In 2017 James and I travelled (with authorisation and ‘support’) from London to our Children’s Hospice in Chorley with Joshua’s body wrapped in frozen peas a...

Today Oliver is 6 months old! I have no idea where the time has gone, for most this is a simple monthly milestone, for us it's a sigh of relief... The past ...

Moving forward into a New Year is always difficult for us, the further time passes, the more we feel that people expect us to have ‘moved on’ from our grief....

Today Oliver is five months old, for us this is an important stage. His bother Joshua had monthly milestone photographs, like many babies, and we had added ...

Just two years after the launch of Jolly Josh’s first ever session, our families were today invited to a ‘Mystery Meet’, alongside the Mayor and Mayoress of ...

Oliver is 3 months old, I admit that I feel as though I’d been thrown in to a whirlwind since July and this is the first time that I’ve sat back to reflect ...

The idea of ‘Jolly Josh two years ago was ‘pure imagination’. A chain of events would lead me (Founder, Carole Kelly) to realise that there was a huge gap in...

Sophie, Joshua’s older sister started nursery just ten days after Joshua passed away, an extremely difficult transition for her and for me. Our attachment me...

Today Oliver is one month old yet he’s actually only 37 weeks plus 6 days gestation. He’s been home for just over two weeks and that’s due to the new ‘home t...

As I take time to reflect upon completing my first year in my new (employed) role of teaching children with Profound and Multiple Learning D

Oliver is one week old, we have spent our first week on the #NeonatalIntensiveCareUnit #NICU and we are thrilled to say that Oliver has wowed us all… The pas...

Joshua and Sophie are now older siblings, their brother Oliver James couldn’t wait to make his arrival! On Saturday 6th July, Oliver James was born at 15:17p...

To James on Father’s Day 2019, You are appreciated for being the most amazing Daddy to our children. You have supported me in every way since our lives were ...

Pop along to the #Rochdale #SEND Information Day today to meet Emma, our Session Manager. Take a look at our timetable, photographs and have a chat about how...

These photographs 1 year apart... 💙💔💙 On the 16th May 2016, our world was perfect, Josh was 8 days old being doted on by his loving sister as always! One ...

Today, 8th May 2019 we mark our beloved, brave Joshua’s 3rd birthday. It breaks our hearts not to be celebrating as we should be, to only have the ‘what ifs’...

So this time last week... I'm still feeling totally overwhelmed, being nominated and shortlisted for #SpringhillHospice #Rochdale Woman of the Year 2019 was ...

Today I was honoured to attend the #SpringhillHospice ‘#Rochdale Woman of the Year 2019’ event at the Town Hall as a shortlisted nominee; this in itself was ...

#MothersDay 2019 Happy Mother's Day to all of our #JollyJosh mummies x It’s been 1 year and 7 months since Joshua passed away, how is that so? Time seems to ...

As we come to the end of #FeedingTubeAwarenessWeek2019 this seems perfectly fitting to share. Josh was tube fed throughout 24 hours, I woke up many times in ...