When you do your shopping at Kendal Asda - Tigerlily Trust has been accepted as part of their green token scheme, so if you chose to give us your green tokens when you shop we will be in the running for some funding! There is no minimum spend, just ask for your tokens and pop them in the Tigerlily Trust collection point in the store foyer, we're the yellow shoot. Winner = £500 2nd and 3rd = £200 so it would help us to give more Remembrance Boxes and Miscarriage Care packages to our hospitals. Please help us by sharing our post on Facebook and telling your family and friends, it would help us hugely to win this to help us continue the work we do supporting bereaved families after the death of their beloved baby or child. Thank you everyone, we are nominated through to July - please share share share! Huge thanks, Val x x x

 Lune Park Children's Centre, Owen Road, Lancaster. LA1 2LN

Lune Park Children's Centre, Owen Road, Lancaster. LA1 2LN

We are very pleased to say that we have secured our new venue for the Lancaster Support Group Meeting for bereaved parents who have suffered the loss of their baby or child - the next meeting is at Lune Park Children's Centre on Friday 21st April 1-3pm. We still need to sign in at the reception desk. There is free parking. This building is in Rylands Park and is accessed via Owen Road. Further dates are as follows, 2nd Friday in each month -

          12^th May - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          9^th June - open to all bereaved parents

          14^th July - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          11^th August - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          8th September - open to all bereaved parents

          13th October - newly bereaved (last 3yrs)

          10th November  - newly bereaved (last 3yrs)

          8th December - open to all bereaved parents

Look forward to connecting with you there, if you have any questions please contact Val either via the Tigerlily Trust Facebook page or email enquiries@tigerlilytrust.co.uk  Many thanks, Val x

Next months meeting will be held at Lune Park Children's Centre on Friday 10th March 2-3.30pm in meeting room 1. We still need to sign in at the reception desk but then the meeting room is upstairs in a quiet part of the building. There is free parking. This may just be a temporary venue as they cannot take any bookings after March as yet. We are still looking at other potential venues. This building is in Rylands Park and is accessed via Owen Road. Look forward to connecting with you there, Val x

Sadly, due to closure we will be holding our last Support Group Meeting at Firbank Children's Centre, Lancaster on Thursday 16th February rather than Friday. Usual time 2-3.30pm. We are searching for a new venue and will keep you informed of any developments. We wish to say a huge thank you to the team at Firbank who have looked after us so well, and wish them every success in the future. Many thanks, Val x x x

Wherever you are on your journey through grief there are warm hugs and support here for you.

 "I felt like I was the only person in the world who had a baby that had died." Mother.

If you would like to meet other bereaved parents in your local area there are groups in Lancaster, Barrow-in-Furness and Kendal.

We are very pleased to be offering support meetings once a month for bereaved parents. If you have lost your precious baby or child you are very welcome to come along and have a safe, compassionate and understanding place to share with other bereaved parents. We create a gentle and nurturing space where we will 'hold the space' for you to be able to share and connect if you wish to, or simply be, if that's what will serve you best. 

If you require any further information or would simply like to ask something to help you feel more comfortable to attend, please email Val at enquiries@tigerlilytrust.co.uk

I look forward to connecting with you there, love and light, Val x x x

To be held at:-

Lancaster

Firbank Children's Centre, Firbank Rd, Lancaster, Lancashire. LA1 3HL  2pm - 3.30pm

Monthly meetings - two months for newly bereaved parents (within the last 3 years) then the third month is open to all bereaved parents, including those with historical losses.

Monthly meetings – held on the 3^rd Friday in every month. Two months for newly bereaved parents (within the last 3 years) then the third month is open to all bereaved parents, including those with historical losses.

Dates – 20^th January - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

           17th February - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          17^th March – open to all bereaved parents

          21^st April - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          19^th May - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          16^th June - open to all bereaved parents

          21^st July - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          18^th August - newly bereaved meeting (last 3yrs)

          15th September - open to all bereaved parents

          20th October - newly bereaved (last 3yrs)

          17th November  - newly bereaved (last 3yrs)

          15th December - open to all bereaved parents

Kendal

Riverside Hotel, Stramongate Bridge, Beezon Rd, Kendal, Cumbria. LA9 6EL  6pm - 8pm

Monthly meetings for newly bereaved parents (within the last 3 years) 

Dates - 2nd January 2017

            6th February 2017

            6^th  March 2017

            3^rd April 2017

            1^st May 2017

            5^th June 2017

            3^rd July 2017

            7^th August 2017

            4th September  2017

            2nd October  2017

            6th November  2017

            4th December 2017

Barrow-in-Furness

Sure Start Centre, Greengate Children's Centre, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. LA14 1BG  

Monthly meetings held on the 2^nd and 4^th Monday in every month.

