Grief is a journey that each person experiences differently and strategies which work for one person, may be less effective for someone else. Their is no specific time limit on grief either. One way which may bring comfort through the grief, is the act of writing down feelings or sharing thoughts on paper, whether that is on the day of an important anniversary or any other time of the year.

Located within the West cemetery and Stephenson Way, community spirit have purchased the white ‘letters to heaven’ post boxes which great Aycliffe town council kindly installed and maintain, allowing people to write letters , cards and messages to those they have lost, and ‘post them’.

The letters are confidentially turned into compost and used within the cemetries flower beds.