The hospice, run by Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (Chas), is one of two in Scotland helping children with life-limiting conditions.

Opened in 2005, Robin House is now 10 years old and the owners want to upgrade facilities to provide the children and their families with an improved service.

CHAS want to create a garden room as a space for relaxation and also an area for private conversations with children and their parents.

The 32sq m garden room connected to the main building via a bridge link and with sliding doors to access an outside area covered by a canopy.

The project also involves expanding the current teenage den.

A 29sq m extension would be added on, including an outdoor section covered by a canopy.

Other parts of the upgrade involve dividing the main children’s activity room into three rooms joined by a corridor putting sun shades will be put on the glass roof to reduce overheating as well as adding extra windows and ventilation.

Alison Allan, CHAS capital project manager, said: “It’s been 10 years since we started out here at Robin House and things have changed for us. We have more staff and the people using Robin House have a huge variety of different needs and we need to refurbish some of our internal spaces to help us work more effectively and we need to create an additional space to help us have more flexibility going forward.” She said extending the den would give more space for people have complex needs and equipment such as wheelchairs.

She added: “It gives our teenagers a better space where they can access outside space and it will be a better social environment for them which is really important when you have a life-shortening condition.” Ms Allan said the garden room would be a light and airy space with lots of glass.

She said: “We want to create a nice space for one to one meetings with children and their parents and a more private space for conversations to take place. Because there’s more staff now we don’t have the space there where we can have private conversations with parents.” She urged people to help raise money for the £1.57million extension and upgrade by donations or sponsored events. The charity has teamed up with a national paper to promote the Oor House campaign to raise money for refit.

Donations can be made in the following ways: Send cheques payable to Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) to: Oor Hoose, CHAS 10, 2nd Floor, Buchanan Tower, Cumbernauld Road, Stepps, G33 6HZ. Or go to the Oor Hoose JustGiving page at campaign.justgiving.com/charity/chas/oorhoose or give via www.chas.org.uk. Text – Text CHAS10, leave a space then enter the amount you want to give (eg CHAS10 £10)to 70070. It is important you include a £ sign.