Keane age 5 raises funds for charity

Hello I am Keane this is my page on the blog.

I have spent my own pocket money to buy items and I have made them into little goody bags,I call my goody bags "Keane's Komfort Kreations." This is my own idea and my own money I have used, the only help I had was Nan made me the toppers to go onto my goody bags.Everything else is done by me,I have just posted off my first order by mail today and that was for 12 bags though I have sold a few more at the shop. 

As I am just 5 years old I am not allowed on here all of the time because Mum says I can't as I have to have time to play as well,I have been playing pool today with my brother Reece. He lets me win just sometimes.

I have raised funds for Angel Children since I was 3 years old just by selling my old toys and walking the the jingle bell walk and saving pennies in a smartie tube,but I wanted to do more so my goody bags are helping me do that. I sell my goody bags for just £1.00 each but you must pay the postage yourself as I can't afford that.

This is me at the angel children shop selling my goody bags

I will keep you up to date of what I am doing,but if I can't my Mum or Nan will let you all know what I am doing with my fundraising. 

If you have any questions I have my own page on the Angel Children website,I am allowed on there if anyone wants to ask me anything about my goody bags.

Oh and I wanted all the words to start with the letter K that's why I called them Keane's Komfort Kreations 

Keane's Komfort Kreation Goody Bag

 Each goody bag has 5 things in it.
1 colouring book,1 pack of colouring pencils,1 little toy and 2 kinds of sweets.All are just fun size things. The picture is over there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

If you want to buy any of my goody bags go to the Angel Children Website they can be bought on there in packs of 12.

If you want to buy less than 12 please message my Nan on facebook or leave your comments on here,and you could always support me on here by the support button.

My Nan has helped me write this,as I didn't really know what to put but I have typed it all in myself Nan just helped me with what to say.

Please could you all share this with your friends as then maybe more people will want to buy my goody bags and help me to raise funds. Thank you all for supporting me from Keane.

Update: 13/11/12 I have sold 78  goody bags can you help me reach 100?

BBC Radio Nottingham chats to Angel Children Grief Share Support Founder

BBC Radio Nottingham have invited me to their live breakfast show Sunday morning at 8am to talk about the work we do at Angel Children,so please tune in to hear about our Angel of love event.


A big thank you to Sarah Julian,BBC Radio Nottingham for the interview this morning regarding our work at Angel Children.Not forgetting Marcus Alton who was the first to get in touch with me and for his telephone interview and nice chat.

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Hello my fellow Angel Mum's/Dad's

My Angel Son Ryan had his 22nd birthday in Heaven on 14th July, I have published (Ebook)some of my heartfelt poetry with Lulu, In Ryan's Memory. 

15% of revenue will help me raise funds for headstones for Angel Children..

Please click on the link and read my work (Tissues over there>>>>>) From one bereaved parent to hopefully many others.

Write from the Heart

If you decide to download a copy please let me know what you think and leave me a review.

Thank you in advance xx

Help get a headstone for Owen

Today would be the 4th birthday of Owen Riley Gibson

We are still fundraising to get this little angel the headstone he deserves
Please click on our support button to help us to get Owen's headstone as a mark of respect today on his 4th Birthday PLEASE HELP

Happy Birthday In Heaven Owen

Please help us to get Owen the headstone he deserves


  

Update on the fundraising for Owen's heastone.    

Angel Children have raised  £210.00 towards Owen's headstone but due to circumstances beyond our control we are no longer fundraising for this cause.......The money we have raised will now be used for gravel,a fence and other bits and pieces for Owen's graveside,if any money is left over Angel Children will use this to buy Owen's sister's Liberty and Ebony some Christmas presents.Angel Children have permission from Owen's grandparents and Aunty for the money to be used this way.

Thank you to the residents of Kirkby in Ashfield for your help in this cause as these are the only people to have helped

Angel Children in the News

Thanks to Catherine Allen reporter of our local newspaper The Ashfield/Mansfield Chad for reporting of the work we do at Angel Children Grief Share Support.

Recognition of Life Certificate

I have designed this recognition of life certificate to raise funds for angel children grief share, they are available to all bereaved parents at a cost of £3.00 the certificate will be sent to you via email, high resolution digital jpeg copy so please add me on Facebook and send me your email details along with the wording you would like added, this link is for our supporters page on facebook. 


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Angel-Childrens-Supporters-Page/443518782361231

Recognition of Life Certificate

All recognition of life certificates are delivered to you as shown customised only with your child's details

Payment will go direct to Angel Children by using the support button found at the top of our blog.

