History
The Shooting Star Trust was founded in 1995 by Kathryn Turner MBE. (In 2007 Kathryn was awarded the Queen's Honour for her services to The Shooting Star Children's Hospice.)
After seven years of capital fundraising, the construction of Shooting Star House commenced in January 2003 and took two years to complete.
Shooting Star welcomed its first family in August 2005 and the hospice was officially opened by Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall in February 2006.
In 2008, 95.8 Capital FM's Help a London Child charity (known as Help a Capital Child from January 2011) supported the construction of an extension at Shooting Star House - The Cosmos Therapy Zone (which, fittingly, is 95.8 square metres in size). This enables additional therapeutic services to take place such as play therapy, music therapy and relaxation therapies.
Read more about this topic: Shooting Star Children's Hospice
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