time to rest & recover

The Harry Johnson Trust offers support to children and teenagers with cancer.

The trust raised £70,000 last year to fund Harry’s House, based at Gwernydd Hall Holiday Park in Welshpool, as a holiday home for families facing treatment. Wooden Spoon Shropshire provided a £1,600 grant for garden furniture to complete the holiday experience.

The trust was founded in 2014 by Sally and Stephen Johnson following the death of their seven-year-old son, Harry, who had double-hit non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Paediatric Haematology Nurse Specialist, Janice Llewellyn, explains why

Harry’s House is so important: “It offers families the chance to get away on a holiday within travelling distance to the hospital. If they did need to attend hospital during their stay, families would not have to meet a new team and explain their condition and treatment.

“The break can be for just a couple of nights, or for up to a week, so can be arranged to fit in with the competing demands these families have. “It’s a change of scenery for them, with lots of activities on offer for all ages.

“The support The Harry Johnson Trust gives families is absolutely first class and a one off. This makes such a difference in such traumatic times. It also gives them an opportunity to be a family and have some quality time together.”

“It offers families the chance to get away on a holiday within travelling distance to the hospital... It’s a change of scenery for them with lots of activities on offer for all ages.”

Janice Llewellyn