About The Trust
In the month before he died, Sebastian launched a new drive for his Action
Fund to purchase a holiday home by the sea that would provide somewhere
exclusively for families to spend precious time together, away from the hospitals
and punishing treatment regimens that govern the lives of cancer patients.
Every year, more than one thousand children in the UK are diagnosed with some
form of cancer. The demands of that diagnosis have a huge impact on the entire
family, not just the patient. It invariably leads to a dramatic loss in family
time together, inevitable emotional stress and fatigue affecting all members
of the family and possible financial loss, as parents have to juggle work commitments
with caring for a sick child.
Our aim is to try to alleviate such pressures on families at a time when they
may be at their lowest ebb; exhausted physically, emotionally and financially.