Mosaic MattersWinter 2018 | Issue 32Registered Charity 1158138

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Christmas Party 2017

Residential Weekend P3

Kim’s First Camp P7

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Welcome to the Winter 2018 Mosaic newsletterWe don’t usually send out a Winter newsletter, but this year we really wanted to express our appreciation to our supporters following a great festive season before memories of 2017 fade.

Our residential weekend was in November with 15 brilliant children and young people making great friends and supporting each other over an emotional and fun-packed weekend.

We held a Christmas party at the start of December with around 40 children and their families coming to meet friends and receive gifts from Father Christmas. The party was funded by 4Com who provided an entertainer and a photo booth which was great fun. Our children were also very lucky to receive presents from Wave 105 Mission Christmas and Sunninghill School in Dorchester.

Our first Christmas Concert was held with the male voice choir, Bourne2Sing in Ashley Cross where we had many mince pies donated by M&S and Iceland and a beautiful evening in St Peter’s church, so I hope you enjoy all our winter news.

Sarah Administrator

New website for 2018 Keep your eyes out in the coming weeks for a fresh new Mosaic website for 2018.

Our friends and supporters at Coleman Insurance Brokers have donated their time and expertise in developing a great new website which should be simple and effective in showing children, parents and professionals how Mosaic can offer support to families in Dorset.

New date for Mosaic Conference 2018Please note our conference date for 2018 has moved. Unfortunately we had to cancel the February date, the new date is Tuesday 6th November 2018.

We will be hosting another full day of speakers and workshops with the focus on supporting children and young people through bereavement.

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Residential Weekend November 2017With 15 children and young people and 8 parents, we had another great camp weekend at Leeson House in the Purbecks. See page 7 for a story from our volunteer Kim.

What have we been up to?

Family Christmas Party 2017Mosaic held our Family Christmas party in December – with around 40 children, which was funded and jointly planned with ourselves and 4Com, a Dorset based communications company, who provided an entertainer and a photo booth which was a great success with the families and funny props.

Father Christmas also made an appearance and distributed gifts donated by 4Com, Wave 105 Mission Christmas and Sunninghill School in Dorchester.

Say chhheeesssseeee!Left, right, le ft, rig

ht!

Meeting Santa Cla us

Big hugs a ll rou nd

Crazy fa ncy dress!

Everyone gather a rou nd…

“I was able to talk to people about my mum with people

who understood me” 14 year old girl at

residential weekend

Mosaic Photo Gallery

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Horse Show 2017 presentation for £2,673.00.

Bere Regis & District Swimming Club made a great donation of £808 following an event

Masonic Charitable Foundation cheque presentation for £15,000

The Mosaic Swimathon raised £668 in 2017, thank you to all the brilliant swimmers at the Littledown Leisure Centre putting in the lengths for a great cause.

Thank you to our volunteers Sandra and Carla who sold sweets at the Dorchester Christmas Cracker in December and one of our young ambassadors Evien.

The Classic Car Show presentation for £2,750 with Symonds and Sampson at Sherborne Castle on 17th November.

Thankyou !

• Douch Family Funeral Directors £400

• Waitrose Poundbury £140

• Farnfields Solicitors £255

• Lush £279

• Anglo Continental £310

• Aphrodite Beauty Salon £412

• Symonds & Sampson £3,690

• East Dorset Riding School £2,673

• Warmwell Fete £750

• Sherborne Classic Car Show £2,750

• Bere Regis Swimming Club £818

• Blandford Rotary £350

• AFC Bournemouth £1,000

• Exxon Mobile Southampton £250

• JP Morgan £100

• Spetisbury Church Group £250

• Verwood Card Making Group £100

• Mr Spicer £1,170

• St Mary’s Church School, Charminster £540

• St George’s Church Langton Matravers £500

• Puddleducks Swimming Dorset £972

• Williams Lester Architects £167

• Bournemouth Stonewater Housing Office £225

• Karen Tennyson £300

• Ian Bywater £300

• Mrs Watts £275

• Finning UK Walk £469

• Quay Holidays-Living £425

• Salsa Amigos £320

• Stratton Strollers £400

• Damers First School £343

• St Peters Church Langton Herring £250

Thank you to our fundraisers who raised the following amounts through their challenges via Just Giving:

• Jane Law – Baxter’s Loch Ness Marathon £754

• Paula Moore – Bournemouth Half Marathon, Sky Dive and Great South Run £750

• Alex Meade – 3 Peaks Challenge £290

• Holly Hughes-Williams and Fern MacDonald – South Coast Challenge £413

• Carly Oliver – 5k Mud Run Challenge, Bovington £385

• Evien Fernandes– 12 hour walk/run at Physiques & Shapes Gym, Dorchester £1,012

Thank you for all donations made big and small, each penny and pound count to us.

A big ‘Thank You’ to… “There’s no time limit to get better. Take as much time as you need. You must talk about stuff because it doesn’t help not to”.

