Veteran & Blue Light Grief Focus Group

30/10/2025

Pleased to announce that at tomorrow evenings Veteran & Blue Light Grief Focus Group we will be joined by 2 local Vetetans working hard in the community.

Michael Holmes is now Manager at Memoria Doncaster & South Yorkshire Memorial Park & Crematorium he’ll be telling us about the great work memoria are doing to support Veterans.

Sam Grundy will be on Zoom talking to us about PTSD and Op Courage also the amazing work she’s doing at Thorne & District RBL Branch hence the poppy outfit !

We offer a safe space for veterans & blue light personnel & their extended family to share and receive emotional support- a relax non clinical, non service related enviroment.
When working lives have effected how we deal with personal grief .

If you’d like to join us the kettle will be on 5:30pm St Cath’s House in the grounds of tickhill road hospital
Join us in person or on Zoom ( link by request in comments 🔽)

29/10/2025

How stunning is this window display in the village we hold our Life After Loss Grief Cafe . A beautiful tribute .
Thankyou 👏

Good morning.

Our Tickhill funeral home is open until 3pm today.
If we can help or answer any questions you may have, please call in to say hello 🤗 👋

28/10/2025

26/10/2025

Precisely why we founded our Focus Group. Being there for someone in their darkest hour means they have hope which, is always an option …..

Robert 💙

24/10/2025

Take a good look at these 2 photos . What do you really see?….

The one on the right is me not looking my best and in need of a hug . The only one that ever grounded me and made me feel safe . A DAD HUG

Today all I have is his old dressing gown that hangs on the empty peg behind me . Today this is my hug .

No matter how old me are or how tough our exterior that shows up everyday we all need something or some one from time to time

21/10/2025

Support RBLI

17/10/2025

Veterans can now apply for and download a secure digital version of the HM Armed Forces Veteran Card via the GOV.UK One Login app.

16/10/2025

We know that this time of year can be difficult for some members of the Armed Forces community.

Here's some tips on how you can help yourself and others if you're affected.

14/10/2025

Final few places remaining on our Wellness Workshop tomorrow. Who’d like to join us ? 🔽

12/10/2025

When we are grieving we can easily become overwhelmed.
People often know, for example, that they need to do important paperwork, but will procrastinate or simply ignore it because their brains just cannot cope. They are in fight or flight mode.

It may be that their person was the one that always did the paperwork in their relationship. The very thought of having to do something their loved one had previously done, It’s just too overwhelming, too painful.

As time moves on, they may consider how they could fill their time .
Volunteering is an option many consider but again the very thought of having to do this, the process of going about it is just too overwhelming. So, they simply do nothing.

If that griever is neurodivergent, has ADHD or dyslexia, for example they may have always had support from their loved one to help with day-to-day tasks. Now that person is no longer available. Everything seems just too much.

Offering practical help when someone is bereaved could be a lifeline. It may be they struggle with technology, which can lead them to feel isolated, frustrated or bring up childhood trauma of being labeled stupid . At the very least unable to access services.

Here’s a simple tip, a suggestion of a way that can be practically helpful.
The offer of trip out or pop round for a coffee and setting up alarms or turning off notifications on their phone or iPad maybe invaluable to them and ease their anxiety. Sometimes it’s the little things that can make the biggest differences .

09/10/2025

❤️ Heart of Doncaster Awards 2025 ❤️

✨ Meet your finalists ✨

Choose Kindness Award - Community Group 🏆

Finalist one - Friends of Clay Lane
Finalist two - Tracy Beavis - Found My Niche CIC

Find out who wins tomorrow ❤️

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