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Crocus Child Bereavement Support Service
Why we are here. . . . .
The death of a close relative is a time of great sadness for a family.
For children this can be a confusing and distressing time. There may be unanswered questions about what has happened and the grief of other family members may cause added stress making it hard for the child to talk about their feelings.
We are here to help, support and manage a bereaved child.
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A great wee summary from US grief support charity Eluna of what grieving children need and want their parents/carers to know ...
For more useful resources to help you and your bereaved children, please see our Information and Resources web page https://highlandhospice.org/…/cro…/in formation-and-resources
Thank you True Highlands for supporting our service!
To mark the To Absent Friends festival, we invite you to join us to create a photo mural. We will take instant photographs of your special memory items or pictures and put them together in a display that will become a permanent fixture in our premises. This will be especially meaningful to the children and young people who use the space to be supported through their grief.
Our space will be open over these two evenings for people to share their memories together with refreshments provided and some arts and crafts materials available. We hope you can join us!
We love these quote cards from Youthscape 💜💚💙
Crocus Group are delighted to share some good news - the Robertson Trust are providing £16,000 per year for three years, to help keep our current service running. The Robertson Trust is currently the largest independent grant-making trust in Scotland and has a vision to improve the quality of life and realise the potential of people and communities in Scotland – inspired by the example of their founders, the Robertson Sisters. We are so glad that they recognise the importance of a dedicated service for bereaved young people in Highland and their funding will go a long way to ensuring the sustainability of the support we provide.
We still have some spaces left for our garden-planning session next Friday 28 September at 2.00-4.00pm - if you have been involved with Crocus Group and would like to come along, please do get in touch by emailing us at info@crocusgroup.org.uk
We have secured funding to develop our yard at Crocus HQ into a garden space!
We would love for some of our young people to come along to help design our garden space on Friday 28 September, 2.00-4.00pm here at Crocus HQ. We have space for max 10 children, and a range of ages would be ideal so we can make sure the garden space will suit all our future service users. Get in touch to let us know if you would like to come along!
The summer holidays are almost here! Here at Crocus we will be taking a well-earned extended break over the school holiday period. Any new referrals received from today will be dealt with from mid-August, and also there will be no Crocus Clubs or Squads running over the holidays. We hope you all enjoy the sunshine! http://crocusgroup.org.uk/…/…/summer- holidays-new-referrals/
Young people - have your say!
****Update 21 March - these sessions are now FULL**** If you would like to be on a waiting list in the event of any cancellations, please get in touch!
Only 2 spaces left! Please let us know if you and your child/ren would like to take them ...
... We are pleased to have secured new dates for two sessions at The Clay Studio, Inverness, for our most recent regular Crocus Club attendees and their parent/carer to come along together to make and paint a special item to remember their special person. After the first session, the items will be fired in the kiln, and then can be painted at the second session. This is a lovely opportunity to do some memory making together.
Dates: Tuesday 17 April and Tuesday 8 May
Time: 6.00-7.30pm
Location: The Clay Studio, 33 Grant Street, Inverness, IV3 8BN (parking on-street and a public car park just off Grant Street when you come over Waterloo Bridge)
Cost: £15 for both sessions (this represents a 50% reduction on normal price for Crocus families)
Please let us know if you would like to bring your child/ren to the sessions by 19 March, via phone (01479 714568 or 07470364999) or email to info@crocusgroup.org.uk. There is a maximum of 10 spaces available. Letters of invitation have also been sent out to our most recent regular Crcous Club attendees.
Once places are confirmed, payment is to be made in full in advance of the sessions – details for this will be provided. If there are financial difficulties do get in touch to let us know.
Wear old clothes and prepare to get messy!
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Martin Lewis reminds us that, for some, Mother's Day will be the hardest day of the year ...
***Trigger warning: emotive personal experience of childhood bereavement***
Martin Lewis speaks openly and honestly about his experience of the death of his mother at age 12. He encourages others to acknowledge what has happened and simply be there to listen.
UPDATE: Crocus Club @ the Clay Studio tonight has been POSTPONED.
We will be contacting our regular families with a new date for this session.
For anyone that would benefit from these drop in Information sessions.
True Highlands have very generously donated some of their stunning calendars for 2018 to help Crocus raise some Christmas funds. Calendars are £8.95 each if you are able to collect from Crocus, or £10 if you would like it posted out. An absolute bargain for some beautiful pictures of this spectacular area we live in. If you would like to order one of these please complete the form below and we will raise you an invoice.
http://crocusgroup.org.uk/…/2018-calend ars-order-before-tu…/