Families get to grin and Bear it

Edward Bear at St Oswald’s

EDWARD Bear is continuing to meet Thursday mornings in the church centre from 9.30 to 11.30am.

With coffee, bacon rolls, toast and jam, a real welcome greets our families.

November meetings have focused initially on “Remembering”, leading into December, Advent and “Getting Ready” (baby John’s story).

Edward Bear covered a teddy bear wreath with poppies for the Remembrance parade and one of our families walked in the procession to the Memorial Gates to lay our wreath.

Edward Bear has been supporting the Moses Charity, which aims to fill as many Moses baskets with essential items for newborn babies and their nursing mothers.

Items are then collected locally by Derbyshire Refugee Solidarity in St Anne’s Church Warehouse in Derby and distributed to refugees in Syria and the holding camps in northern France.

Edward Bear, together with members of the Mothers’ Union and congregation at St Oswald’s Church, have been gathering items and filling baskets. Their generosity has been overwhelming.

There has been so much kindness, love and support shown in recognition of the difficult times young mothers are having as they bring a new baby into the world amid the turmoil of war.

It became necessary for Peter to take the donations into St Anne’s Church as we were brimming over with nappies, Babygrows, nighties for mums and more, filling the Edward Bear cupboard to bursting.

Edward Bear is still accepting donations up until Christmas.