Respite nursing for Oxfordshire’s Sick Youngsters
Welcome to ROSY (Respite Nursing for Oxfordshire’s Sick Youngsters.) We fund additional respite nursing care at home for children with chronic, life-limiting or terminal illnesses in Oxfordshire.
We also provide equipment for sick children which can improve their day-to-day lives, and a counseling service for families who are affected by having a child who is suffering from an illness requiring respite care.
Currently we fund 11 respite nurses and HCAs (Health Care Assistants) in Oxfordshire, to do the equivalent of 7 full time jobs in respite care for our ROSY families.
While we think it’s best for children with terminal or complex illness to be cared for at home, around familiar things like siblings, family and pets, it places a huge burden of care on their families, who are left to care for a child with very complex medical needs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Until 2002, when ROSY began, there was only a tiny provision of extra help for parents who had sick children at home. ROSY was set up by Craig Milner, brother of Bev Wilson, one of the two part-time respite nurses who were struggling to cope with the respite nursing needs of the families in Oxfordshire nursing desperately sick children in their homes. These children were well looked after in hospital but the parents were very much on their own once the child was discharged, despite requiring 24 hour care.
All our respite nurses are chosen, trained and allocated by the NHS, which allows us to concentrate on raising the money to pay their salaries. There are no overheads, and most who work for ROSY, do so voluntarily. Which means that every penny raised goes towards paying for nursing care, equipment for the children, creating opportunities to bring our families together and making life easier for the ROSY families.
We’re incredibly proud of everything we have managed to achieve over the last decade and a half. Please get in touch, donate, or take a look at the video from our supporter, Tom Hollander, below:
Appeal from Tom Hollander
The actor, Tom Hollander, the star of Rev and The Night Manager is one of our biggest supporters.
His niece, Imogen was born with severe disability and ROSY helped care for her throughout her life. Here, he tells us what ROSY means to his family.
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ROSY relies on your help to make money to pay our respite nurses, but we also rely on raising awareness about what we do too. We get the word out about many of our fundraising events via Facebook, Instragram and Twitter.
So please follow us, retweet us and tell your friends.
Just a selection of photos from our fabulous walk so far today #rosywalk2018
It’s walk day! Is everyone ready?!thank you to all our fabulous ROSY nurses and parents of ROSY children who are walking today. We don’t know how you manage to do it on top of being heroes in your own lives already. Thank you to everyone who turns out to support ROSY!
Just another one of our fabulous ROSY coffee mornings for families affected by children who need respite care. Thank you for continuing to support us 🙏🏼
We’re on countdown to our annual ROSY 30mile walk this Saturday. Hope everybody has good shoes, supplies of compeed, has begun carb-loading and hydrating? Only joking... but not about the compeed.
#fundraising #walk #oxfordshire #respite #respitecare #nurses #childrenscharity
A huge and heartfelt thank you to @OpenDoorsUK for your lovely letter and donation of £1000 to ROSY. We feel privileged to be recognised in this way!
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Respite for Oxfordshire's Sick Youngsters
ROSY is a Support Group operating as a part of the Oxford Health Charity - Registered charity no. 1057285.
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