Amanda Jemmerson, 38, completed a student placement at Treetops two years ago. Since qualifying she has returned to the charity as a volunteer, counselling bereaved young people. Here’s what she’s told us about her experience.
Treetops Hospice Care is offering free bereavement counselling to care home staff left devastated by the Coronavirus pandemic.
This Saturday 8 August, friends Tim Butler and Dan Gerlach will be tackling an 80km walk in just 24 hours along the New South Wales coast.
A young care worker from Long Eaton will be taking to the skies in August to raise money for the hospice that cared for her best friend’s family.
Thanks to a booster grant from BBC Children in Need, bereaved children will be receiving individual therapeutic packs so they can return to face-to-face counselling at leading Derbyshire hospice, Treetops.
Treetops Hospice Care staff have received a donation of 500 hand-sewn face masks from voluntary group, Shelagh’s Sewing Circle, based in Dronfield. The group have donated over 32,000 face masks since starting the initiative earlier this year.
With its bespoke counselling rooms currently closed to the public, award-winning hospice Treetops has moved to online counselling to support bereaved adults and youngsters, and those diagnosed with a life-limiting condition.
A kind-hearted Derbyshire man has been cheering up friends and family during lockdown by reciting one joke every day, for 100 days – with money raised from the challenge being donated to Treetops Hospice Care, in Risley.
In national Carers Week (8-14 June), Treetops Hospice Care is highlighting the struggles that unpaid carers are facing during the Coronavirus pandemic.
A six-year-old boy has raised hundreds of pounds for the charity which helped to take care of his Nan before her death.