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Christmas - Facebook Memorials

Christmas is starting to creep up on us all. We are delighted to share with you our Christmas Memorials. Would you like to see your son, daughter, brother or sister's name on one of our Christmas memorials to be included in a post on our Facebook page in the two weeks leading up to Christmas.

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    Baby Loss - Facebook Memorials

    Baby Loss Awareness week is coming up very soon. Would you like to see your son, daughter, brother or sister's name on one of our profile picture on Facebook during awareness week.  

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    Baby Loss Awareness Week

    Baby Loss Awareness Week in the UK Every year since 2002 from 9th - 15th October is Baby Loss Awareness Week. Throughout the week bereaved parents, family members and friends can commemorate the all-too-brief lives of their babies., knowing that thousands of other families elsewhere in the world will be doing the same. The week also provides a crucial opportunity for people to talk openly about the subject of and raise awareness of baby loss.

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    Newsletter 2024 - Issue two

    The latest Brief Lives - Remembered" Newsletter is now out - The newsletter includes: news, stories, poems and memorial services.if you would like to recieve a copy please feel free to contact us.


    Prayers / Words Service

    We are often asked by families  as to whether we know of a vicar or non-religious celebrant who can say a prayer or some special words at their baby’s grave..

    We have been putting together a database of people across the UK who would be willing to offer their services and are proud to anounce that there is an ever growing number of people offering their help. Read more...


    Statement of Intention

    Terminology / Language We Use - As you may already be aware in the last two decades the language that is used when a baby dies seems to be far from the reality of what you, the families have lived through. We also believe it is not fitting with decades to which your babies died or were stillborn..Read more...


    Facebook

    We have finally entered the world of social media and have set up a Facebook page so that we can get our charity out there and more parents can find us.

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    Brief Lives - Remembered, 20th Anniversary

    July 2024 is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Brief lives - Remembered. We are so incredibly proud of what we have achieved in this time and very excited to look to the future of our unique charity.

    We would like to take ths oppurtunity to thank all our families, and the amazing people and organisations who have helped to make this happen.


    The Lone Twin - Helen's Story

    Helen Hone-Millard talks movingly in this documentary about her twin sister who was stillborn at their birth in May 1968 and the effects on her and her parents lives

    Directed & Edited by Alasdair Millard

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    Guardian Newspaper

    A beautifully written editorial about the work of "Brief Lives - Remembered" was published in the Guardian newspaper.on he 28th May 2024. The piece included the stories of four of our "Brief Lives - Remembered" families;

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    Newsletter 2024 - Issue one

    The latest Brief Lives - Remembered" Newsletter is now out- The newsletter includes: news, stories, poems and memorial services.if you would like to recieve a copy please feel free to contact us.


    Movement for Good

    The Benefact Group, does financial services differently – we give all available profits to charity and good causes. Movement for Good is our annual programme of giving that anyone can get involved in, and again this year we’ll be donating over £1 million to charities and good causes nominated by you. Read more....