Tickets: By Donation Only
Programme:
6:30pm - Doors open and drinks
7:00pm - Death Cafe / Drinks and mingling
9:00pm - Doors Closed
Have you ever felt alone with thoughts around death and wanted to explore this topic with open-minded people?
Mourning Projects and the Hearth are running a Death Café, which is a group directed discussion where people can talk about death, find meaning, ask questions and reflect on what’s important. We will welcome you to the space with cake, tea, warmth, and curiosity.
Mourning Projects aims to create a space where you can acknowledge life, what you have lost, and everything in-between. Death and grief often remain overlooked, shrouded in uncertainty and fear. The reality is that death makes life whole.
The Death Café is run on a donation basis, with all contributions helping to cover the facilitator’s time, venue costs, and staffing—ensuring we can continue offering these invaluable conversations to a broad and accessible audience. If you’re able, we kindly suggest a minimum donation of £5 to support the sustainability of these events.
Rebecca Illing
Death Doula
Rebecca Illing is a compassionate and dedicated death doula whose work centers on fostering open, meaningful conversations around death and dying within her community. With a deep commitment to shifting societal perspectives, Rebecca is passionate about addressing the alienation we often feel toward death and the tendency to engage with mortality only when it is too late.
Rebecca offers personalised, one-on-one sessions to clients seeking to explore their own lives, better understand their mortality, and prepare consciously for death. She also provides invaluable support to families and friends navigating illness and grief. Additionally, Rebecca leads bereavement retreats in Portugal and hosts the Death Cafe at The Hearth, offering a safe space for individuals to gather, share, and reflect on the many aspects of death and dying.
Through her work, Rebecca strives to create environments where the topics of life, death, and everything in between can be explored openly, with care and respect.
Join For Free Events
Hearth Members enjoy events like this for free. From £30 / month for a Social Membership, the cost of 2 in real life events, you can access our programme of events, be a part of our nurturing community and find the space to focus on yourself. We’d love to meet you.