Thank you for your support 

Free Comfort Boxes for Bereaved Parents

Angel Children are giving away FREE comfort boxes to bereaved parents.

I personally know the heartbreak that comes when a parent loses a child,it is heartbreaking,devastating,the worst thing in the world and it feels like someone has ripped out your heart,stamped all over it and you will never ever be the same again.

Some of your friends and even family stop talking to you,cross the road rather than stop and speak to you,so you not only lose your child but you can lose family,friends, and really, you lose life the way you knew it.

The Angel Children team would like to change that,well maybe not change,but bring a little comfort or a smile or two in the face of the grief you are suffering. We will choose two bereaved parents each month from all nominations entered which can be male or female as the bereaved dads out there need a little comfort too.

We are now taking nominations from the public, so if you know of a bereaved parent get your nomination in.

Start date for nominations : August 16th 2012 

End Date for nominations : September 16th 2012

All you need to do is nominate a bereaved Mum or Dad that you think deserves a little comfort,tell us a little of why you think your nominee should be given a comfort box above other nominees.The rules are simple your nominee must be resident in the UK as at this moment in time Angel Children only support bereaved families in the UK.There is no age limit on this so your nominee could be grieving loss through miscarriage, still birth,toddler,young child/teenager or young adult. PLEASE NOTE: You can not nominate yourself.

We understand all bereaved parents deserve a little comfort and would love to give to them all,but we can't,but just to bring comfort to even some would all be worth it. As we already provide most parents with a mini headstone or memorial plaque to mark the child's resting place we thought it would be nice just to offer a lovely comfort box as a way of showing we care.

Who do you think deserves this Free comfort box?

 Comfort Box Contents:

1 x pack of forget me not seeds
1 x Angel Magnet
1 x Bag of Love (Includes poem)
1 x Cherub on feather
1 x Angel key ring
1 x Angel mobile phone charm
1 x Guardian Angel Hanging Decoration
1 x Comfort Tissue

PLEASE NOTE: This is not available to Anonymous users


Please add your nominees in the comments section below I will need a valid email address to enable me to contact winning nominees,I ask you not to leave email addresses on the blog but to contact me through our facebook page Our Children in Heaven UK.

Should these boxes become popular we may increase the giveaway from monthly to fortnightly depending on our funds at the time.

Angel Children are a non profit organisation, support to ourselves is always appreciated and welcome.


Follow this blog ........FREE comfort boxes for siblings coming soon

Don't forget to share this blog with other bereaved families so all get a chance to enter

Can I please just ask you all to add which site your from Facebook,Twitter,Angel Children Etc so I will know where to contact the winners. Thank you. Please feel free to add me on Facebook it may make this a little easier for me to know where each person is from.

 Could I please ask everyone to share this blog the more people see the blog the more people we can help 

Angel Children boost funds with easyfundraising

As the recession continues to bite, many charities are finding it harder than ever to raise much needed funds.

But supporters of Angel Children can now boost their favourite cause simply by shopping online

Angel Children Grief Share Support Group has joined thousands of good causes raising money through easyfundraising - an online gateway to over 2000 well known retailers.

When supporters shop using the links on the easyfundraising site, Angel Children Grief Share Support Group receive a free donation of up to 15% of the purchase price.

With British shoppers set to spend a staggering £39 billion online this year alone, Marilyn Foden  from Angel Children Grief Share Support Group is keen for as many people as possible to sign up:

“Things are tough at the moment and we understand that, so we’re having to look at more creative ways to raise vital funds for Angel Children Grief Share Support Group.

“More people than ever are shopping online because they know they can pick up a bargain. With easyfundraising our supporters get to shop around for the best deals AND raise money for us at the same time.

Featuring high street names such as M&S, Argos and Tesco, easyfundraising has already helped UK charities raise over £3 million.

And as well as raising funds, the free to use website also gives shoppers access to hundreds of offers, discounts, vouchers and free delivery codes that they won’t find elsewhere.

To support Angel Children Grief Share Support Group, visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/angelchildren and follow the instructions.

If you are a registered charity,non profit organisation or good cause and would like to sign up with easyfundraising, visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/referral/31744

Angel Children Team up with Recycle for Charity

Recycle for Charity  has entered into a new partnership with Angel Children to recycle inkjet cartridges,toner cartridges and mobile phones to help raise funds for the charity.

Angel Children's supporters can send their empty inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and mobile phones to the recycling company and Angel Children will receive a donation for each one that can be successfully recycled.

