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We had a lengthy meeting on Wednesday evening, where much coffee was consumed while lots of boxes on our to-do list were ticked, and a whole lot more 'to-do's were added to the bottom of the list! Karen has been busy writing a business plan, Miranda has been working...

We are very pleased to welcome Victoria Stevenson and Shazia Bhatti to the charity! Victoria has previous experience of running a charity so will be a useful advisor to us all as we work our way through the minefield that is ahead of us!  Shazia worked closely with...

August 22nd 2011 saw the first official get together of the Trustees for Petals.  Much has already happened 'behind the scenes', so it was good to get everyone together to catch up with progress. Although Petals has now been registered as a charitable company, it...

The very first donation to the Petals charity was a cheque for £200 from a lady who used to teach Karen at secondary school.  She had been unable to have children herself, and when Karen met her and told her about her idea for the charity she got out her cheque book...

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...