National Bereaved Parents Day 2022

The Compassionate Friends are once again supporting National Bereaved Parents Day on 3 July 2022.

This year National Bereaved Parents Day will take place on Sunday 3rd July to raise awareness of parental grief. On this day and throughout July (Bereaved Parents Month) we will be remembering all bereaved parents and who are bereaved of a child of any age and from any cause.

Please join us to help spread the message, keep that conversation going, raise awareness and show the bereaved parent community that they are NOT alone.

Please follow our Facebook page to see how you can get involved and show your support. The theme of this year's day is Remember Me. Throughout July we will be sharing here many of the the wonderful and inspiring ways we honour and remember our precious children. We also publish a leaflet entitled Remembering Our Child and a Handbook of Ideas for Remembering Our Child

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Charlotte's bus

Posted by Carolyn Brice on 18 June 2021 at 15:23

"Charlotte’s bus is used by St. John Fisher’s Primary School in Denton where she was deputy head.

We bought it in 2017 with money from our daughter Charlotte Conlon’s estate.

It is well known in the area being quite distinctive.

It helps us as we know she is still helping the children and school she loved".

Amanda and Dennis

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Alexandra's story

Posted by Carolyn Brice on 18 June 2021 at 15:14

"This is my Memorial Garden to my lovely son David who died nearly a year ago. I can't get to his grave very often and like to go out in my backyard in the morning and a spend time of reflection with my coffee - as before he left home I'd spent my life getting up in the morning with him.

I haven't got a lot of money so went to the charity shop and found a Supermario figure and the Amazing Mr Fox - both things he liked. I also found a stone in the garden he had roughly painted so that's in the wheel barrow and a mussel shell from a caravan holiday at Seton Sands 13 years ago which was in the garden. I had the broken pot already and saw these mini- gardens on YouTube. My friend bought me a gnome to paint, not knowing I have this little garden so it will have a new addition soon.

I have a little stool I take out in the mornings and look at the wee garden and know David would think: Mum, what are you doing? But I know the young David would love it. I wanted to share to show that a memory garden doesn't need loads of space - you could make one in a pot, planter or basin and enjoy. I haven't been up to tending my garden but have spent a lot of time on this".

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