There is no cost to Angel Children for Recycle for Charity to operate the scheme; all recycling materials such as freepost envelopes and collection boxes are supplied completely free of charge

Recycle for Angel Children

Reasons to support us

Angel Children help and support many families in the uk by providing one of our mini headstones to parents who have lost a child,the mini headstone is a temporary measure and is placed at the child's forever bed,until a forever headstone can be erected.

We also support with the funding of a child's forever headstone. We need help to enable us to keep supporting these families.We are a non profit organisation which means we get no government funding, so totally rely on the public's generosity and support.

Here are two of the reasons we need your support. 

Kade Jordan Paul Pilmore
26.02.11-18.03.11

We are supporting Kade's family with the funding of this beautiful little Angel's forever headstone.

Would you support us in this?


 Please dig deep enter an amount and click on our support button.

Owen Riley Gibson
26.08.08 - 13.04.12

Angel Children are no longer raising funds for owen's headstone see other post about Owen's birthsday as to what is now being done with the money we have raised. Thank you

                      Thank you in advance for supporting 
                              Angel Children Grief Share 

Some pictures of the Mini Headstones

Here are a few pictures of the mini headstones and plaques we at Angel Children have specially made and give to bereaved families after the loss of a child here in the UK

Given to the parents of 3 year old Owen Riley Gibson

Given to the parents of baby Kade Jordan Paul Philmore

This mini headstone has a flat base featuring an upright teddy bear and solar light,it was painted with Owen's favourite colour red.

Owen passed away age just 3 years in April of this year.

We are doing various fundraising events to raise funds for Owen's forever headstone.

Anyone wishing to support us with Owen's forever stone can do so by using our support Angel Children button.

Angel Children are no longer raising funds for this cause. See Help get headstone for Owen post for details on what is now being done with the money raised.Thank you








This is a memorial plaque featuring a teddy bear and two stars.Painted in cream and gold.

Kade was just 23 days old when he gained his angel wings  in March 2011

We are doing various fundraising events to raise funds for Kade's forever headstone.

Anyone wishing to support Kade's forever headstone can do so with our support Angel Children button.

Given to the parents of Abbie Sterling

This mini headstone features a sleeping baby in wings,with solar light and flowers

Abbie was 11 months old when she fell asleep in August 2011

Anyone wishing to support us with Abbie's forever headstone can do so using our support Angel Children button.

Given to the parents of James Holloway

 This mini headstone features an upright teddy bear
and flowers.

James Holloway was born sleeping in December  2004

Anyone wishing to support us with James's forever headstone can do so using our support Angel Children button.

Given to the parents of Morgan Eric Liddell

This Mini headstone features a sleeping baby in wings,and flowers.

Baby Morgan was born sleeping in June 2011

We are currently not fundraising at this moment in time for Morgan's forever headstone.

But please remember all support helps us to carry on the work we do at Angel Children.

Given to the parents of Samantha and Anthony Mills

This mini headstone features a sleeping baby in wings,flowers and butterfly.

Samantha was born sleeping in June 1995

The little cross her Mum had placed at the graveside had saw better days,so Angel Children supplied this mini headstone to Samantha's mummy.

We also supplied an Identical mini headstone to the same family when Samantha's brother Anthony was born sleeping in November 1995. This family had so much heartache Angel Children had to help.


I hope this gave you a little insight into the work Angel Children carry out, we would like to help more families by giving a free mini headstone to each one but sadly we can not afford to help everyone,as our funds do not permit us to help every bereaved parent that comes to us.

What people are doing to raise funds

Grieving Mum Lisa Gregory 

stays silent to raise funds for Angel Children

Lisa Gregory was locked in a room for 6 hours at the Coxmoor Community Centre Kirkby in Ashfield Notts on 24th June 2012.

No Mobile phone,No Internet,No Ciggies,No Talking, anyone who knows Lisa will know this would be a very hard task for her .....But Grieving Mum Lisa completed her task to raise funds for us.

Well done Lisa £141.00 raised

Lisa is grieving the loss of her own little boy Kade Jordan Paul Pilmore who gained his Angel wings on 18.03.11 aged just 23 days.

Angel children have presented Lisa with a memorial plaque of her choice to lay at Kade's forever bed until funds are raised to purchase a forever headstone for this beautiful little Angel.

Fundraising is now underway to help with this...All donations greatly recieved.

