Within my community-based voluntary role, it became evident that many of our service users were struggling with grief but finding it difficult to access professional support. I knew that Karen has experience in this field and had helped me work through personal grief issues, she seemed the ideal person to lead our proposed ‘Loss and Bereavement’ Support group. This was a pilot group and we approached Karen to plan and deliver 12 sessions. Karen addressed several aspects of the grieving process, facilitated some very profound whole/ small group interactions and introduced several different approaches to self-care and well-being for people coping with loss. Those who attended spoke highly of the sessions, the retention rate was very good and members of the group expressed interest in the group continuing for longer. We are now seeking funding to ensure this happen, that the sessions will run on a more frequent basis and we will be only too glad to have Karen back on board. (Practice Health Champions)