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Community groups receive £10k to support bereavement projects across Wales

Twenty projects across Wales have received grants of up to £500 to hold events or services that enable communities to support people through grief or ill-heath.   £10,000 of funding was given to the projects which reached more than 500 people…
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Race Equality First – Helpwch Ni i Wella Gofal Diwedd Oes yng Nghymru

Cefnogi Cymunedau Amrywiol Ethnig a Chrefyddol CymruBeth yw pwrpas y prosiect hwn? Rydym yn casglu profiadau pobl o gymunedau amrywiol o ran ethnigrwydd a/neugrefyddiaeth yng Nghymru sydd wedi bod yn ymwneud â gofal diwedd oes.Bydd eich mewnwelediadau yn helpu i…
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Race Equality First – Not All Go Gentle into That Good Night

Help us Improve End of life Care for Wales’s Ethnically & Religiously DiverseCommunities. What is this project about?We are gathering the experiences of people from ethnically and/or religiouslydiverse communities in Wales who have been involved in end-of-life care.Your insights will…
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Grief Disco

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 - Presented by: The Queens Hall This is a Standing EventDoors Open at 2pm Created by Georgina Jones and Leah Siân Davies, Grief Disco is part ritual, part movement, part celebration of life; it’s about giving…
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Marie Curie Cymru

Your experience matters. Help us improve end of life care in Wales. Marie Curie Cymru is gathering real experiences to understand how palliative and end of life care varies across Wales. Right now, 1 in 14 A&E visits involve someone…
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Brecon District Mind – Grief Awareness Week Events

Brecon Mind are hosting a series of events over 3 days during National Grief Awareness week this December to which you are warmly invited.  The events are for people who live or work in and around Brecon and the surrounding…
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Compassionate Penarth Write Your Own Eulogy Workshop – 22 October

Eulogy-Workshop-FlyerDownload Compassionate Penarth offers you a warm welcome to attend our free, informative, and creative workshop.A morning filled with insights, ideas, and inspiration in a safe respectful space.Leave with a toolkit guide to produce your own unique and personal eulogy.…
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Booking now open for Compassionate Communities in Wales event – 8 May 2025

Thursday 8 May 2025, 10am-4pm, in Cornerstone, Charles Street, Cardiff, CF10 2GA As part of Dying Matters week, Compassionate Cymru, facilitated by Age Cymru, will be holding an in-person event to shine a spotlight on compassionate communities in Wales in…
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Compassionate Cymru small grant fund 2025

Our small grant fund is currently open to applications. Communities in Wales can apply for up to £500 to kick start, develop or maintain activities to support communities to be compassionate in relation to death, dying and bereavement; whether this…
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In conversation about Trans and Gender Diverse Communities and experiences of end of life care

In this podcast Professor Mark Taubert, Lead for Advance and Future Care Planning in NHS Wales, talks to Olivia Warnes, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager at Hospices UK, and Ellie Kane, Consultant in Palliative Care for Marie Curie Hospice,…
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