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HH Global Christmas Gifting Tree
A huge thankyou from us all at Star Bereavement to HH Global Wakefield Facebook HH Global had the idea of creating a gifting tree this Christmas for the young people

Halloween Fundraiser
We’ve had some amazing support from brilliant organisations and businesses across Wakefield over Halloween at Star Bereavement. The Car Shop, Dewsbury Dental Centre and Ridley and Hall Solicitors have all

Prosper present Star Bereavement…
Written by prosper: ‘Brightening up your Friday as we present the wonderful team at Star Bereavement with a cheque from our small grants round for £16,802 Star Bereavement are a Wakefield

The Swift Society fundraise for Star Bereavement…
A big Thankyou to Freyja and the team at the University of Huddersfield ‘The swift society’. Freyja and the team held an amazing book sale stall including crafts, Taylor Swift

Star Bereavement Networking Day
Today our Star Bereavement team attended a networking event hosted by Wakefield Families Together, for local charities and community clubs at The Hut in Airedale. An amazing community space for

Thanks to Skinny Living at Heath common
To all the Skinny Living fans at Heath common on Sunday …. we’d like to say a massive thank you to all who donated to Star Bereavement ! We raised

Car Shop – Star Bereavement Car
Car Shop Wakefield decorated one of their cars with Star Bereavement young peoples design for our Star Fest event . . . and WOW!!! What a great way to celebrate

Jade’s fundraiser
Thank you to Jade’s family and friends for supporting Star Bereavement Please be advised this is an emotional read: ‘Jade was the happiest she had ever been when having her

HH Global Tough Mudder 10k Challenge
A huge thankyou to the amazing HH Global Wakefield in their Tough Mudder challenge in support of Star Bereavement. Liz Ibbetson-Bristow, Jodie Barker and James Nicholls are taking have taken

Star Fest 2023
Thank you to everyone who supported and attended Star Fest 2023. We raised an amazing £1629.26 for Star Bereavement and could not be more grateful!! This money will go towards

Thankyou to Lucas
We’d like to thank Lucas Blackwell and all who donated for raising an incredible £1400 for Star Bereavement! Lucas’ event was a celebration of his dad’s life, a life which

Horbury Show 2023
Thankyou to everyone who visited us at Horbury Show this year, we loved seeing you all and appreciated your support! Such a great community event for everyone to enjoy and

HH Global raise money for Star
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The Ladies Circle chooses Star Bereavement as their charity of the year!
How amazing! Wakefield District Ladies Circle have chosen us as their charity of the year! The Ladies circle is a group that is based in the local community. The group

Seasons For Growth – Theraputic Group
The last 6 months of 2021 our Bereavement Practitioners have been running a programme called Seasons for Growth. Seasons for Growth is a grief based programme which uses the seasons

Beverley Bishops ‘Finding Magic’ workshop at Star Bereavement
Actor and therapist Beverley Bishop took her acclaimed one-woman theatre show ‘Finding Magic’ to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, and on her way up to Edinburgh she visited us

Donation in memory of Jonathan Carrington from the Carrington family
We have very gratefully received a donation in memory of Jonathan Carrington of £650 from the Carrington family. Jonathan’s story as written by Tina Carrington: Our son died in 2019.

Donation in memory of Chris Edwards
We have very gratefully received a donation in memory of Chris Edwards of over £900 from his family and friends. Chris’s sister remembers him as an all round lovely person,

Volunteer with us !
Star are looking for volunteers aged 18+ to help out with our peer support groups! Experience with Children and Young People is a must ! Must be available on evenings

Star’s first group in the new activity building !
On Saturday, Star Bereavement held a memory journal group, where children and young people turned scrapbooks into memory journals, personalised by themselves, to keep precious memories of their special person/people

Feedback from children and young people who have attended recent groups at Star
Receiving feedback from children and young people is extremely important to us at Star. It allows us to know what to improve on, what is working, and to understand the

We are recruiting!
Are you looking for an exciting new role supporting children and young people? Star Bereavement are seeking to appoint a passionate, skilled and experienced Senior Practitioner To lead on the

Star’s new activity building !
Over the summer, Star will be running a variety of different activity sessions, and therapeutic sessions at Caduceus House/ First Steps Day Nursery in Wakefield. Star will also be running

Groups at Star
Take a look at the range of different peer support group sessions Star have delivered

Peter Duffy Ltd donates to Star
The entire team at Star are beyond grateful to have received the wonderful donation of £250 from Peter Duffy’s Ltd.