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Second Star is delighted to welcome the Wild Clover Flower Company as a partner florist. Wild Clover was founded by Alli Clover – a second generation florist – who has an unrivaled passion for local, British and Dutch flowers. Alli began honing her craft during the holidays, working with her mum in the workshop and making her first creations from the offcuts she found on the workshop floor.

Fast forward and Alli now runs her own successful florist – sometimes with her mum’s help – where she sources flowers from British and Dutch auctions. The elegant frontage of the Wild Clover Flower Company adorns Ely’s famous Fore Hill and takes deliveries of fresh flowers up to 6 days a week, meaning that Alli’s wonderful creations are always looking their best and most beautiful.

We are thrilled to be working with Alli and her team, and are delighted to expand Second Star’s voucher program into the beautiful city of Ely.

Second Star is delighted to release its range of Christmas Greetings Cards. Design by an amazing local artist, and coming in four beautiful designs, each card features a winter flower, and is dedicated to a little one lost during pregnancy or delivery.

Every penny of the profit from the sales of our cards will go towards supporting our mission to deliver comfort to Cambridgeshire families impacted by baby loss.

You can buy the cards online via our shop, or you can call into the wonderful Burwash Larder who are also stocking them this Christmas.

Second Star will be at the Rosie Hospital running one of our Pop-up Bakery events. We’re around on the main entrance way to the Rosie Hospital (more or less opposite the main receiption) on Monday 9th October, and Friday 13th Octoboer from 09:00 to 15:00.

We will be offering all manner of delicious items for you to sample, and every penny we generate will go directly to delivering Second Star’s mission to offer comfort to familes in Cambridgeshire experiencing baby loss.

Our participation at the Rosie is part of a string of Baby Loss Awareness week, and at the kind invitation of the Rosie Hopsital’s Bereavement team.

Second Star is delighted to announce that the wonderful Gin House Flowers in Histon has joined the Second Star voucher program as a parter florist. We are delighted to welcome our first florist outside of Cambridge city center to the program, further extending the choices and convenience available to our parents.

Gin House Flowers was founded and is run by Lucy Hill. Lucy started Gin House Flowers after developing a passion for floristry during her Saturday jobs, and after studying the craft at College, Lucy shunned the family business (Rock n’ Roll no less!) and set up Gin House Flowers on Histon High Street.

On the 20th August, Second Star will hold their first ever Second Star Pop-up Bakery. The bakery is part of the Waterbeach Community Market, which is held on the 3rd Sunday of every month at the Waterbeach Barracks, in the village of Waterbach. As part of the Second Star Pop-up Bakery, we will be offering customers the chance to support Second Star by purchasing an array of delicious, home-baked sweet treats. Giving to a worthwhile cause never tasted so good!

Everything we bake is completely hand made, using only ingredients you would find in your own kitchen.

To find out more about what the Second Star Pop-up Bakery, please visit our dedicated page on our website.

We’ll see you there!

Did you know you can support Second Star by raising money every time you shop online? – and it doesn’t cost a penny!

We’re using easyfundraising, a free fundraising platform that allows us to earn money when we all shop online. easyfundraising works with over 7,000 online retailers, everyone from Tesco, eBay, Sports Direct, M&S, Boots, Just Eat, Booking.com, and everything in between.

Once signed up all you need to do is start your shopping journey at the easyfundraising website, use the browser extension or app (information will be provided when you register) and the retailer you shop with will send us a free donation based on how much you spend.

With the cost of living impacting everyone, this isn’t about asking you to spend more, but to make you aware that if you are making an on-line purchase anyway that by using easyfundraising you can give to us at the same time and at no additional cost to you. 

So please support us if you can by registering yourself today at http://efraising.org/OKYL3EDNBK it only takes 2 minutes and all you need is your email address. Please also share with your friends and family if they would also like to help!

 PLUS – to help us get up and running, for a limited time only, we have been offered an additional incentive!

For the next two weeks easyfundraising will give us £1 for every new supporter if we can get a minimum of 10 signed up WITH NO UPPER LIMIT, so 10 = £10, 20 = £20 and so on so now is the ideal time to do it.  Register here today: http://efraising.org/OKYL3EDNBK

Second Star is delighted to launch its vouher service for parents with our first two partner florists, they are Barnwell Florist and The Flower Project. The team at Second Star could not be more thrilled to partner with such great local businesses to begin the delivery our voucher scheme.

Barnwell Florist was founded in 1965, and is actually the longest established florist in Cambridge. Naomi and her team of highly skilled florists operate a warm and caring family-run business. They are conveniently located on Newmarket Road, opposite the Cambridge Retail Park.

The Flower Project were established in 2020, by Clare Cook. Located on trendy Mill Road, The Flower Project’s eco-friendly ethos marks them out as one of the most exciting florists in Cambridge. The team share the shop with their ‘Morale Mascot’ Carter, Clare’s puppy!

We are delighted to announce that Second Star is now a registered charity in England and Wales. The aim of Second Star is to provide items of comfort to families impacted by baby loss. We have lots of plans for what this might mean in the future, but for now what this means is that we provide families with flowers for their baby’s funeral. We know from first hand experience how unimaginably challenging it is trying to organise a funeral for the baby you had been excitedly waiting for. We understand the heartache of having the parenting choices you thought were ahead of you taken away, instead you are left with the decisions about how to say goodbye to your little one. These decisions are so important for grieving parents and we hope that Second Star can offer a small gesture of support at this difficult time.

We are a small charity that relies on donations to be able to carry out this work. If you would like to support us, details of how to donate can be found here on our website.