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Focus Group – Death Education in Schools

12/04/2023

We are running a focus group to help us to understand some of the difficulties which might be faced by teachers running classes on death and dying. The focus group will ask simple questions relating to this, and we will invite your input via small discussion groups, each chaired by a CEDAR volunteer. Better knowledge of the problems of discussing death will help us to develop and provide resources to make lessons easier and more approachable for staff and pupils…

Companion Animal Bereavement

09/09/2022

A time to talk. Join others at this special cafe and talk about the death of a beloved pet or animal companion. After a number of requests, we wanted to give those who needed an accepting space to talk about the joy and loss of a special pet.

Thank You to MidCounties Co-operative Community Fund

13/10/2020

We are so grateful for the continued support of our MidCounties Cooperative Community Fund to help us deliver death education programmes across the County to our young people and adults on how to talk about death, dying and loss in healthy and appropriate ways. We recently received £1000, which will allow us to purchase a wonderful new teaching and learning software in order to put some of our awarding-winning death education classes online. This will help us reach more young…

Presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

28/07/2020

CEDAR Education founder Dr Judith Wester and four volunteers attended the presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service on the evening of 27th July 2020. Dr Wester and Hannah Davies were presented with the crystal award and a certificate signed by Her Majesty the Queen by the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, Anna Turner JP. Dr Wester has worked in the field of death education for many years and started CEDAR Education to normalise the conversation around death, dying, loss…

CEDAR wins prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

02/06/2020

We are thrilled to announce that we have won the coveted Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. We applied last year and met with Colonel Mark Cuthbert-Brown, Vice Lord-Lieutenant for Shropshire on a couple of occasions to answer questions, fill in forms and generally make sure that everything about our application was as it should be. We are so pleased to be one of five winners across Shropshire and will be presented with the award later this year by the county’s…

Huge Thank You to Midcounties Co-operative

17/09/2019

We would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to the Midcounties Co-operative Community Fund for the wonderful support they have given to CEDAR Education Life Lessons Programme. This funding has allowed us to develop a death education programme for one of our local Shropshire schools and assist our volunteer staff in getting additional training for our programmes. We were also able to use the funds to deliver our research on death education in secondary schools to the 14th International…

“You can’t negotiate with death, but you can negotiate the way you die”

23/04/2019

CEDAR volunteer Marion Dakin writes about the cuts in funding to the Severn Hospice. Her partner Bruce Jackson died aged 64, from long-term cancer of the oesophagus. Bruce had been on palliative care, during which time he twice chose to use the beds at Severn Hospice in Telford.However, the charity has just been told that there is a cut of £250,000 in this years funding, leading to the loss of 2 hospice beds. Marion is concerned that more people will…

The Social Value Charter

16/04/2019

We are very pleased to announce that we’ve signed up to the Social Value in Shropshire Charter. organisations who sign up to the Charter are committing to: Supporting the Shropshire economy Promoting wellbeing in Shropshire Make Shropshire a great place to live As anyone who has been to our courses can testify, we at CEDAR Education CIC do our very best to uphold these values as they are so important to enhanced quality of life. Shropshire is a beautiful county…

A new look for death education

21/09/2018

We hope you like our new look, which was created by the wonderful team at KENSA-Creative, based in Telford. They worked very hard to help us bring you the latest news, blogs, book reviews, and of course our wonderful workshops and training events in a way that will make it easier for you to access all parts of the website, register for a workshop, buy a book, and enjoy our ‘Thinking Differently’ blog posts. Sud has…