Anyone who wishes to make a donation towards Angel Baby Kade's forever Headstone can do so by clicking on our support Angel Children Button putting in the amount of your donation and click send. Offline you call into our Shop Angel Children on 103 Lowmoor Road Kirkby in Ashfield Notts



William Heaps

had his hair shaved off at Hair-Emporium on Lowmoor Road Kirkby in Ashfield in July
to raise funds for us at Angel Children.

A total of

£161.00

was raised through William's friends and family

A big Thank you goes to Will and everyone who sponsored him

A big Thank you goes to Hair - Emporium for shaving Will's hair free of charge and let me say you did a great job as he had plenty of it to shave off

Anyone wishing to support Angel Children can do so by clicking on our support Angel Children support button enter the amount you wish then click send.Thank you in advance.

Thank you for donations made

Angel Children would like to thank the Kirkby in Ashfield Rotary Club for their donation of £100.00 this will go towards the purchase of another two mini headstones for bereaved families who have lost a child.

Angel Of Love

Have you lost a child,or precious loved one?

You are invited to remember your loved by making an Angel out of bio-degradable material only,and post it to us at Angel Children Grief Share Support 103,Lowmoor Road Kirkby in Ashfield Notts NG17 7BH UK. We are asking everyone possible to do this and to pay a donation fee of £1.00,this fee will also help us to keep doing the work we do at Angel Children for bereaved families. We are going to have a big tree made out of all the Angels that are sent to us,and place it in the grounds of a local nursing home,where everyone can have the pleasure of seeing the tree. Hopefully the tree will be ready to go on display in December of this year. Please join in this event with us,this is a great way of honoring the memory of your precious loved one,we hope to get as many people involved including as many schools a we can,all of us at some point in our lives know someone who now lives in heaven please honor their memory and make your Angel of Love. 

The £1.00 fee can be paid by clicking our support Angel Children button just click button and enter the amount.

Thank you in advance for taking part in our event we hope to make this an annual event if we get enough people involved. Please remember to add to our comments box and let us know if you are going to be joining us in our event. Also please share this blog so everyone you know can join this event if they wish.

We ask you to start making your Angel  from 1st September onwards and post them to us before November 14th this gives us time to have the tree made and displayed in December.

These Biodegradable Angels were handed into our shop by our customers that are entering our Angel of Love Event

These two were made for Quality Street Chocolate Wrappers

These two Angels were made from
biodegradable shopping bags


I will add more as and when we receive Angels made by you the public


Please could I ask you all to share this blog the more people see it the better 

Add your Angel's Birthday

Add your Angel's birthday here and we can wish them a happy birthday in heaven xx

William Charles Gibson Happy Birthday In Heaven xx

Happy Birthday In Heaven

William Charles Gibson

Sleeping with the Angels xx

Our Angels in Heaven

Ryan James Foden lost his life to brain cancer on 17th January 2009, he was 18 years old.

Ryan's wish was to help other people,he was training to become a carer here is Ryan's story

Ryan was born on 14th July 1990. At the age of 2 years Ryan was diagnosed with Autism but he coped well with this.He got on with life as best as he could although there were some things that Ryan could not do but this never bothered him at all.

He went on to attend a special school making lots of friends along the way.He never complained about anything, he was always smiling and wanted to help others like himself when he got older. That was Ryan's wish.

Ryan can no longer fulfill his own wish,so I as his mum have to make his wish come true for him,in his memory.
I am trying my best to fulfill Ryan's wish and have set up an Angel Children Grief Share Support Group in the Ashfield area of Nottinghamshire in memory of Ryan.This is a support group run by bereaved parents and siblings for bereaved parents,siblings their relatives and friends. Anyone wishing to join our group is more than welcome.

Ryan went on to attended college in Tynemouth where he befriended lots of disabled young adults, although by now Ryan was wheelchair bound himself, he still helped those who needed it more than him at that time.In 2008 sadly Ryan was diagnosed with a genetic terminal Brain disease called vanishing white matter. He became used to his wheelchair and also got used to the fact that he was losing the use of his limbs,speech and everything else that this disease affected.

Ryan was loved by everyone who came into contact with him and loved everyone in return. He loved classic cars and Newcastle United Football Team and met quite a few of the players.He loved a wide range of music he especially loved queen. But most of all Ryan had a wish to help others.

Sadly Ryan was rushed into hospital in late December 2008 where he was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor,collapsed lung and pneumonia. We all made him as comfortable as we could but sadly Ryan fell asleep and gained his Angel wings on 17th January 2009.

Ryan's wish was to help other people
Ryan's legacy is Angel Children, providing free mini headstones to parents after child loss.

Ryan James Foden 14.07.90 - 17.01.09

 

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