About us

Congratulations on discovering our website.  To have done so, you’ll almost certainly have experienced recent or longer term widow(er)hood or know a close family member or friend who has.

Here at Sunday Scene we aim to provide information, exchange views, share tips, gather information, make friends in the ‘chat room’ to ease the social isolation that often surrounds recent bereavement, and generally support and encourage you in taking positive steps to rebuild a meaningful, fulfilling and rewarding life.

In our experience there isn’t a great deal of information with which to help us through this major life transition so in time we plan to develop the website as the place to go – where people empathise with the feelings of emptiness, loneliness and aloneness that so often beset those coming to terms with the loss of a life partner, but also offer hope and practical help in moving forward.

As with most things in life, the more we put in, the greater the benefit, so do let us know of good news stories, snippets of helpful or useful information, uplifting articles in the press or magazines and anything else that might be of interest.  We like anything that makes us laugh too!

Jacquie Clarke, founder of Sunday Scene and Sunday Scene Breakfast Clubs, is passionate about empowering men and women who’ve been widowed, to work through bereavement in a positive way. Life may never be quite the same, but in many different ways it can be vibrant, joyful, meaningful and fulfilling. Here at ‘Sunday Scene’ our firm intention is to provide a website that supports, inspires and encourages widowed people to grasp new opportunities with both hands and perhaps discover wonderful aspects of themselves hitherto unacknowledged or under-developed. 
 
Widowed in 2004 after 44 years of marriage, Jacquie chose to share her experiences by writing a book called Dancing Through the Void, A Personal Approach to Working Through Widowhood (see ‘Publications’). Since then, drawing upon other earlier experiences in employment counselling, staff training, management, research & development of training courses, marketing, publicity, complementary therapies, coaching, writing, wife, mother and many years as ‘carer’ not only to her late husband but also previously to her late parents, she’s sought other ways in which to support fellow widows and widowers.

Now constituted as a Voluntary Organisation with an effective Management Committee, Sunday Scene Breakfast Clubs is on course to expand and the website will enable us to reach out nationally to many more people.

 

 

We hope you’ll visit the website often, share your own uplifting experiences, get involved with projects, tell other people about it, use the Chat Room, and when ready, move on in life as confident, competent, independent, 21st century individuals. 

Dare to live. Dare to become all that you can be.