19/03/2025
Bag drop off at the Royal Bolton Hospital to meet the lovely bereavement team who were so pleased with there bags in there lovely butterfly suite, they liked the idea of giving a child a bag with the different items in. They had some really good bereavement items already but were pleased to add to them.
05/03/2025
Bag drop off at the Royal Oldham Hospital. I met up with Charlotte from The Royal Oldham hospital bereavement team. They cover Oldham, Salford Royal, Fairfield and Rochdale. Charlotte was really pleased with the bags and said they would definitely make use of these.
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7/03/2025
Were really pleased to announce we are Bibliothecas charity of the year. Exciting times to come.
11/03/2025
I recently sent some bereavement bags to the Royal Blackburn bereavement team, they were much appreciated and Rachel the bereavement Practitioner said they were privileged to have received these precious bags.
Santas Grotto
Well we hope you all had a nice Christmas, Lila’s Light was busy all through December with our Santa’s grotto at The Garden House in Marple. The Garden house kindly let us host it on their grounds. It is a lovely place and runs solely on donations, their are many animals to view, a park and a café and also free parking. We once again had lots of support from friends offering to be Santa and elves and they all enjoyed themselves. We gave out over 300 presents and lots of letters were written to Santa. We raised £784.27. We have lost of bags ready to get distributing over the next few months.
Lilas Bereavement bags
Today we spent the day organizing our bereavement bags, a lot of love and care went into these bags, and include lots of lovely items to help siblings at their time of need. We have put together two types of bags, one bag for under nine years of age and then we have an over age nine bag. The under age nine includes handmade knitted dolls made with love and some little knitted love hearts. The bags contain two hearts- one can be given to the sibling that has passed away and the other for the sibling to keep. We have also included stones to paint to remember their loved ones, drawing and crafting items, a notebook, forget me not seeds, a booklet explaining grief and ideas on remembering their loved ones, a story book explaining death, a pocket hug and a few other little surprises. The over nine years of age bags contain similar items however the booklet is more appropriate to their age on explaining grief. It also contains a journal and an angel ornament to remember their loved one.
Finally we have finished our first 140bags ready to distribute.
