30th August 2025
Lilas Light Funday all the way in Australia, Queens Land. My friend who lives there.. ‘Emily'. Well we speak every day. We Spend a lot of the time talking about our grief and loss and how to heal. She decided to hold a fun day in honour of Lilas Light…She put her heart and soul into this day and raised £2245… Beautiful person!
23rd August 2025
The Windsor Castle held a Jungle Book night in there pub, a lovely friend of mine Joanne who runs the pub, raised £125 towards Lilas Light. Thank you so much!
Also a big thanks to Natalie Chorlton who raised £330 taking on mount Snowdon with her two Children. Seth (12) and Rory (9).. Amazing work guys.
In loving memory of Joel Sheldon
Joel passed away recently. It was on the day we held Lilas Annual fun day and in that moment in time I heard the news I felt Joels Mums pain. Its the unimaginable, the gut retching and heart stopping pain loosing a child. I went to See Joels family and they kindly asked for donations for Lilas Light on there sons funeral. The Greyhound pub then held a fun day which was where Joel went out, to raise money for a bleed kit. After raising money for the bleed kit Joels family requested the remaining money go to Lilas Light. In honour of Joel we have now introduced Grief books and Journals for teenagers to offer a small amount of support to the older siblings.
RIP Joel.. another life gone to soon xxx
20th August 2025. 3rd Bag drop off at North Manchester Hospital, and we met the maternity bereavement team. Lots of bags, journals and books dropped off!
Big thank you to all are knitters that make me these little worry dolls for our under 9s and the knitted love hearts that can be placed with there loved ones. Gill, Debbie, Zoe, Amanda, Dawn, Carole, Hilary, Linda and Nicola..Special people.
4th August 2025
The Specialist Palliative Care team at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Received Lilas Light bags.
Ben Nevis 26th July 2025
Ben Nevis completed..1352 metres elevation. Raising a total of £693. Small group this time, and very foggy….But another Mountain completed by Lilas Light.
A little bit of Lilas Light at The royal Preston Hospital.. They were pleased with there special delivery.
21st June 2025
Lilas Light annual fun day
What a day, so much community support. The football guys, Mike our referee, S.C.L.F.C.U13s Squad, The NatWest ladies, the Queens pub, everyone who worked on the day, Andy for doing a football card, the stall makers, the boogie booth, People who collected and donated to the raffle and auction. I can not thank enough, and everyone who attended. We raised £3900.79..Amazing!
18th May 2025 We had a few runners running for Lilas Light.. the Manchester 10K..Well done guys!
5th April 2025
The 3 Yorkshire peaks. What a slog.. This really was horrific. 26Miles we covered. It took us just under 13hours. This weather was against us with 60mile winds. It was mentally and physically challenging. There were times when we wanted to quit, but we kept on going, blistered feet, painful knees, hips, feet, people falling, throwing up, lots of tears, delirium, swollen fingers. It was really tough. But once again Lila boo has brought an amazing group of people together and got them to push themselves to the most they've ever had to do. I’m so proud of you all! Raising £2082..AMAZING!
1st April 2025
Big bag drop off meeting the lovely Bereavement Nurse Judith. Another batch of bags done and dusted. Covering The Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wrightington, Wigan, Leigh and the Thomas Linacre Centre.
19/03/2025
Bag drop off at the Royal Bolton Hospital to meet the lovely bereavement team who were so pleased with there bags in there lovely butterfly suite, they liked the idea of giving a child a bag with the different items in. They had some really good bereavement items already but were pleased to add to them.
05/03/2025
Bag drop off at the Royal Oldham Hospital. I met up with Charlotte from The Royal Oldham hospital bereavement team. They cover Oldham, Salford Royal, Fairfield and Rochdale. Charlotte was really pleased with the bags and said they would definitely make use of these.
7/03/2025
Were really pleased to announce we are Bibliothecas charity of the year. Exciting times to come.
11/03/2025
I recently sent some bereavement bags to the Royal Blackburn bereavement team, they were much appreciated and Rachel the bereavement Practitioner said they were privileged to have received these precious bags.
Santas Grotto
Well we hope you all had a nice Christmas, Lila’s Light was busy all through December with our Santa’s grotto at The Garden House in Marple. The Garden house kindly let us host it on their grounds. It is a lovely place and runs solely on donations, their are many animals to view, a park and a café and also free parking. We once again had lots of support from friends offering to be Santa and elves and they all enjoyed themselves. We gave out over 300 presents and lots of letters were written to Santa. We raised £784.27. We have lost of bags ready to get distributing over the next few months.
Lilas Bereavement bags
Today we spent the day organizing our bereavement bags, a lot of love and care went into these bags, and include lots of lovely items to help siblings at their time of need. We have put together two types of bags, one bag for under nine years of age and then we have an over age nine bag. The under age nine includes handmade knitted dolls made with love and some little knitted love hearts. The bags contain two hearts- one can be given to the sibling that has passed away and the other for the sibling to keep. We have also included stones to paint to remember their loved ones, drawing and crafting items, a notebook, forget me not seeds, a booklet explaining grief and ideas on remembering their loved ones, a story book explaining death, a pocket hug and a few other little surprises. The over nine years of age bags contain similar items however the booklet is more appropriate to their age on explaining grief. It also contains a journal and an angel ornament to remember their loved one.
Finally we have finished our first 140bags ready to distribute.
