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Growing Hope: our gardening group for bereaved children in Gloucester

Blog, News
Through the therapeutic benefits of gardening, Growing Hope offers a nourishing space which feeds both the emotional and physical well-being of bereaved children, enabling them to meet other children of similar ages who have experienced bereavement and create small networks of support. By gardening together with the support of an ...
How to prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer

How to talk to a bereaved child

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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. The following blog post is an extract from our podcast on the importance of conversation. It features Debbie and Gemma in the South West team. You can listen to the podcast below.   For Parents and Carers When somebody dies sometimes people just don’t know ...
Parent sitting on the the bed talking on the phone and looking at laptop. Son sitting behind facing away.

How to answer difficult questions about a bereavement

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Children and young people will often have lots of questions after the death of somebody close to them. Sometimes, those questions are difficult to answer. How do you answer those questions? Emma and Gemma, from our Bereavement Support Team, discuss these situations and how you can answer the difficult questions from ...
Young girl hugging parent

How to approach the New Year after a bereavement

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So, you’ve manage to make it through Christmas. Well done! There’s every chance that there’ve been times that were good or dare I say even fun, but with every likelihood also times tinged with sadness when the loss of your loved one was so obvious and evident. Now, as you ...

Beyond Today: ‘When my brother died, I lost a part of myself’

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My name’s Georgia Coan. I’m a producer on BBC Radio 4’s podcast ‘Beyond Today’. Recently I made the decision to openly discuss my experience with grief for a podcast episode with our presenter, Matthew Price. In 2013, at the age of 19, I lost my younger brother Elliot due to complications in ...
Explaining homicide to children

How school teachers can help bereaved children

Advice, Blog, News
The following blog post has been written by Robert Kruze, a Primary School teacher in the North West and a volunteer at Winston's Wish. He explores the ways in which school teachers can help children who have been bereaved.  The daily life of a classroom teacher can be extremely manic but no ...
Disko Kids

Meet Disko Kids

Blog, Fundraising, News
Helen Dukes, founder and owner of fashion brand Disko Kids, is currently training for the Black Country Road Race. The run, on 1st July, is just one way in which Helen has been supporting Winston’s Wish since her daughter Lottie lost her Dad. We chatted to Helen to find out ...

100 Different Ways to Complete your Hope100 Challenge

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We are very excited to launch our brand new campaign; The Hope100 Challenge. 100 children are bereaved of a parent every day in the UK, and we are asking for people to take part in The Hope100 challenge this June to raise funds to support the vital therapeutic work we carry ...
How to help a grieving friend

How to help a grieving friend

Advice, Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FL62iMC7AA&t=16s One of the toughest situations facing bereaved young people can be how to deal with their friends. They may be the only person in their friendship group or at their school that have experienced a bereavement. In this video, Laura from our South West team discusses how you can help a ...
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