03/12/2025
🌟🌟 Volunteers Who Save Lives, Literally 🌟
On , we want to share how we, as volunteers, have grown through our own personal journeys.
For many of us, volunteering began in the depths of grief. Personally, as a baby loss mum, it gave me space to heal, to try new things, and to discover coping skills. It gave me the courage to loud and proud.
Our mission is simple: to share because we care. We don’t claim to be experts. What we do is signpost to incredible charities and community projects, offering people choice, removing the awkwardness around grief, and creating supportive pathways.
We learned to be parents within a community that understood the goal: that losing a child, at any age, means losing a part of yourself. Grief is exhausting, but it is also deeply heartfelt.
Many of our team craft tiny baby cribs for little ones born before 20 weeks — knowing how much it would have meant to them when they faced their own loss. And our oldest volunteer, at 94 years old, blind yet still knitting beautiful baby hats, shows that love and remembrance know no limits.
Behind every act of kindness in our community stands a volunteer — someone who has chosen to turn their pain into purpose. Many are bereaved parents or people who have walked through the shadows of loss themselves. They know, in the deepest sense, what it means to sit with grief. That lived experience makes their support life-changing.
Through Bereavement Counselling Level 3 training and our Pathway programmes, they are not only learning skills — they are saving lives. Every conversation, every moment of listening, every hand held in silence is an act of courage and compassion.
We are so proud of them all. They are more than volunteers; they are friends who have become family. Together, they create a network of care where no one has to face loss alone.
💜 To our volunteers: thank you for showing that love can grow even in the hardest places. You remind us daily that remembrance is not just about looking back — it’s about building forward, with hope, dignity, and community.