Death Cafe profile for Candy Penfold
Location: United Kingdom
https://www.facebook.com/brownbreadcollective/
About Candy Penfold:
Candy Penfold has been working with the dying in several different careers over 15 years, and has been regularly volunteering in her local Medway community for the past 7. She is currently studying to become an End Of Life Doula with Living Well Dying Well, under the instruction of the brilliant Hermione Elliott.
She is one of the founding members of "The Brown Bread Collective" (see link), who are a group of people in Medway all dedicated to improving the conversations, knowledge and choices around death and dying, and breaking the taboos around talking about grief and death.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
End of life doula UK
What would you like your legacy to be?
To be remembered, and to be remembered as being kind and good and making a difference to even just one person that was positive.
Thoughts for sharing:
The worst thing you can do to the bereaved is to avoid them. Most people do, not out of heartlessnes, but because they don't know what to say. Ib response to that, I'd only say, the worst thing has already happened to them. The worst thing that could possibly happen has happened, their loved one is dead. Nothing you can say will make their world any worse than it already is, if your intensions are right. Be prepared to just be there and say nothing as well - that is so much better than avoiding. And if you really want help in knowing what to say, come to a death cafe!
Contact Candy Penfold
Candy Penfold's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Candy Penfold
April 27, 2022, 1.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
I have been hosting Death Cafes in Medway for over 3 years now, and have made some wonderful friendships, and for those I only met for the one meeting, I ...
With Candy and Natasha
Feb. 26, 2020, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT )
Free
Death cafe is a wonderful established way to open up conversations around death and dying. We have reached many many people who would otherwise have no space to openly talk ...
With Candy Penfold
Nov. 27, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free
Candy has good links with COOK - the frozen food chain. Thus, the cakes we bring are all insanely delish. All refreshments are free. Very excited about this cafe as it ...
With Candy Penfold
Oct. 30, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
With Candy Penfold
Sept. 25, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
With Candy and Candy
June 26, 2019, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (Greenwich Mean Time)
Accepts donations
Candy and Candy are both passionate about opening up the barriers to talking about grief, death and dying, and death cafes are in the heart of the community facing these ...
With Candy and Candy
Jan. 30, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
We are holding a Medway Death Cafe to provide a comfortable welcoming space for people to share their views and experiences around death and dying.
We hope that these meetings ...
With Candy and Candy
Jan. 30, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.15 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
We are both part of a local group in Medway; The Brown Bread Collective, who are all dedicated to improving the conversations, knowledge and choices around death and dying, and ...
With Candice Penfold and Candy Worf
Jan. 30, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 8.15 p.m. (London GMT)
Accepts donations
We are part of a network in Medway that all want to break the taboo around grief, death and dying (we’ve cheekily called ourselves the ‘Brown Bread Collective‘ for ...