Featherfoot End of Life Support

Are you part of the LGBTQIA+ communities in Birmimgham? Do you have a story about you experience of approaching the end of your life? Would you like the opportunity to tell your story via film with the help from an experienced film maker?

I will be supporting this Project which starts in February. It is led by the University of Warwick and Compassionate Communities UK - If you are interested please read the attached and get in touch. You can also ask me any questions via DM.

Interesting full time 6 month contract to develop the Compassionate City initiative in Birmingham - (offered as secondment for existing BCC employees)
DEADLINE is tomorrow 23rd! - only just found out about it.

Programme Officer (Compassionate Cities) in 10 Woodcock Street (Home Working) - 118381 | WM Jobs 6 month Fixed Term Contract. For existing employees this opportunity is being offered as a secondment, subject to eligibility criteria.An exciting…

This is really interesting. Relates to our innate human desire to make assumptions and try to solve problems using logic - unhelpful when dementia is just not logical. Breathe, listen and observe. 🧠💫

People with dementia may not benefit from a clutter-free environment A clutter-free environment may not help people with dementia carry out daily tasks - according to a new study from the University of East Anglia.

Aging is inevitable, so why not do it joyfully? Here’s how Here are 8 ways to approach growing older — and life — with wonder, curiosity and delight, from author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee.

So often people have to go back in the closet, or have to repeatedly 'come out' as they have to enter institutions and share spaces where homophobia can e experienced from other patients... 😪

LGBTQ+ Representation on Gravestones LGBTQ+ Representation on Gravestones: How do these graves to tell you about their identity? And, why is this so important?

Radio 4 Moral Maze on now... The Morality of Mortality... really interesting stuff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p1hb

Many people are unaware of the choices and are shamed/conned in to spending far more than they need to on funerals...

Tonight - Funerals: The True Cost? Series 22 - Episode 32 - Are we paying too much for funerals? Sonali Shah investigates.

The essence of a doula... we are not there to fix but to hold...

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen

Henri Lebasque

Cocktails with heart throb Greg Wise, holiday in Morocco, and many other fabulous lots. An online auction for a most deserving cause - to help provide doula services to a wider community. Please dig deep 💷💳💰🙏🏻

End of Life Doula UK working to change the face of death and dying in our communities We are a not for profit, membership association and a community of practice of End of Life Doulas.  An End of Life Doula is there to support a person, and those that they love, with a terminal diagnosis. We work in the person’s home as well as Hospices, Hospitals and Care Homes.  We are ...

A reminder free support by telephone is available in relation to any issues around end of life, dying, death and bereavement from End of Life Doula UK -

Just to remind people we remain available to provide Volunteer non-medical Doula support to any person who would like to reach out to us by telephone. Please do share too and here is the link to make contact https://eol-doula.uk/contact-us/ There will be no costs associated with making this call and having a conversation with a Doula. We can offer support to anyone who is:

terminally ill

concerned of how to care and support another person who may or may not be in physical isolation and is frail,

elderly,living with dementia or terminally ill

caring for a dying person at home

seeking support to complete their Advance Decision/Living Will

experiencing death anxiety

experiencing anticipatory grief and bereavement

fearing they may become seriously ill

struggling with social distancing and loneliness

Please contact us https://eol-doula.uk/contact-us/ in the first instance and we will arrange for you to be connected to a Volunteer Doula for a free conversation