Seven-year-old Sofia Le Brunn-Healey passed away from a rare brain cancer, her family have launched the Bluebell Circle Community Project, to raise money for a memorial bench by the River Medway.
00:00This might look like an event for the bank holiday, but it's helping one family in Hauling who have set up the Bluebell Circle Community Project to raise money for the perfect memorial of their daughter.
00:15So this is a fun day at Newtown Social Club in Hauling. It's in memory of my daughter Sophia Lebron-Healy who passed away of cancer at the end of March this year.
00:25So the community have come together, put on a fun day to raise some funds to create a memorial down by the river for her and then hopefully do some regeneration of the area as well at the same time.
00:37Phase one of Sophia's memorial project will be building a wooden throne that looks like this and it's looking to be put up around this time next year.
00:48Fortunately for the family, they haven't had to face the grief and challenges alone.
00:55So we've been so lucky, my husband and I, Rob and myself, we've been surrounded by a community of friends, family, even strangers to come and join this group called the Bluebell Circle.
01:07And to create this lasting memorial for our special daughter. Those women, those men, are working so incredibly hard for, you know, someone else's kid.
01:19And we're so grateful for everything that this community is doing for us. We feel so special to live here and the people around here are special.
01:28Something we'll never get over. Never, never, never get over.
01:31No, she's, she was very, a very special child and the time goes on. I think you realise how special she was because we only had her for such a short time.
01:42But it's, I think for the whole family, it has been a really tough time. And I, I know I have days when I really struggle.
01:49So, yeah, me too. With losing her. And we support each other, don't we, Kat?
01:55We do, we do support each other because we both know exactly how we're feeling and we don't want to put that onto mum and dad, do we?
02:01No, no, no.
02:02The family will also be hosting a Remembrance Walk on Saturday, the 22nd of November, the day after Sophia's birthday.
02:13Despite losing a daughter so young, her family and the community are striving to keep her memory alive.
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