                    9^th and 23rd January 2017

                    13^th and 27^th February 2017

                    13^th and 27^th March 2017

                    10^th and 24^th April 2017

                    8^th and 22^nd May 2017

                   12^th and 26th June 2017

                   10^th and 24th July 2017

                   14^th and 28^th August 2017

                   11^th and 25th September 2017

                   9^th and 23rd October 2017

                   13^th and 27th November 2017

                   11th December 2017

If you are wishing to attend but would like to check in with us beforehand you can contact Rebecca Bleackley at FGH Maternity Unit on 01229 491098 or email Bereavement.Midwives@mbht.nhs.uk or email Val at enquiries@tigerlilytrust.co.uk

One to One Support

If you would like to meet up with a bereaved Mother one to one this can be arranged for you.

" all I wanted was to talk to another bereaved Mother who understood " Mother.

Many of us know first hand how much comfort and support simply talking to another bereaved parent can give. The reassurance of talking to someone else who has been affected by the death of a baby or child and who is nearby to meet is invaluable. Sometimes just sitting together and sharing our hearts can be the most healing balm. Please email Val at enquiries@tigerlilytrust.co.uk who can arrange this for you.

Please don't feel alone with your feelings, we are here for you, just reach out and take our hand.

Much love and light, Val x x x

International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

Tigerlily Trust Remembrance Celebration 2016

Venue: Outback Hall, Leven Valley CE Primary School, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria. LA12 8QF
Saturday October 15th 2016 - 6.45pm Start

International Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day + Global Wave of Light

We invite you to join us along with family and friends for a very special evening remembering and celebrating all our babies and children gone to soon.
On this special date, International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, we will light candles and be part of the global wave of light around the world. It will be an evening of remembering and honouring our babies, sharing and connecting with those who have travelled this path and those who helping us to travel it, a beautiful celebration with loved ones, our families and friends. 

If you would like to come along, please join our event on Facebook - Tigerlily Trust Remembrance Celebration to help us prepare for accommodating you.
Come early to allow time for candle lighting 6.15pm should give ample time for you to arrive gently and settle in.
There will be tea and coffee afterwards and time to talk and connect with each other.
This year we are at a larger venue to accomodate everyone comfortably, it is beautifully situated and there is plenty of parking at the Outback Hall which is just off the A590 at Backbarrow. 

 We hope to see you there, please arrive early to allow time for candle lighting, message or email me with any questions, I will do my best to answer - enquiries@tigerlilytrust.co.uk

We understand that some of you may wish to join us for the Remembrance Celebration but be unable to - with this in mind we would like to offer you a way to include your precious babies too. If you send us their name in an email we will honour them by lighting a candle for them and speaking their name with all our babies during the ceremony.
United we honour our precious ones, together we help each other to heal.
Love and blessings, Val x x x

Thank you to University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust for blessing us with the 2016 Fundraiser Of The Year Award! It is an absolute honour to accept this award on behalf of everyone who had supported and helped us in any way to continue our much needed work. Without our volunteers and fundraisers we wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand for our services, so we are beyond grateful for all your kind and generous support.

I want to share, for all the bereaved parents who can't imagine they will ever feel real, authentic joy and happiness ever again - you will - one day, when you least expect it, something will trigger it, as receiving this award did for me. It took me a while to realise why what I was feeling felt so hugely significant, it was because I hadn't felt like this since before Lily died, and I had accepted that I may never feel real joy ever again. Experiencing such profound loss does this, makes you believe you will never be truly happy again. So it took me by surprise, to realise that this unfamiliar, strangely powerful emotion I was feeling was in fact pure joy and happiness, it stayed with me briefly, I wanted to cling to that feeling, but it passed. But now I know it is possible, to feel deep, authentic, pure, joy again after loss. Little by little, as we heal, tiny sparks of joy will return. Part of me will always grieve for my child, but now I know it is possible for grief and joy to coexist. 

Some pictures of the UHMBT Fundraiser of the Year Award, such a joyous validation of all OUR hard work - huge thanks to everyone who has supported Tigerlily Trust and helped us to attain this award. My parents accepted it on our behalf on the evening and then presented it to me, and some beautiful congratulatory flowers given to me by one of our brave parents a few days later. This award represents HOPE... hope for the future of Tigerlily Trust, hope for all parents who are hurting, and hope for mending our broken hearts H.O.P.E. = Hold. On. Pain. Ends.
Love and light, Val x x x