The Isabel Baker Foundation was set up in 2015, in memory of Isabel Baker, who passed away from Leukeamia 8 days after her first birthday.
For the past four years, our mission has been to support bereaved parents of children with cancer by providing grants for funeral and headstone costs. Alongside this, we have also been providing parents of children with cancer with vouchers to help with living costs, if their children are in hospital for long periods of time. Parents often cannot work while their children are in hospital, and they are not fed on the ward, these costs soon add up!
Last year we went to parliament to support Carolyn Harris MP's campaign for the Children's Funeral Fund, which was implemented in June this year. This means that funerals are now free for all children.
With this is mind, we have decided to start fundraising towards a new project! A holiday lodge for families of sick or terminally ill children to use throughout the ye