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What happens at a crematorium?

5th December 2024 Advice, Blog

We’re sharing this piece written by Jason King, Head of Quality and Standards at Westerleigh Group, to dispel a few myths around crematoriums and help you understand more about visiting with a child or young person. If you’ve never been to a crematorium before, you may think of them as being ...

Winston’s Wish Partners Up With Olive Academies To Empower Bereaved Pupils To Reach Their Full Potential

22nd November 2024 Blog, News, Press Releases

Winston’s Wish has officially partnered with Olive Academies, a pioneering multi-academy trust, specialising in alternative learning provision supporting 7-16-year-olds who are unable to attend mainstream schools to reach their full potential. After identifying that 19% of academy students have experienced bereavement, with a significant proportion bereaved by acts of domestic violence, ...

Winston’s Wish Announces New Partnership With National Cancer Charity Maggie’s

21st November 2024 Blog, News, Press Releases

Winston’s Wish is delighted to announce its new partnership with cancer care charity Maggie’s. These two national charities are pleased to join hands to help ensure that children and young people receive true wraparound support when someone in the family or friend circle is living with advanced cancer.  Maggie’s has 24 ...

Children’s Grief Awareness Week: Tips from widowed parents about supporting bereaved children

20th November 2024 Advice, Blog

To mark Children’s Grief Awareness Week, which takes place from 18-24 November 2024, we are pleased to share some tips about supporting bereaved children from our friends at the peer support network WAY Widowed and Young… Keeping lines of communication open is so important. My children were 2 and 8 when ...

MPs urged to join new proposed Parliamentary Group for Childhood Bereavement

19th November 2024 Blog, News, Press Releases

A new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Childhood Bereavement has been proposed with the aim of raising awareness of the impact of bereavement on children and young people and encourage debate between children, young people, families, and professionals to develop policy solutions. MPs are now being encouraged to join ...

Christmas Appeal – The Hepburn Family

14th November 2024 Blog, Stories

Winston’s Wish service user and supporter, Lisa, shares how we supported her children, Olivia, Tilly and Ellis after their dad died in 2016. “When Christmas came that first year without him, our walls started to crumble, the bubble burst and none of us wanted to even mention the word “Christmas.” ...

Finding support after being bereaved by suicide: Caroline’s story

14th November 2024 Blog, Challenge Events, Fundraising, Press Releases, Stories

Caroline received the devastating news that her husband, Steve, had died by suicide after he had been missing for two days. It was a complete shock to Caroline and her family, and there had been nothing to make her believe that this would be the outcome when she initially reported ...

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Free Webinar with Kate Jones

23rd October 2024 Blog, News

WEBINAR FULL If you would like to keep up to date with more webinars like this, please email your contact details to communications@winstonswish.org. Acclaimed Teacher, Author, and TES writer Kate Jones is teaming up with Winston's Wish to deliver an exclusive webinar exploring how to support bereaved pupils in the classroom. When: Wednesday 13th ...

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Halloween half term tips from WAY

21st October 2024 Advice, Blog

Supporting bereaved children during half-term and Halloween can be challenging, especially when the nights are closing in and talking about ghosts and other spooky themes may trigger emotions linked to loss. Here are some helpful tips from our friends at WAY Widowed and Young to help navigate the upcoming school ...

How to talk to children about the death of a celebrity

17th October 2024 Advice, Blog

The death of a public figure can significantly affect children, as well as adults. This could be their first experience of death, and they might not really understand it, or maybe they have been bereaved and this brings up those difficult feelings again. After the death of a celebrity, the ...

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