The Liverpool ECHO has joined the city-wide campaign to save Zoe's Place.

Shocked staff and families have been told that Zoe's Place, which has provided palliative and end-of-life care for babies and young children at its centre in Yew Tree Lane, West Derby for nearly three decades, would be closing its doors for good. The lease on the charity's current site is up next year and it said it had run out of time to raise the necessary funds for a new home.

However, the enormous outpouring of support that news of the closure has generated, has provided fresh hope that all is not lost. Having met with charity bosses last week, Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne said the race is now on to raise £5m in the next 30 days that could save the hospice.

ECHO staff members will walk from our office on Old Hall Street to Zoe's Place and back (10 miles) on October 26, to do our bit to help save this vital charity in our city.

Please give what you can - everything we raise will be donated to Zoe's Place.