A Year in Life of @Rainbowsgb Resource Centre during the #Pandemic 2021 Kolla and Caroline

December 20, 2021

A Year in Life of @Rainbowsgb Resource Centre during the #Pandemic 2021 Kolla and Caroline

Rainbows Bereavement Support GB is a national charity that offers training through locally based Registered Directors in the use of resources such as age appropriate journals, games, toys and other materials to foster emotional healing.

We are open Monday to Thursday 9.30 to 14.30, 48 weeks of the year. Kolla our Centre Manager joined Rainbows GB in 2018 when the Resource Centre moved to Liverpool, Caroline joined in 2019 just before the turbulent first wave of lockdown in March 2020.

In January 2021 we started the year with another school lockdown, despite the uncertainty around school closures and home learning the resource centre remained open and very busy. It soon became clear that schools were looking for support for teaching and support staff who were having to adapt to unexpected conditions.

Our work is about making sure schools get the resources they need in a timely manner, for those of you that have ordered in the last 12 months you may have noticed your orders often come in reused boxes, this may tell you more about Kolla and Caroline’s on line shopping than necessary, but it is our aim to reduce costs and waste.

#Reduce, #Reuse, #Recycle

It’s not all about packing in the Resource Centre we were thrilled to be part of a rescue mission for a mother duck and her babies who had got themselves stuck in a courtyard at the Convent of Mercy where we are based and saw them safely on their way to the canal.

Today, there are about half a billion people (+1, us) around the world have Facebook accounts and nearly 200 million (+1, us) have Twitter accounts. Kolla and Caroline are tweeting and posting between packing and sending through the day, find us https://twitter.com/RainbowsGb and https://www.facebook.com/RainbowsGB1

As we approach the end of 2021 we look back on the year where we saw 157 new schools signed up to deliver the programme and sent out more than 250 orders and look forward to 2022 being a better year and with the success of the Aviva Crowdfunding signing up many more schools and supporting more children.