LAUNCESTON Friendship group of Cruse Bereavement Care, which meets once a month (Second Tuesday of each month between 11am and 1pm) will be meeting at The Orchard, Market Street, Launceston until further notice due to the unavailability of the Committee Room at the Town Hall, where a major renovation scheme is being carried out.

Contact point for fuller details is the Area Office on 01726-76700. Anyone who feels they need to talk with other people who have lost a dear and departed spouse, partner, relative or friend, is welcome to attend. A problem shared is a problem halved!

Our Volunteers will be taking on the challenge of walking from Bodmin to Wadebridge and back, on the Camel Trail, to raise funds for our charity on Saturday May 15 next year. This is open for anyone else to enter to help raise funds. There is plenty of time to get into training, and sponsorship forms are available from the Area Office .

All our clients, who we see throughout the year receive support without cost to themselves, but this comes via donations from various sources in the county and other fundraising.

It is not a race, but just a walk perhaps in memory of someone very dear to your heart.

Last month was the 50th anniversary of Cruse Bereavement Care, and five representatives from the Cornwall Area were invited to join with members from the other 130 branches nationally in a Celebratory Reception held in the State Rooms of St James's Palace with our Patron, Her Majesty The Queen in attendance, who met and talked with several members during the evening and praised them for their unstinting work throughout the years.

In Cornwall alone, over 45,000 miles of the highways and byways are covered seeing people in their own homes and helping them to recover from the loss of a loved and treasured relation or friend.