The Margaret Kerr Unit & Palliative Care Service in the Borders

07/01/2025

For anyone that attended our Christmas workshop event, the wooden memory baubles are now available to collect from the Margaret Kerr unit reception if you would like to take yours home.

We have also found a pair of glasses over by the couch area if these belong to anyone?

04/12/2024

We are holding a Christmas event in the Margaret Kerr Unit on Tuesday 17th December 2024, 17:30pm until 19:30pm🎄✨

Join us for a night of Christmas carols, hot drinks, home baking, remembrance poems & memory baubles workshops. Please wrap up warm as this will be an inside/outside event☃️

Please contact our Secretary, Lindi Coltman on 01896 827914 to confirm attendance as spaces will be limited.

27/11/2024

We have noticed recently that people have been painting their own pebbles and adding these to the pebble patch outside the unit, these look amazing and thank you for contributing! - but if you would like to add to the patch please bring your pebble into the reception area and we can varnish them before being placed outside. This ensures that your lovely designs last longer!💜

Thank you, everyone🥰

27/11/2024

Thank you to everyone that came along to our ‘to absent friends festival 2024’ event! 💜

If you painted a pebble, these are now on display in the pebble patch just outside of the unit.

Keep an eye on this page for more information coming soon for our Christmas event👀

31/10/2024

For the ‘To Absent Friends Festival 2024’ (1st - 7th November 2024) we will holding a free workshop event in the Margaret Kerr Unit on Thursday 7th November from 17:00pm till 19:00pm.

There will be a pebble painting workshop and a remembrance poem workshop, these will have limited spaces so please give our secretary, Lindi Coltman a call on 01896 827914 if you would like to attend to book your time slot. These sessions are suitable for children too.

There will also be tea/coffee and home baking.

If you have experienced the loss of a loved one please feel free to join the workshop.

25/10/2024

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We still have lots of spaces for our free workshop sessions! Give us a phone on 01896 827 914 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm to book in. These sessions are suitable for children too.

There will also be cakes and refreshments🍰

These sessions are open to anyone that has experienced the loss of a loved one.

For the ‘To Absent Friends Festival 2024’ (1st - 7th November 2024) we will holding a free workshop event in the Margaret Kerr Unit on Thursday 7th November from 17:00pm till 19:00pm.

There will be a pebble painting workshop and a remembrance poem workshop, these will have limited spaces so please give our secretary, Lindi Coltman a call on 01896 827914 if you would like to attend to book your time slot. These sessions are suitable for children too.

There will also be tea/coffee and home baking.

If you have experienced the loss of a loved one please feel free to join the workshop.

02/05/2024

There are still plenty spaces for tile making and pebble painting. Please give us a call on 01896827914 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm to book your slot.

If you have had an impact from loss please feel free to join the workshop.

For ‘Demystifying Death Week’ (6th-12th May 2024) we will holding a workshop event in the Margaret Kerr Unit on Tuesday 7th May from 1:00pm until 4:00pm.

There will be a pebble painting workshop and a memory tile workshop, these will have limited spaces so please give our secretary, Lindi Coltman a call on 01896 827 914 if you would like to attend to book your slot.

There will also be tea/coffee and home baking.

If you have had an impact from loss please feel free to join the workshop.

29/04/2024

There are still plenty spaces for tile making and pebble painting! Please give us a call on 01896827914 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm to book your slot.

If you have had an impact from loss please feel free to join the workshop.

For ‘Demystifying Death Week’ (6th-12th May 2024) we will holding a workshop event in the Margaret Kerr Unit on Tuesday 7th May from 1:00pm until 4:00pm.

There will be a pebble painting workshop and a memory tile workshop, these will have limited spaces so please give our secretary, Lindi Coltman a call on 01896 827 914 if you would like to attend to book your slot.

There will also be tea/coffee and home baking.

If you have had an impact from loss please feel free to join the workshop.

27/03/2024

For ‘Demystifying Death Week’ (6th-12th May 2024) we will holding a workshop event in the Margaret Kerr Unit on Tuesday 7th May from 1:00pm until 4:00pm.

There will be a pebble painting workshop and a memory tile workshop, these will have limited spaces so please give our secretary, Lindi Coltman a call on 01896 827 914 if you would like to attend to book your slot.

There will also be tea/coffee and home baking.

If you have had an impact from loss please feel free to join the workshop.

15/03/2024

In December we held a Christmas workshop event in the Margaret Kerr Unit to celebrate Christmas. We would like to thank all those that came along and to everyone that volunteered/donated, we couldn’t have done it without you.

We would also like to thank Brian Sutherland for his photography, he has done a great job in capturing the event.

If anyone that created a memory bauble for the Christmas tree would like to collect theirs, they will be available to pick up at the Margaret Kerr Unit reception desk.