Fundraisers who set up and equipped Wales's first children's hospice celebrate its first birthday but worries about long term funding could mar the festivities.

It costs a �1m a year to run Ty Hafan and its chief executive is pinning his hopes on a meeting in a fortnight's time with four health authorities which could unlock at least part of that money.

Like its counterpart serving North Wales, Hope House, the setting up of Ty Hafan was a triumph for ordinary people.

They raised more than �2m to build the seaside hospice in the Vale of Glamorgan and enough to keep it going for a year.

In that time hundreds of families from south and west Wales have benefitted from respite care offered to children who are seriously ill, or who have a short life expectancy.

Assembly First Secretary Alun Michael gave a �250,000 last year as a one off payment.

But children's hospices do not receive any automatic help from health authorities.

Ty Hafan has been given small amounts for individual children but its chief executive Dominic Jenkins wants far more.

A spokesman for Bro Taf, one of the health authorities involved, said negotiations are still ongoing.

No decision will be made until after the meeting on 7 February , he said.