Group

Swindon Sands was set up in 2008 by Cathy Milburn and Natasha Vesma, who first met through the national sands support forum after losing their own little boys at similar times. Cathy moved to Swindon from Torquay with her family soon after losing her little boy, to find there was no support for parents who had the devastating journey of coming to terms with their loss. So she looked into the possibility of setting up a support group in the area. Meanwhile Natasha also moved close to Swindon and had the same thoughts about a need for support and so they joined up, did the befriender training together and jumped straight in!

Cathy is still Group Chair and Natasha was Group Secretary until June 2010. Thank you so much to Tasha and her husband Dan for all their hard work in helping to get the group off the ground.