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.
Safina's story
Safina lost her son Joe aged 23 in sudden unexpected unexplained circumstances on 22nd September 2019. She shares here a video about the beautiful balcony garden she has made for Joe.
Blue Spirit Sailing Bursaries
My son, Laury, died by suicide from suspected schizophrenia on 1st July 2020 and a friend and I have set up a bursary fund to help young people go sailing.
Jeannette's story
My son, Mark Daniels, was stolen by cancer a mere 7 weeks after diagnosis, aged 35. There was still so much I wanted to say to him and still do. So I write letters to him in exercise books. Just a page or 2 every few days; words of love, sadness, old memories shared and new memories made since he was taken that we couldn't physically share. 11 books so far.
Fiona's story
Our aim was to build new memories, in our son’s name, for his son.
Kim's story
Megan’s garden was created not long after my 17 year old daughter Megan died 5 days after a car accident in which she was a passenger. It is a place for family and Megan's friends to visit. It was only able to be created because of funds raised by friends, family and complete strangers who did all sorts of fundraising events. We are eternally grateful to them all.
Tom's garden
Tom was born 8th April 1991. He had designs on a career in the Police, and was a Special Constable, a voluntary unpaid role. It was while he was working a night shift as a Special that he had an epiphany and realised that for him teaching would give him more opportunities to have a positive influence on young people. From that moment there was no turning back and he completed his degree in Maths teaching at Birmingham University in 2016, and went to teach at an upper school.
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Each year thousands of parents suffer the loss of a son or a daughter. Please help us to support families in their time of greatest need.
