Chestnut Tree House is the only children’s hospice in Sussex.  The hospice provides care across East and West Sussex for children and young people with life-limiting and life threatening illnesses.  They provide a home from home environment where families can take a break and spend precious time together.  The house is a place of love, understanding, caring, fun, laughter, hope, friendship, and, yes, sometimes sadness.  Most of all it’s a place for living life to the full.

It costs over £2m each year to provide the hospice care services, and families are never charged for their care.  The hospice receives little government funding and has to raise 90p in every £1. 

This year, the Sussex Jewellery School are proud to support the hospice by donating a place on the Beginnings in Silver workshop, worth £110, as a prize for Chestnut Tree House's Snowman's Ball in December 2009 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel.