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A note from our chairperson, Miranda, who who worked alongside Karen to get the idea up and running... Karen told me about her idea for a charity during one of our counselling sessions. She had mentioned that the NHS were cutting her service, and it had come up in my...

Karen and Miranda started out by having a meeting with an advisor at Cambridge Council for Voluntary Services.  The advisor helped them to work out which constitution to use for the charity, and advised them on a lot of the legalities that they had not yet...

In our first post our CEO, Karen Burgess, explains a bit about how the idea of setting up Petals as a charity came about. 'My role as Women's Services Counsellor at The Rosie Maternity Hospital was extremely challenging on many levels. I had set up a counselling...