Our Offer
At Wiltshire Treehouse we offer support for bereaved children aged 0-18 (up to 25 with SEND).
The support we can offer depends on the age and needs of the bereaved child.
You can find more details about what we offer below, including information about how we can help professionals who work with bereaved children. If you would like to access our services you can click on the Make A Referral button at the top of this page.
Our Services
Advice & information:
We can provide advice, guidance, and resources to parents, carers and professionals supporting bereaved children aged 0-18 (up to 25 with SEND). We can do this over the phone, virtually or in person.
Family Group Programme:
Open to children aged 6-11yrs and their parents/carers, the programme is specially designed for bereaved families and delivered by our highly experienced team. We provide a programme of practical activities that give children and their parents/carers the opportunity to explore and express their thoughts and feelings together, and alongside other families.
NEST Group:
NEST has been designed to meet the needs of older children. By using creative activities NEST provides participants with the opportunity to explore thoughts, feelings and coping strategies, alongside their peers.
– Our Wiltshire NEST caters for young people in school years 6-11 (ages 10 – 16)
– Our Swindon NEST caters for young people in school years 7-13 (ages 11 – 18)
One to One Support:
This is individual help for a bereaved child or young person, where they meet with one of our team on a regular basis to help them to process and cope with their grief. We offer this to children aged 6-18 (up to 25 with SEND).
There is a charge for this service. Please see flyer for further information.
Social Opportunities:
We regularly run social opportunities for bereaved families, helping to provide a network of shared experience. Details of events can be found at Events.
Community Engagement:
It’s really important that we continue to engage with our local community to raise awareness of the needs of bereaved children, and the work we do to support them. We regularly run fundraising events that provide fun activities, whilst raising money for our charitable work.
For more information on these head to Events. Events include Easter trails, Halloween hunts, wreath making workshops, picnics and more!
Professionals
We can provide advice, guidance, resources and training to professionals working with bereaved children and young people aged 0-18 years (up to 25 with SEND).
What can we offer?
– Training for staff so they feel more confident and better resourced. Children can be resilient and the majority can process and manage their grief by themselves, with help from their family and the professionals already in their lives. For info about our training click Training.
– Resources
– Telephone Advice
– Information about our services
We operate on a self-referral basis. Families should refer themselves to us using the Make a Referral button on our home page. However, we welcome all contact from professionals and can discuss anonymous cases if this is helpful.
For all professional enquiries please email admin@wiltshiretreehouse.org.uk or contact Kath Brownlee, Service Director on 07493 509750.
