Richard House Children's Hospice

Who we are

Based in East London, we provide palliative care to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions across London.

Opened in 2000, Richard House was London’s first children’s hospice.  It was founded by our Life-President, Anthea Hare, who was inspired by both her experience as a paediatric nurse at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and through helping her parents to look after her severely autistic brother.

Today we support more than 300 families from Newham, Barking, Dagenham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Redbridge, Haringey, Islington, Ilford, Camden and into South Essex.

From the moment a child is diagnosed with a life-limiting, life-threatening or complex health condition everything changes.  These changes affect the whole family, which is why we feel it is vital not only to provide care to the child but to support the whole family and to help families choose when, where and how they receive care.