Advice from a young person at camp

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Christmas Concert with Bourne2SingIn mid-December we held a Christmas concert at St Peter’s Church in Parkstone with Bourne2Sing a local male voice choir with the support of Marks and Spencer’s at Castle Point raising £500.

Thank you to everyone who came along, to M&S and Iceland for donating mince pies and to Bourne2Sing for singing and training staff from M&S to make a special guest appearance.

Sunninghill Prep teams up with Mosaic this ChristmasSunninghill Prep School in Dorchester parents, pupils and staff provided beautifully wrapped gifts for children and young people who are being supported by Mosaic.

John Thorpe, Headmaster at Sunninghill Prep said

“The team at Mosaic are doing really important work and we felt that by supporting this wonderful charity, the Sunninghill pupils are thinking about other children and young people, especially at Christmas time. It doesn’t matter what your background is, where you grew up, or even which school you go to, sadly you never know when you might need the love and support of a charity like Mosaic.”

Fundraising News

Christmas Tree Festival The Church in the Purbeck village of Langton Matravers held a beautiful Christmas Tree festival raising £500.

Bags of HelpMosaic were awarded £4,000 from Tesco (Blandford store) Bags of Help scheme and also raised funds for our Crazy Sock day in October. This added to the good news from the Coop Local Community Fund so great news all round from the supermarkets of Dorset.

Fa ntastic supporters!

Wrapped gifts ga lore

Singing loud a nd proud!

Thankyou !

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Christmas Card Competition A number of schools took part in our 2017 Christmas Card Competition following Crazy Sock day to design a Christmas stocking card. We had two lucky winners from Queens Park Academy in Bournemouth who had their cards go into print and we have been selling them during our festive fundraising activities.

Crazy Sock Day 2017Our annual fundraiser ‘Crazy Sock Day’ in October 2017 with the help of lots of schools and businesses we raised £2,479!

Date for your diary: Crazy Sock Day 2018 is Friday 5th October

Evien our new Mosaic Young Ambassador Evien’s dad died from a cardiac arrest at home.

After support from Mosaic and CAMHS, he decided to fundraise by taking part in a 12 hour walk/run at his local gym raising over £1,000.

Evien was presented with his Young Ambassador badge and certificate at our Residential weekend which he attended

with his brother Orren.

We were very happy to spend the weekend with Evien and his brother Orren at camp in November and present him with a Young Ambassador certificate.

Colou rfu l socks everywhere!

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Kim’s First CampOne of our regular volunteers Kim, helped at her first residential weekend in November 2017. “I have been volunteering for Mosaic for 2 years, mostly in the office doing all sorts of jobs ranging from sorting out files, updating computer records and helping with preparation for their Camp Weekends.

I did my first camp volunteer weekend in November 2017 and it was an amazing experience. Firstly I have to say I was totally worn out by all the youngsters energy, it was scary! I helped with the arts/crafts activities which involved organising the work area as well as providing hands on help for painting memory stones.

The stories these young people have and the open way they shared them with me is the one part of the weekend I will carry with me for a long long time. The idea behind the weekends is that these children can get together with others that have had a loved one die. They get to share good memories with each other. They get to quietly remember their loved ones during the candle ceremony. This touched me deeply and I feel very privileged to have shared this weekend with such a fantastic bunch of individuals big and small.

What’s it like being a volunteer – priceless to me. It brings me great joy to see so many young people being helped by Mosaic. They say the proof is in the pudding and volunteering gives me that precious insight.”

Kim Administrator

Volunteering with Mosaic

An amazing experience

“Never bottle anything up, it’s

better to tell someone how you feel and don’t blame yourself. Keep smiling and it’s ok to cry sometimes, just know

there’s a lot of people who care”.Advice from a young

person at camp

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Did you know… Training

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Mosaic, 3 Barnes Croft, Coles Lane, Milborne St Andrew, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 0LG. Tel: 01258 837071. Email: info@mosaicfamilysupport.org. Registered Charity No. 1158138.

Please visit the website for more details on our 2018 training programme and contact laura@familysupport.org for bookings.

Introduction to Childhood BereavementWednesday 25th April 2018 Monday 24th September 2018

Working Creatively with Bereaved ChildrenMonday 9th October 2017Wednesday 13th June 2018

Early Years Supporting Bereaved Pre-school children Wednesday 21st March 2018

Teenagers Supporting Young Adults Monday 26th February 2018Wednesday 10th October 2018

Supporting Children Pre-bereavementMonday 6th November 2017Monday 1st October 2018

Traumatic and Complex Grief in children and Young People Monday 4th June 2018

Special Educational NeedsMonday 12th November 2018

In 2017 Mosaic helped…

213children and young people

received Mosaic support

39 children attended the resident

camp in Swanage

35 children participated in the

Activity Day in June

39children enjoyed the

Mosaic Christmas Party

28 children had a great time

sailing and paddle boarding

263 teachers and child support workers were trained in child bereavement

5We appointed five new

Youth Mosaic Ambassadors

93Billy our Mosaic elephant made

93 public appearances!

Supporting bereaved children

“I now have a greater understanding of how to

support a bereaved child ”Following our

Introduction course