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Charity football match to honour two-year-old boy
Charity football match to honour two-year-old boy

Yahoo

time3 days ago

  • Sport
  • Yahoo

Charity football match to honour two-year-old boy

A charity football match is to be held later in memory of a two-year-old boy who from Devon who died with a heart condition. James and Lauren Washbrook lost their son Hendrix in 2022, who was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. In 2023 the pair set up a charity, Marching On With Hendrix, which was set up to support bereaved parents. The charity football match will be held at Buckland Athletic, in Newton Abbott, with gates opening at 12:00 BST and kick-off at 14:00. More news stories for Devon Listen to the latest news for Devon The Marching On With Hendrix team - made up of family, friends, local footballers, ex-professionals and one current professional player - would play against Forever Green, a team of former Plymouth Argyle players. The charity supports parents, grandparents and siblings by offering counselling, emotional support, and meaningful keepsakes such as memory bears and jewellery. Mr Washbrook said: "We just felt like the support wasn't really available or wasn't right for us... so we we decided to set up on our own and and try and bridge that gap. "We're entirely self-funded so every penny that goes out to our families is raised by us in the community that we that we're in... and the football match just happens to be the next one of those that we're doing." 'Grieve at your own pace' Mr Washbrook said the event was open to all, with tickets £10 for adults, £2 for children and £20 for family tickets. The money would go "towards families who have lost a child between birth and 18 years old", he said. Mr Washbrook said his advice to parents experiencing a loss would be "grieve at your own pace". "Everybody's different, although we we all go through the grieving process, it's not a linear journey by any stretch of the imagination I know," he said. "Follow what your what your feelings are, and there's no right or wrong way of grieving." Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@ More on this story Charity football match in honour of fire victims Thousands attend charity football match Related internet links Marching on with Hendrix

New Jersey Wind Phone offers grieving visitors a way to connect with deceased loved ones
New Jersey Wind Phone offers grieving visitors a way to connect with deceased loved ones

CBS News

time4 days ago

  • Health
  • CBS News

New Jersey Wind Phone offers grieving visitors a way to connect with deceased loved ones

A newly dedicated Wind Phone on the grounds of Cornerstone Church in Williamstown, New Jersey, offers a symbolic tether to communicate with deceased loved ones for grieving members of the community. A dedication was held on Wednesday for hospice care provider Angelic Health's Wind Phone – a disconnected rotary phone and a park bench set in nature, where you can sit and share your feelings, process your grief, pick up the phone and make a symbolic call to a lost loved one. The concept of the Wind Phone began in Japan in 2010 when creator Itaru Sasaki purchased an old phone booth and set it up in his garden as a way to grieve and communicate with his cousin, who had died of cancer. Since 2010, other Wind Phone projects have popped up in several countries, including hundreds in the United States. The idea for the newly created Wind Phone was a word-of-mouth project, said Angelic Health's bereavement coordinator, Ken Jackson, who worked with several others, including curator of the New Jersey Wind Phone project, Amy Dawson, to see the project through. "There are lots of strategies to cope with grief," Jackson explained, "some don't want to journal or vent. Sometimes the grief can get stored up." The physical and tactile act of picking up a phone is a great way to "feeling the connection again and processing the loss of your loved one." While on the grounds of Cornerstone Church, the Wind Phone is open to the public. To find out more about the project or to create your own Wind Phone, visit

St Luke's Hospice scheme helping children cope with death
St Luke's Hospice scheme helping children cope with death

