Local children’s hospice service, Shooting Star CHASE is delighted to be chosen as Ash Manor and Guildford Spectrum's Charity of the Year. The centres will be encouraging its customers to donate points they gain through the ‘Active’ loyalty card to the charity, enabling many of the families that use the children’s hospice to benefit from the award winning leisure facilities.

Shooting Star CHASE is the children's hospice service, supporting local families with a child or teenager not expected to reach their 19th birthday.  Shooting Star CHASE currently helps over 500 families living in western London, Surrey and West Sussex. The charity is committed to caring for these families every step of their journey, sharing the good times, and helping them through the tough times with practical, nursing and emotional support.

Launching the partnership Marketing Manager, Rob Price, says, “We are delighted to be able to support Shooting Star CHASE in 2012. The charity was the stand out winner in our customer vote and there support of local families, many of whom are also Spectrum customers provides the perfect link between our two Guildford organisations. Like them, we believe play is an essential part of every child’s development and we very much hope that, by providing free activity tickets to these children, their siblings and families supported by Shooting Star CHASE, we can enable even more families to enjoy their precious leisure time together.

He continued, “Last year our customers generously donated thousands of points to Disability Challengers enabling many to benefit. We are really looking forward to working in partnership with Shooting Star CHASE and hope this year will be as successful.”

We would love our customers to get involved by giving any unwanted Active points from their Active Cards. We can then turn these into activity tickets, enabling local families with disabled children to enjoy time together In addition to fundraising and raising awareness of the fantastic work that Shooting Star Chase do within our community.

Shooting Star CHASE is the children's hospice service, supporting local families with a child or teenager not expected to reach their 19th birthday.  Shooting Star CHASE currently helps over 500 families living in western London, Surrey and West Sussex. The charity are committed to caring for these families every step of their journey, sharing the good times, and helping them through the tough times with practical, nursing and emotional support.

 For more information about their work visit their website.

If you would like to donate some points from your Active Card simply email us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it with your name, Active Card number and the points you would like to donate, or speak to a member of staff next time you visit.

Our Charity of the Year partnership is just one of the ways that we support local community and voluntary groups. For more information about our corporate social responsibility programme click here.