Lanyon Bowdler Supports LEGACY
Start the conversation…its the best legacy you can leave those you love most.
Katy’s Blog #11 – CEDAR CIC delivers research findings at Centre for Death & Society Conference 2015
Overall the conference was a great display of how the topic of death is an ever increasing subject of study, debate and research worldwide for professionals in numerous fields of study, whether it be medicine, sociology, anthropology, or psychology, and will continue to be a matter which undoubtedly sees professionals agreeing that death should be a topic which needs to be talked about.
Death & Its Futures
Dr Wester & Mrs Walker to present research paper at International Conference 6th June 2015
Katy’s Blog #10: Further Life Lessons for the Youth Health Champions
The CEDAR CIC held another of its now popular ‘Life Lessons’ workshop, this time at the Grange Youth Centre, Shrewsbury. The participants were from the Young Health Champions NHS programme. There were 6 young participants from the programme and a volunteer who attended a previous session and wanted to get more involved in helping out. This Life Lessons workshop had the youngest participants to date, ranging from age 10 up to 24. The Life Lessons this time round involved…
CEDAR Supports the Peter Day Exhibition
Pictures of My Father – 21st March to 4th April Surface Gallery, 16 Southwell Road, Nottingham NG1 1DL CEDAR CIC is very pleased to be supporting this wonderful exhibition at the Surface Gallery in Nottingham. This exhibition came about as a means to explore personal grief and bereavement. Dr Day, a professional photographer and lecturer, chose his lens to help him explore what loss is, what it is not, and what is imagined in ‘nothingness’. Well worth seeing. Here is…
CEDAR CIC Luncheon with the NHS, The Grange School, And Young Health Champions team
Recently CEDAR CIC hosted a luncheon and invited along previous attendees of one of the Life lessons workshops. These were students from The Grange high school in Shrewsbury, together with representatives from The Youth Health Champion programme that have been working with and supporting CEDAR Life lessons. Also CEDAR had the honour of a special guest Mr Giles Wilmore who is Director for Patient & Public Voice & Information, NHS England. The luncheon was a chance for Mr…
Katy’s blog #8 ‘Designs in Mind’ and The ‘Good Grief’ Leaf Project
‘Designs in Mind’ and The ‘Good Grief’ Leaf Project On behalf of CEDAR CIC, I recently visited an inspiring group of people who meet every week in Oswestry at ‘Designs in Mind’, which was previously known as ‘The Project Group’. I interviewed a lady named Lianna who attends the group and she explained to me that everyone who goes to the group benefits greatly through making art and crafts and how this helps their mental health and wellbeing. It was…
Katy’s Blog #7 -‘Day of the Dead’
Day of the Dead and the YHC promotional day with CEDAR C.I.C. I was back again with the Young Health Champions and CEDAR C.I.C. as we celebrated the ‘Day of the Dead’ otherwise known as Halloween or all souls day. Not only was this a celebration at this most poignant time in our calendar, this was also the first day of opening for a new facility for the Young Health Champions in Shropshire. Located at the Riverside shopping centre in…
The UK debate heats up over physician-assisted suicide
Click on this image to read the article from the Observer dated 8 November 2014 on the UK Physician-assisted Suicide Bill and watch the video link below about the House of Lords debate. Lord Falconer proposes this end-of-life choice should be available within two years time for people who have six months or less to live. Do you agree? Disagree? Let us know your views.