BBC News

time4 days ago

  • Health
  • BBC News

St Luke's Hospice scheme helping children cope with death

A Sheffield hospice has set up counselling and art sessions for children going through Luke's said help was available for those aged between five and 16 who had lost someone being cared for by the hospice.A pilot project, which preceded the new sessions, "demonstrated very clearly that there is a real need for counselling support among children who have lost a loved one at the hospice," a St Luke's spokesperson aim was to help children develop resilience and to explore their emotions and loss, they added. Faye Costello, from the hospice, said, "These sessions will offer an opportunity to learn about death in an age-appropriate way and to understand the effects of grief and embrace a variety of responses at the same time as honouring the memory of a loved one."In some of the sessions for younger children a so-called worry monster was used. The monster is a stuffed toy with a zipper on its mouth. A child can write down or draw their worries on a piece of paper and put the worry in the toy's mouth, a way for them to bring their feelings out, said Ms Costello. 'Understand their emotions' For children aged five to 11, eight weekly group sessions would be offered, with older children being able to access one-on-one sessions and art Costello said: "It's key that we're trying to 'normalise' grief and death and help children to develop emotional literacy, to be able to explain how they're feeling, to understand their emotions and also think about remembering that person in in a positive way." Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North

Bridgnorth man credits grief education campaign to mum's death
Bridgnorth man credits grief education campaign to mum's death

BBC News

time4 days ago

  • General
  • BBC News

Bridgnorth man credits grief education campaign to mum's death

At just 12 years old, John Adams lost his mum, his father openly talked about death and grieving afterwards, Mr Adams found that in school, communication around the subject was "non-existent".Becoming a funeral director at Perry & Phillips in his hometown of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, opened his eyes - he said adults appeared scared to get children involved in funerals, or to speak to them about death at was in 2022 that he started campaigning to get grieving education into the curriculum, and this week, he has achieved that goal. On Tuesday, the Department for Education published its statutory guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education and health said by the end of primary school, pupils should be taught that change, loss and bereavement can provoke a range of feelings, that grief is a natural response to bereavement, and that everyone grieves the end of secondary school, they should be taught how families and relationships change over time, including through birth, death, separation and new relationships. "I received a phone call on Tuesday," Mr Adams said, "to say it's happened and it's now going into the guidance, and to congratulate me." "It's been relentless. I haven't stopped, it's become who I am. So it's a moment to pause and reflect on what's been achieved."I'm also aware there's more work to do now – it's about what it looks like in the curriculum." 'Death is the only guarantee in life' It was a long road to this point - Mr Adams became president of the National Association of Funeral Directors in 2022, and spoke then about his goal."The idea of it, is that we have more of an idea of the emotions that are affiliated with when someone dies," he said."It's the only guarantee in life, and therefore we should be more informed about what these emotions are and how we deal with them."In October 2022, he launched a parliamentary petition which amassed more than 11,000 signatures. It was debated in Parliament in December 2024."Having a base level within school, I recognise that's where it needs to start," he said."So, when these young people become adults, they have more awareness of knowing how to communicate about death dying and bereavement." Looking ahead, Mr Adams has been asked to help shape how the subject is told the BBC that the first steps would be to provide support and reassurance for teachers who would be delivering the education."The right sessions will come from that," he on the announcement, he said: "My mum, Maria, has been the fuel for the whole of this process and campaign – she's pushed me on. "I hope that she'd be pleased and proud that despite being such a sad time when I was 12, that something good has come of it to help other people." Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.

Eighties TV star with actress daughter and famous ex passes away aged 78 after year-long battle with cancer
Eighties TV star with actress daughter and famous ex passes away aged 78 after year-long battle with cancer

The Sun

time5 days ago

  • Entertainment
  • The Sun

Eighties TV star with actress daughter and famous ex passes away aged 78 after year-long battle with cancer

BRITISH actress Kate Beckinsale has announced the sad passing of her mother, aged 78, following a year-long cancer battle. Kate, 51, took to Instagram on Thursday night to share that Judy Loe died in her arms on July 15. 2 Kate first revealed her mother's cancer diagnosis last year, shortly after the death of her famous stepfather. Director Roy Battersby tragically passed away in January following a massive stroke. Kate, whose father died when she was just a child, had an incredibly close relationship with her mother. She posted a series of photos of her dearly loved mother on Instagram along with a lengthy caption, just days after sharing a video of herself singing to her mother in hospital. Her stepfather Roy Battersby, who was married to Judy for 18 years, had been diagnosed with two forms of cancer before his death. Following his passing, Kate revealed that her mother had also received her diagnosis. Over the past year, Kate had been caring for both her mother and late stepfather, having flown them out from the UK to stay with her in Los Angeles.

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