by Louise Dillon Bennett | Feb 4, 2023 | Completed Events
We’re back for 2023 with a bigger and better team for the Wolf Run. Last year over 50 runners raised an incredible £3,743. This year, the Warwickshire Junior Wolf Run takes place on 23rd April, the day after Fred’s 17th birthday. It’s 3k of mud,...
by Louise Dillon Bennett | Oct 19, 2022 | Completed Events
We want your sweets! Get ready for Halloween Fred’s favourite time of year was Halloween. He loved getting dressed up for Trick Or Treating, carving his own pumpkins and inviting friends round to eat hot dogs that looked like severed fingers. Even when having...
by Louise Dillon Bennett | Sep 6, 2022 | Childhood Cancer
We were the kind of family that fast forwarded through the sad stories. In 2019, we watched Celebrity Hunted on Channel4 for Stand Up To Cancer, and would reach for the remote as soon as the ad break started “Who watches these?” we would all shout, and text a...
by Louise Dillon Bennett | Sep 6, 2022 | Childhood Cancer
A friend got in touch recently. She had a friend whose child had been diagnosed with cancer, and was hospital. She desperately wanted to help, genuinely help. She asked me what she should do, what had I found helpful when I was in that position. I...
by Louise Dillon Bennett | Sep 6, 2022 | Childhood Cancer
It has been one year and two months since Fred died, and it is my second #NationalBereavedParentsDay. That seems an extraordinary thing to write, but there it is. In that time, I have relied on the strength and grace of those that were bereaved...
