Rainbow Trust is a charity that makes a real difference to families who have a child with a life-threatening or terminal illness. We’re encouraging everyone from DHL staff to DHL customers to get involved…
The prospect of your son or daughter being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness is too horrifying to imagine. Sadly, it’s a heartbreaking reality faced by thousands of families in the UK every year. Coping with the emotional turmoil of childhood terminal illness is amongst the hardest things a family will ever have to do and it’s regrettable that until recently so little support has been available to those facing such traumatic uncertainty.
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity can make a difference. It offers emotional and practical support to families going through the hardest of times. Rainbow Trust workers join the families in their homes, offering support and understanding to distraught siblings, taking some of the practical burden off exhausted parents and helping them find the strength to cope. Relying almost entirely on voluntary donations, it’s an undeniably good cause, helping around 1,000 families deal every year.
That’s why we’re on a mission to encourage everybody, from DHL staff to DHL customers, to do what they can to support this incredible charity. There are lots of ways to help out, from regular giving to special occasion contributions. You can also get involved by taking part in fundraising events or even organising your own fun event.
At DHL, we’re setting out to raise a whopping £75,000 for the Rainbow Trust in 2011 through our Life Cycle fundraising scheme. Life Cycle is a campaign that we’ve been running since 2009, encouraging all our staff, across various branches of DHL, to get involved in a host of exciting fundraising events.
This year, intrepid DHL staff across the country will be: dusting off their running shoes and taking to the roads in the BUPA Great North Run, going beyond the call of duty in our Life Sky Dive, cycling from London to Paris, and swimming their way to success in the Great North Swim. Life Cycle on Tour will take a mini-sports centre, housed in the 40ft Life Cycle trailer, to DHL sites across the UK – making it even easier for staff to get involved with local sponsorship.
If you’re feeling inspired and want to help Rainbow Trust make a difference, head over to their website for ideas on how to get involved.