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46 swindonlink.com • August 2009
Summer, the time of stress and tension
As the temperature rises and the credit crunch bites, what is the impact on families whose relationships have
broken down? asks Miranda Marsh of Family Mediation Swindon.
Planning an event or a wedding? When you are struggling to cope, Family Mediation in Milton ents to make the decisions and a
Let us organize it for you.
We can save you time and money on your event. the children are showing signs Road, Swindon, has a range of skilled and experienced mediator
Call us now for a FREE consultation of distress and your fi nances are projects that offer help and support may help even the most confl icted
Tel: 01202 533014 • Mobile: 07968 260431 stretched to their limits, where to separating parents and their parents to work together to make
www.bellissimo-events.co.uk can you turn for help? children. arrangements that will benefi t their
When parents separate it is children.
DVD TERRY WINTER often the perception of different When parents separate, children
attitudes to parenting that lead to will often have feelings of anger,
MONUMENTAL STONEMASON
Film Production Services New memorials - Additional inscriptions confl ict. The children return tired sadness or guilt. With understand-
Any event professionally fi lmed and put Old memorials cleaned and renovated and frazzled from a weekend with ing and sometimes, additional
onto DVD disc, at affordable rates. Free estimates • BRAMM accredited dad - is that because bedtime has help, they can work through these
Business and Family events been later than usual or just that feelings and continue to enjoy a
large or small undertaken. Over 25 years’ experience they haven’t been able to sleep childhood enriched by a good re-
Tel: 01793 705333 Tel: 01793 861035 or 07935 309644 because of the heat? lationship with each parent.
We call, discuss and give you a price email: [email protected] In mediation par-
ents can talk about
Stitches Sewing their anxieties, con-
cerns and hopes for
Service their children and

Dressmaking, Alterations and reach agreement on
Repairs, Bespoke Costumes how best to manage

Also Furnishing – Curtains, Cushions and Blinds etc. the challenges of par-
Friendly, reliable service enting apart.
Contact Jean on 07887 600319 The 5-18 Counsel-
ling Project (part of
Family Mediation)
2 BERTH MOTOR HOME FOR HIRE also offers a safe space
SWIFT LIFESTYLE SUNDANCE 530LP where children can
Seat confi guration:
ANYTHING TRANSFERRED ONTO DVD DISC 1 double or 2 single beds School holidays loom and, with share their feelings and begin to
Specialist in Cine Film Transfer, Camcorder EQUIPMENT INCLUDED: fi nances tight, both parents need make sense of their own reactions
Gas Heater, Fridge, Gas cooker,
Tapes, VHS Tapes, Camcorder Discs Microwave, Fresh water tank, to work. Before the separation you to the changes in their lives.
We collect and deliver over a wide area Mains power supply 240v/12v, Awning may have relied on each other for The stress felt by teenagers fac-
BATHROOM FACILITIES: Shower, Toilet, Water heater
T: 01793 705333 / M: 07831 575758 For details contact Mandy on support. Often the assumption is ing a future where employment
PO Box 2079, Manvers St, Bath BA1 3TJ 01793 702609 or 07758 396839 that this can no longer be the case - prospects look bleak can lead to
but why? Arrangements can still be a breakdown in their relationship
made so you can support each other with their parents. Re-Connect is
On Thames Avenue and the children can benefi t from a service where young people and
next door to time with each of their parents. their families can talk through the
However, often it is diffi cult, if issues causing conflict between
Morrisons not impossible, to talk about such them and reach some understand-
Contact: things when feelings of anger, ing of how they can repair their
Revd Raymond Adams hurt and mistrust mean that com- relationship.
In all the projects offered by Fam-
munication has broken down. As
Tel: 634258 well as helping separating parents ily Mediation, the focus is on the
St. John’s Haydon Wick with decisions around fi nances needs of children and families when
and arrangements for the children, separation and divorce can lead to
mediation encourages discussion of confl ict - in a real world where the
Sunday Services the details that can make so much pressures of recession, school holi-
9am Traditional communion service difference to a child’s security and days and even a heatwave need to
11am Eventful, contemporary worship relationship with each parent. be taken into account.
with children’s groups meeting Children do not want to have For more information please call
to choose which parent to spend Family Mediation on 527285.
www.stjohnshaydonwick.org.uk time with. They want their par- www.mediationswindon.co.uk

Sunday Worship 10.30am
Sunday School and Creche Join us in worship on Sunday mornings
Westlea Church, Westlea School: 10am
Meeting at Abbey Meads
Community School St Mary’s, Lydiard Tregoze - the church in the park: 10am
All Saints’, Lydiard Millicent - the church in the village: 10.30am
Holy Trinity, Shaw: 10.30am
Toothill Church: 10.30am
For details of these and our other services
call the Partnership Offi ce on 874221
Email: partnershipoffi [email protected]
www.wswinlyd.org.uk
Anglican • Baptist • Methodist • United Reformed Church

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