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How do you remember Mum on Mother’s Day?

Advice, Blog, News
Mother’s Day can be especially difficult for children and young people who have lost their mum or another special female role model in their life. From adverts to social media posts, it can be difficult to avoid Mother’s Day and this can be a constant reminder that your mum is ...
Julie Stokes

A message from the founder of Winston’s Wish, Julie Stokes OBE

Blog, News
In 1992, I returned to the UK after a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship with lots of exciting ideas on how we could bring children together, to help them support each other, express their feelings and ultimately rebuild their lives when someone had died. Winston’s ‘wish’ was that every child who ...
Lost for Words book for bereaved children

New book to help young people through grief

Advice, Blog
A new free e-book has been released for Children’s Grief Awareness Week, featuring a collection of personal insights and advice for bereaved children by bereaved children, including those who have been supported by Winston’s Wish. Lost for Words: Advice for Children About How to Deal with Grief was conceived and edited ...
Hope After Suicide

Raising awareness of the thousands of children bereaved by suicide

Blog, News
Childhood bereavement charity, Winston’s Wish, pledges to raise awareness of the thousands of children who are bereaved by suicide each year, through the release of a short film entitled #HopeAfterSuicide.  The film, has been directed and produced by filmmaker Phil Beastall – the man behind the £50 ‘Love is a Gift’ ...
Books about grief for children

How books can help children explore grief and bereavement

Advice, Blog
Reading stories that are based on grief to children can be a really good way of helping them to explore feelings and emotions around loss. Through encouragement and questions, you can help your child to explore how the characters are behaving and feeling and enable them to see similarities, or differences, ...

How can social media impact a bereaved child?

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Social media is so much a part of everybody’s lives today, especially children and young people. When you’re bereaved it can be helpful but it can also raise challenges. It can provide networks of support Social media can provide a support network, whether that’s your family and friends or support groups of ...

Being Mum and Dad on Father’s Day

Advice, Blog, News
Through his Doodle Diary, our new Ambassador Gary Andrews tells us about being Mum and Dad on Father's Day after the unexpected death of his wife Joy, aged just 41, in 2017 left him the sole parent to their two children Lily and Ben, who were just 10 and seven ...
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