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Winston’s Wish pleased to join All-Party Parliamentary Group

Winston’s Wish is pleased to announce that it is one of the Steering Group Members for the newly established All-Party Parliamentary Group for Grief Support and Its Impact on Society, with national bereavement signposting charity AtaLoss acting as Secretariat.  Along with a selection of other charities in the bereavement sector, Winston’s ...

Winston’s Wish Partners With Teapot Trust To Boost Bereavement Support For Chronically Ill Children

Winston’s Wish is delighted to be partnering with Teapot Trust, a mental health charity that provides support and improves the lives of children living with chronic health conditions through art therapy. Together, the charities will signpost children and young people to one another’s services and provide mutual training for staff ...
School girl with teacher in a classroom

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

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, ...
Sarah Helton, BackPocketTeacher

Winston’s Wish launches SEND Rapid Response training

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, ...

Greeting Card Association Consults Charity Youth Ambassadors

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 ...
Youth Ambassador Alfie Watts from the BBC TV show, Race Across the World

Meet our newest Ambassador – Alfie Watts!

Winston’s Wish is delighted to be welcoming its newest Ambassador, Alfie Watts. Many will recognise Alfie as the recent star of the BBC hit series Race Across the World where he revealed his own personal story of childhood bereavement during an especially poignant moment during his race to the finish ...
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