COMMUNITY LINKS/SUPPORT
Baby Bank & Uniform Bank
Our Baby Bank and Uniform Banks open several times a year for anyone who needs free school uniform items or children's clothes to just come and take what you need - free of charge!
Our Uniform Bank regularly stocks:
Plain and branded school polo tops and t-shirts from 3-11 years
Plain and branded jumpers, cardigans and hoodies from 3-11 years
Trousers, skirts and pinafores from 3-11 years
Our branded items are mainly for our two local primary schools: Crumlin High Level Primary and Tynewydd Primary, we do occasionally have items for Pentwynmawr and Pantside Primaries as well.
We also offer a bespoke baby supplies service for those in need. This can include nappies, wipes and baby food.
Please get in touch for more information
Bereavement Support
Loss needs to be processed for our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Unresolved grief can also affect our attitudes, relationships and attainment.
The Bereavement Journey® is a place to talk - 7 Sessions of films and discussion for anyone, whether grieving a death now, or wanting to explore a previous bereavement that may be unresolved. This course is for bereaved adults to do their own grief work. It is supported by a Guest Manual and facilitated by volunteers.
Attendance is recommended for all the Sessions, although it is possible to join at Session 2. It is most beneficial to attend at least a few weeks after the death* - ideally after the funeral, but this is not essential and The Bereavement Journey can benefit those in anticipatory grief, also pregnancy loss.
Topics include:
• Attachment, separation and loss
• The pain and responses of grief
• Anger and guilt
• Coping with others’ reactions
• Delayed and suppressed grief
• Adjusting to change
• Moving forward healthily
Faith is reserved for the final, 7th session on Faith Questions in Bereavement, which is optional, making the course suitable for anyone of any faith or none.
The Bereavement Journey is being offered by churches and Christian organisations across the UK and the world. Ideally Guests attend a course in their local area. This page is for booking the Newbridge course and is open to people in that area. If you are based elsewhere, please visit the locations page on www.thebereavementjourney.org/locations before booking, to see whether there is a course nearer that would suit you. If there isn’t please use the link at the top of the same page for the national online course.
We ask people [from outside the UK or] who are wishing to run or learn more about The Bereavement Journey not to register as Guests, but to email info@thebereavememtjourney.org for course involvement opportunities and training.
For other bereavement support services and information visit AtaLoss.org.
* We recommend 10 week minimum after death
Cost: £15
For more information, click here
AtaLoss helps bereaved people find support and wellbeing.
AtaLoss' vision is that no bereaved person in the UK should be left floundering or alone and unable to find support when they need it. They campaign for universal routine referral so that everyone can find timely, appropriate and effective support in the interests of their mental and physical health as well as practical, financial, social and spiritual wellbeing.