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Aims and Objectives

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The Ruby Care Foundation is an educational charity, Registered No. 1091234. It is not affiliated to any religious organisation, nor to any other organisation that serves the terminally ill, the dying or the bereaved.

The Charity was established to serve the following objectives:

  1. To relieve the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical distress of people with terminal illness, facing their own death, or suffering from bereavement or loss of any kind, by the provision of support and counselling

  2. To advance public education by provision of training in caring for the terminally ill, companioning the dying, support-counselling the bereaved and related matters

In the furtherance of these, the Charity:

  • Offers understanding, care and easement to people approaching the time of their death, and to their families and friends

  • Offers sound advice regarding such things as Wills, funeral plans and all matters to do with tidying-up ones affairs at the end of life

  • Offers careful and loving bereavement support and counselling to those who have already lost a loved one

  • Offers help on how to deal with fears, anger, loneliness and other emotions and feelings that arise at the difficult time surrounding death

  • Provides special counselling training, together with talks, lectures and courses on the subjects of death, dying, grief and bereavement, based on the studies and researches of the Ruby Care Foundation international support team

 
 

 

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