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(L-R) TV presenters Janet Ellis and Gaby Roslin with Matthew Balnaves - Regional Manager at Hilti, Ashley Banjo - Leader of the Diversity Dance Group, then Olga Katsanova - Head of Technical Marketing, Charlotte Okosun - HR Business Partner, Leanne Silvester - Service Consultant and Steve Roberts - Culture Sherpa from Hilti. Prince Harry congratulates the Hilti team for their Volunteer Company of the Year Award at the WellChild Awards.

Leading power tool and construction services company, Hilti has been named the winner of the Volunteer Company of the Year at the prestigious national 2017 WellChild Awards, in association with GSK.

The company collected their prize at a high-profile ceremony on October 16th at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, where they met WellChild Royal Patron Prince Harry.

Over the past two years, Hilti has provided funding, donated over £5,500 worth of tools to Helping Hands and staff have given their time across 13 projects to provide life-transforming home and garden improvements to families of seriously ill children across the UK.

WellChild is the national charity for seriously ill children which works to ensure the best possible care for children with complex health needs and support their families. Their Helping Hands scheme tackles essential home and garden makeovers, with the support of volunteer teams from local companies and organisations.

WellChild Project Manager, Lorna Pedersen said: “We always look forward to a project with Hilti. They support our Helping Hands programme with great professionalism but at the same time their volunteers are really approachable which is vital when interacting so closely with the families whose homes we are working on. This company truly deserves to be recognised with a WellChild Award.”

The WellChild Awards celebrate the courage of children coping with serious illnesses or complex conditions and honour the dedication of professionals, carers and volunteers who go the extra mile to help sick children and their families.

With hundreds of nominations received from across the country, the difficult job of choosing winners in all WellChild Award categories is given, each year, to an esteemed panel of judges. That panel consists of leading health professionals and others with an interest in children’s health and includes children and young people who face serious illness themselves. 

For more details see the Hilti Website

WellChild is the national charity for seriously ill children, committed to improving the quality of life for children across the UK with serious illness, or exceptional health needs.

Many of these children spend months, even years in hospital simply because there is no support enabling them to leave. WellChild exists to ensure they are given the best chance to thrive – at home, together with their families.

The charity, which has Prince Harry as its Patron, funds numerous programmes aimed at ensuring that children can be cared for at home with their families wherever possible:

• A nationwide network of WellChild Nurses support families along their journey from hospital to home and ensure they have the confidence and competence to meet the exceptional health needs of their children once at home.
• WellChild Helping Hands is a company volunteer scheme that transforms bedrooms and gardens to make life at home safer and more suitable for a child with exceptional health needs.
• Families also benefit from connecting with others in similar situations for mutual support and advice through the WellChild Family Tree Network, bringing together hundreds of families across the UK via online and face-to-face support groups.

WellChild also has a successful history of campaigning and funding ground-breaking research aimed at improving treatment and care for children and young people.

For more information, please see WellChild website