Nowton Park Walk

15 June 2024, 10.15 – 13.00

Nowton Park, Bury St Edmunds

BOOKINGS FOR THIS WALK HAVE NOW CLOSED. We're sorry to have missed you this time, please check our website regularly for future walks.

Bereaved parents and volunteer walk facilitators, Teresa and Shirley are planning their next walk at Nowton Park in Bury St Edmunds for Saturday 15 June. Meet at 10.15 am for a 10.30 am start.

Shirley and Teresa write:

This is a supportive group walk and all bereaved parents, adult bereaved siblings and grandparents will be made to feel very welcome. These walks are free and are designed to offer you an opportunity to socialise and chat with others who understand, as well as to offer some exercise to support our mental and physical wellbeing. 

The walk will be at a steady pace and fairly short at approximately 2 miles (for around an hour), and our route will take us through short sections of wooded area.

This time we invite you to bring a picnic/packed lunch which we hope we can enjoy outdoors together after our walk (weather permitting). We can also buy refreshments at the park café after the walk. 

There are public toilets available by the café from 8am – 6pm, including an accessible toilet. The park is free to enter but you will have to pay for parking if you need it.

We look forward to meeting those who have walked with us before, and also welcoming those who are new to our walks. If you haven’t yet walked with us, please don’t feel daunted or apprehensive about joining. You will very quickly find yourself in a friendly, supportive community of other bereaved parents.

We hope very much that you will join us.

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Please note that our peer support is for parents bereaved of a child from one month old to an adult son or daughter, from any cause.

We are sorry but if you are less than 3 months bereaved, we ask that you wait until you are 3 months or more bereaved before accessing our support walks – new walk dates are added on a regular basis here. We hope to welcome you at a future walk.

Please be aware that your email address will be given to our walk facilitators so that they can be in contact with you closer to the time. Teresa and Shirley will be sending out a welcome email about a week before the walk to give you more information and meeting point details. Please look out for it and please also be aware that it can sometimes go into junk or spam folders, so do check there if you have registered for the walk and haven't received details.

Please note that if you bring along a friend or relative with you for initial support, they will be unable to join us for the walk itself unless they are also a bereaved parent, grandparent or adult bereaved sibling.

As this is a supportive walk, we ask that we stay together as a group for the duration the walk. Thankyou. 

Please register your interest/book for this walk by clicking on the 'Book for this walk' button below.

BOOKINGS FOR THIS WALK HAVE NOW CLOSED. We're sorry to have missed you this time, please check our website regularly for future walks.