Walk of Light raises awareness for Baby Loss Awareness Week

Inverness welcomes the Walk of Light to the city centre for the first time in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

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00:00 I'm Lindsay Donaldson and I'm the peer supporter and hospital liaison for the Highlands.

00:05 And I'm Jackie Heasley, I'm head of fundraising for Held in Our Hearts.

00:10 So the Walk of Light is something that the team in Edinburgh have been doing for a few years now.

00:15 So Held in Our Hearts have come together with bereaved families in our community

00:20 and it's just a time to not sit in isolation and be alone when you're lighting your candle

00:27 on the 7 o'clock on the 15th of October.

00:30 And it's something we wanted to emulate up here in Inverness.

00:33 We have only been running our services in Inverness for 18 months

00:40 but the response and the referrals and the feedback that we're getting in the services

00:45 from our peer supporter and our counsellor has been phenomenal.

00:50 And we know it's so valued, the service that we're providing

00:54 and the amount of people coming through to us, we know that it's needed.

00:58 So to have it here, to have this walk, shows how much our services are needed

01:03 and how much our families need to be part of the community that's celebrating the way of light today.

01:09 The turnout today I think was perfect.

01:13 It's our first year of walking in Inverness on this date

01:18 and I can honestly say that a lot of the families that we support came on the walk

01:22 which was lovely to see, but it's also been well attended by people that we don't support

01:27 so it just shows the need for the walk tonight.