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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 ...

TV Star Alfie Watts Launches Charity Single for Winston’s Wish

7th October 2024 Blog, Fundraising, News, Press Releases, Stories

Television personality and BBC Race Across the World Winner Alfie Watts will release his debut single, Hopeless Wings, on the 31st of October to raise funds for Winston’s Wish. As an ambassador for the UK’s first children and young people’s bereavement charity, Alfie is keen to be a grief advocate for ...

Winston’s Wish launches SEND Rapid Response training

25th September 2024 Blog, News, Press Releases

Winston’s Wish has launched a new SEND Rapid Response package designed to support educational providers following a bereavement in the school community. We have worked exclusively with Sarah Helton, a SEND Trainer and Consultant who specialises in grief and bereavement, to create this specific package designed with SEND pupils in mind. Sarah, ...

Coping with bereavement by suicide: Thoughts from WAY members

20th September 2024 Advice, Blog

To mark Suicide Awareness Month, members of the charity WAY Widowed and Young share their thoughts on coping with bereavement by suicide and how to look after themselves and their children. Diane's Story "For me, the suddenness was also really difficult to deal with – one minute Graham was there and the ...

Greeting Card Association Consults Charity Youth Ambassadors

20th August 2024 Blog, News, Press Releases

The Greeting Card Association has joined forces with Winston’s Wish to create a new set of principles to be rolled out throughout the greeting card industry to remember grieving young people in sympathy card spaces. Moonpig recently hosted a special workshop at their headquarters with industry professionals and members of the ...

Back to school tips for bereaved children: Practical advice from WAY members

14th August 2024 Advice, Blog

Navigating the back-to-school routine can be daunting when your child has suffered from a significant bereavement. To help, our friends at WAY Widowed and Young have shared some helpful tips from their members - offering advice from widowed parents to make the school year a little less stressful for bereaved children ...

Winston's Wish lottery player, Mandy (centre) with her daughter Sasha and now husband Les

Winston’s Wish lottery player, Mandy, shares her reasons for playing every week

2nd August 2024 Blog, Fundraising, Stories

Winston’s Wish lottery player, Mandy, shares her reasons for playing every week following the support her transgender daughter, Sasha, received when her dad died. In 2001, Mandy and her family – husband Bob and child Sasha - were travelling in France when their car was hit by a speeding motorcycle. Mandy ...

Hope 100 - generic ask, featuring a family of three laughing and painting a wooden house

Hope 100 is back this summer!

25th July 2024 Blog, Challenge Events, News, Press Releases

We’re calling on the local community to get involved in something different this summer! Winston’s Wish is launching Hope 100 from this month and is encouraging local communities, families, friend groups, workplaces or school clubs to challenge themselves to get involved in an activity, from cake sales to sporty challenges, and ...

Man takes on second IronMan for Winston’s Wish

24th July 2024 Blog, Challenge Events, News, Press Releases

It is not every day that somebody decides they are going to take on the challenge of completing an IronMan and yet this September will see Peter McGahan take part in his second IronMan.Peter explains his own personal connection to the charity’s cause and what motivates him to get involved ...

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