00:00How long have you been doing the Halloween house?
00:03About five, well as long as I can remember.
00:06But then we've been doing the Brian house, raising for charity for five years.
00:10Yeah, it's been quite successful.
00:13I've had a few people cry, a lot of people have said wow and shocked and they just like it.
00:19I like the nine foot inflatable light up ghost that's in the corner.
00:24I like him, I think he's quite cool.
00:27He's really scary but I think he's quite cool.
00:30We went to Merrihill shopping centre just on the outskirts of Birmingham
00:35and we got a few new bits from there like a popcorn machine that has a scary head inside
00:42and various other items.
00:45We got a lot of bags of things for Brian house and they decorated the inside of there
00:52with all the stuff that was donated from Merrihill.
00:55It was a marvellous job, an absolutely marvellous job in raising funds for Brian house.
01:00The Brian house is a children's hospice.
01:02It's for children from birth to 19 years of age.
01:06We offer respite care and end of life care to children with life limiting or end of life conditions.
01:15We have a sensory corridor up our corridor which is full of lights and tactile sensory
01:22so they can touch them, play with them.
01:24We have computers for the children that like to go on the computers.
01:28We even have a big touch screen computer that they can use.
01:32We have our sensory room which children and adults absolutely love.
01:37We have the craft room which we're actually sat in now and there's all sorts of activities going on in here.
01:43As you can see we're set up for Halloween so we do follow themes throughout the year.
01:48We have the ball pool and a cinema room so we can make that into a big screen.
01:53So if we've got the teenagers in we can have a cinema night which we quite often do.
01:58When the children come to Brian house they're looked after by a team of nurses
02:02that are able to look after them, professional nurses and healthcare assistants.
02:08So they get the care that they need to get through their day and the activities,
02:14it's stimulating them, it gives them stimulation.
02:19In a different environment I think it's giving them social awareness as well.
02:25We do take the children out on trips so they have that social awareness
02:30that there are things that they can do outside which they might not be able to do with their parents
02:37and we're able to give them that.
02:40I give them a break as well, from school, from home, give them something different.
02:46For us that work in Brian house we all know how much money is needed to keep Brian house open
02:53and if it wasn't for children and young people like Bailey that would have a massive impact on Brian house,
03:01provision of end of life care and respite care.
03:05So it's very much needed that people like Bailey carry on raising funds
03:11but also raising awareness that Brian house is here and that people know about Brian house
03:17and that they understand what we do and how fundamental the raising of funds is to Brian house.
03:24You can see how much it impacts them when you go and you can see how much it helps
03:31and what the money goes towards.
03:33They take them out different places.
03:35They went to the Sea Life Centre and the zoo and things.
03:38They do take them out a lot and obviously the money will go towards the trips.
03:43I know one year the money went towards 80 pairs of pyjamas that they bought for the children for Christmas.
03:52That must make you feel really good.
03:54Yeah, I'm able to help them.
04:01I'm able to help them.
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