Chart Children'S Hospice Arts Charity

chART Children's Hospice Arts brings a diverse range of the arts to children and young people with life limiting conditions in hospices and hospital wards.

We aim to enrich the lives of children and young people with life limiting conditions in hospices through the creative, performing and literary Arts, enabling individual expression, creativity and communication.
We recognize that families may also derive great benefit from the Arts and aim to provide sessions with their children and events arranged especially for parents, carers and siblings of children in hospices.
In addition to our volunteer teams, we work with Arts professionals, developing contacts with individuals and organizations who can help us to bring the Arts to hospices. We support art and music therapists and artists in residence by identifying areas where we can help; our volunteers may work closely with them in arts, crafts and music sessions.

chART Children’s Hospice Arts is governed by a board of Trustees who ensure that the Trust is administered effectively and that our charitable outcomes are delivered. All of us at chART work voluntarily.
The chART Trustees are all experienced fund-raisers, which includes working for children’s charities. Our experience has shown us that there is a need for further funding to bring more diverse Arts experiences to children’s hospices and their families, hence founding chART.
The Charity Commission for England & Wales don’t require small charities with an annual income of less than £5000 to register; however, we still benefit from having charitable status and follow the Commission’s requirements and guidelines. We are members of the Small Charities Coalition and CTN, the Trustee Network.

Jackie Hassall - Chairperson
“It's an honour to work with my chART co-founders and dear friends, Carol and Suzanne, as we aim to help children and young people in hospices through the Arts. I hope to use my background in Early Years and Primary education to provide broad and varied Arts based experiences for these children and their families. Carol, Suzanne and I share the same work ethics and determination to ensure that chART will deliver its aims. I promise to put my heart and soul into bringing the Arts to children with life-limiting conditions”.

Carol Bromley - Secretary
“I’m delighted to be part of this dedicated team, including close friends, Jackie and Suzanne, as we work to bring the Arts into lives of children and young people in hospices. I bring twenty years voluntary experience in fund-raising for children’s causes, a love of the Arts and a background in design and education to chART. I’m very happy to be assuming responsibility for the Literary Arts, being an aspiring author!
We are also committed to ensuring that parents /carers and siblings of children with progressive and life-shortening conditions benefit from our support. We’d love you to join us in working to enrich the lives of these families and their children. ”

Suzanne Price - Treasurer
chART– what a charity to have co-founded with two wonderful ladies who have hearts of gold, passion and determination! We are friends as well as colleagues and work so well together. Working to help children with life limiting conditions in hospices, and their families, is humbling and I will do whatever it takes to make a difference. Being a breast cancer survivor, helps me to understand some of the emotions and anxieties these children and families go through; surviving the disease has made me live life to the full, change my priorities and always make time for others. I have been involved in fund-raising for over ten years- this is where I am happiest! ”

The Trustees are very much involved in all of chART’s activities, including responsibility for specific Arts disciplines as Team Leaders: -
Art & Design: Carol Bromley
Crafts: Lauren Bromley
Film & Photography: Suzanne Price
Literary Arts: Carol Bromley
Music: Suzanne Price & Jackie Hasssall
Theatre & Dance: Jackie Hassall

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1167129