Walking Together – a guide to planning TCF walks for grieving parents and siblings

8 June 2021, 19.00 – 20.00

ONLINE via Zoom

BOOKING HAS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT. If you would like to attend please email info@tcf.org.uk by 6.00 pm this evening - 8 June 2021.

We are delighted to confirm that TCF are restarting a series of London walks for bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents led by bereaved dad, Terry Ahern. Information about each of the walks will be shared on the TCF website.

These walks proved popular in 2018 and 2019 and would have continued but for the pandemic.

As a result of the feedback we have received about the walks, we recognise that not everyone is able to travel to the capital but that there is a demand to extend these walks to other parts of the country as well.

We very much hope to encourage other volunteers to organise regional walks in their area as a means of offering this useful support to more bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents.

Walking is a very therapeutic and healing pastime and the informality of a group of walkers has been found to be very supportive. Many people used Terry’s walks as their first step (pardon the pun!) towards meeting other bereaved parents and siblings as it is less formal than a support group and can feel more relaxed.

In order for you to see what that would entail, Terry has offered to host a one hour Zoom session where he will share his experience leading TCF walks. Terry will use the time to offer you the basics for leading a successful walk and there will also be time for questions too. We hope that after the session many more volunteers will be confident to offer some walks in their area either on an ad hoc basis or as a regular event.

Please do join us if you feel that this is something that you would be interested in offering locally. There is no obligation to commit to this by joining the session. It may be that you are simply thinking about leading walks and just want to see if this is for you.

We suggest that it would be helpful if you were 3 or more years from your bereavement and we do ask you to complete some short paperwork before leading a walk. Please note that this event is for bereaved parents or siblings in the UK only.

Once you register for this event, we will send you the Zoom link via email a few days before 8 June. Look forward to seeing you there to find out more about leading TCF walks.