TCF News, Winter 2020

Winter 2020 - TCF Newsletter | www.tcf.org.uk 7 The TCF story in the time of Covid A Message from Ruth Mercier, Volunteer & Helpline Manager Friday 13 November 2020 was Individual Acts of Kindness Day in the UK, a day to celebrate acts of kindness in all its forms– and so I just wanted to say that our experience of all of you, our wonderful volunteers and donating members in this Covid time has been of not just one day but ongoing continuous acts of individual and collective kindness from the start of the first Lockdown in March through to now. From the outset, so many of you just wanted to know how to help and to ensure our support was able to continue. Since March, there have been so many wonderfully generous and kind ways in which those of you who are volunteers have been directly supporting our bereaved community. Many of you, both volunteers and donating members also either set up or have taken part in a wide range of fundraising activities to provide much needed funds to enable us to continue to offer a wide range of support to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents. Without your kindness and generosity, we would not be able to provide the level of support we have been able to in these constrained times. Our warm thanks and gratitude to you all. Each of us knows the value of peer support as this is what TCF has been all about for the last 51 years– in having a hand of kindness extended to us in the early days of our loss, we want so much to be able to do the same for others beginning this journey. In the words of Amelia Earhardt, “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees”. “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees”. QUOTE BY AMELIA EARHART