Mission

To provide the highest quality support to children and their families who are affected by bereavement or life threatening illness.

Category

Family Support

Additional Information

In the time that it takes you to read this, a family’s life could have changed forever – they may have received a diagnosis of a terminal illness or received the tragic news that a loved one has died. This is where The Rainbow Centre for Children comes in. We support children and their families from Bristol and the surrounding area including Somerset, South Wales and Gloucestershire. We help families deal with the pain, grief, anger and sadness that can be caused by the death of a child or parent or their life threatening illness. We help them cope with the impact this has on individual family members as well as the family as a whole. Families come to us not only because someone has died from an illness but also as a result of fatal accidents, suicide or murder. We offer art and music therapy to children, counselling to older children and adults, and massage therapy. We also provide group work and family work. Each therapy session lasts for 50 minutes, and the children or their parents / carers come at the same time each week so they build up a relationship and trust with our therapists. All the therapy we provide is free of charge and we support families for as long as they need our help. Each therapy session costs The Rainbow Centre £30 and we rely entirely on voluntary donations for our existence.