCC volunteers can be found in the centre wrapping gifts for Birminghams busy shoppers.
o The Give a Child Health fund was started in 1953 after Christian Kunzle, a Swiss chocolate maker came to Birmingham to make chocolate cakes.
o To thank the city, an arrangement was made with the Education Committee to take boys suffering from TB to his chateau in Switzerland for treatment at a clinic.
o A young girl called Brenda Jobson who had TB, wrote to the Sunday Mercury asking why there was no such scheme for girls, so the editor of the paper at the time started a fund called Give A Girl Health.
o When Christian Kunzle died the fund started including boys.
o In 1995 the fund became a registered charity and changed its name to The Give a Child Health Charitable Trust - known as the Give a Child Health Fund.
o Recently activity has seen the charity send children to a clinic in the French Pyrenees for the long summer holidays and in 1997 it raised 110,000 to equip and run a lung function laboratory at the Birmingham Children's Hospital. This helps children suffering from severe asthma, cystic fibrosis and some less common lung disorders.
Donations can be paid directly to the Pallasades Customer Care Desk or the Pallasades Management Office.
Thank you for your support!