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CEDAR CIC Luncheon with the NHS, The Grange School, And Young Health Champions team

04/03/2015

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

18/02/2015

‘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’

18/11/2014

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

17/11/2014

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.

Katy’s Blog #6 – Good Grief

17/11/2014

‘Good Grief’ the Young Health Champions take it further! After the completion of the initial CEDAR ‘Life Lessons’ workshop, a focus group was created with the Young Health Champion participants to collect their feedback on the programme. They were very positive and the participants were requesting to learn more! So this led to the development of a second level of education that would allow more information to be taught about how to respond to grief and how to help others.…

Peter Walker gives CEDAR a new look

05/11/2014

Peter Walker Designs

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

05/11/2014

Having just won the coveted 2014 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction, we thought we should feature Helen MacDonald’s book ‘H is for Hawk’ here. It tells the story of how her father’s death prompted Helen to follow a childhood dream and become a falconer. She discusses how the experience of working with a bird of prey, being in natural surroundings and feeling her soul sore with the bird helped her to gain a new insight into death, grief and loss.…

YHC launches new space

04/11/2014

CEDAR helps at YHC Launch

Katy’s Blog #5–Away with the birds

03/11/2014

Now, many would wonder – including me – what have birds got to do with learning about death and dying?

Katy’s Blog #4–Day of the Dead:

23/10/2014

Cedar held the second day of ‘Life Lessons’ and all the Youth Health Champions turned up, including one more! This was not a surprise as it had been a captivating lesson that was held the day before, and so the participants seemed eager to learn more. On this day, we were introduced to the ‘Day of the Dead’, which sounds as if it is going to be about something morbid and yet on the contrary was full of colour, brightness,…