Name: Claire Groves
Organisation: Groves Family Funeral Directors
Award Category: Bereavement Worker
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My Plea:
I’m Claire Groves, a Funeral Director in Weston-super-Mare.
I’ve been nominated for a Butterfly Award by a wonderful couple, Tom and Natasha who I helped after they sadly lost their baby girl Evelyn Grace earlier this year.
Please vote for me to win the award of Support Worker in order that I can honour Tom and Natasha’s selfless act of recognition that they chose to acknowledge at one of the most tragic times of their lives.
I’d love to win this award for both the two of them, their precious Evelyn Grace and their beautiful family x
What Others Have Said
I want to nominate our funeral director Claire at Groves Funeral directors. From the moment we spoke to Claire about the loss of our daughter she knew exactly what to do and say. Claire was flexible and went out of her way to meet everything we needed. Claire was compassionate and supportive and nothing was too much trouble. Claire made sure the little details were taken care of. For example Claire picked up on a butterfly theme we had adopted for our fundraising and placed a single white butterfly broach on every order of service, we also requested no flowers so instead Claire places beautiful silk butterflies on Evelyn’s coffin. Claire was on call day and night if we needed her. Just a week after the funeral Claire delivered a beautiful handmade personalised wooden memory box, which is a service they now offer bereaved parents. It was so special and meant we could transfer Evelyn’s memories from the standard memory box issued at the hospital into her own keepsake. Claire really did go above and beyond and I feel like I have developed a friend in Claire.
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I would like to vote for Claire and Nigel groves they helped so much and took so much into consideration when my beautiful neice lexie may passed back in 2016 they put on such a beautiful service thank you so much ❤❤
I would like to vote. I know Becky and what she has gone through.
Clare worked for a different funeral parlour when my 8 week old Grandson died 9 years ago. She was an enormous support for my daughter and son in law at the time. She was totally professional, kind and a huge comfort to us all at this Incredibly sad time.
Massively helped my cousin and her partner when they sadly lost their baby boy, aged 5 days old.
So kind, understanding and thoughtful
A compassionate family business , who put people first❤️
Mr & Mrs Grove are very caring people, they helped our daughter and son in law with compassion . At a very difficult time in their lives . Nothing Was too much trouble .
Very nice people to deal with during very difficult times they dealt with our daughter and her partner very sympathetically I would recommend Mr & Mrs Groves
Nothing was too much, messages at all hours answered and full support given. Even little extra special touches. Highly recommended
I want to nominate Claire Groves as a dear friend has had so much support and says she is amazing at her job at the worst time of her life bless you Claire
I’ve heard nothing but fantastic reports of how far you go to help.
For supporting a friend in her hour of need
Claire is a wonderful compassionate lady who always goes above and beyond
Very supportive to my niece and her partner when their beautiful baby boy Arther was born sleeping .
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Claire and Nigel organised my mum’s funeral. She passed away unexpectedly while i was on holiday. My brother lives overseas and it all happened around Christmas time. It had potential to be a logistical nightmare but it wasn’t because these two caring, lovely people were on hand. I simply cannot express how amazing these two people are. They are helpful, supportive, caring and compassionate. They are simply two of the most genuine and caring people I’ve ever met. I have recommended them to others going through a bereavement with absolutely no hesitation and Claire and Nigel have exceeded all expectations.
words could never be enough to show the gratitude we have for groves funeral services when we lost our only daughter our only child at 37 years old on 3rd june 2018
Claire and nigel and all there team helped us and supported through this very upsetting time we could never thank Claire enough for looking after our daughter YVETTE from putting butterflys (a very special thing with YVETTE)on the order of service to putting mine and YVETTES favourite whiskey in the chapel of rest on fathers day WHEN WE WENT TO VISIT as she found out we always had a glass together on fathers day/just all the special memories
they also made all arrangements and bought her back to Birmingham to be buried
god bless to you all and especially claire
At an extremely difficult time in our families lives Claire supported my sister in the best possible way. Kind, considerate, caring and thoughtful.
Thank you Claire xx
I would like to nominate Claire as she has been amazing to a friend and her family at such a difficult time .nothing was to much trouble she went above and beyond to help them .xx
Beautiful. A loving and caring lady, who always goes above and beyond. ❤️
At the hardest and most distressing period of my life Claire was there. Walking the hard road besides me, always there. I am deeply grateful to her for her loving support.
We can’t thank Claire and Nigel enough for their level of care and compassion when Evelyn Grace was still born this year. No family can ever think about processing the loss of a child at any stage or age and Claire made sure everything was taken care of. Tom and I will forever be grateful to you and your team.
Claire, Nigel and their team will go above and beyond to help the grieving relatives, they are compassionate and very emphatic. Amazing Couple ❤️❤️
Both Nigel and Claire are incredibly kind, caring, compassionate, professional people who understand everything that each of us is going through, absolutely nothing was too much trouble for these lovely, genuine people and nobody could ever deserve this award more. Neither myself nor my family will forget what they did for us in our darkest hours of need.
we would like to nominate jackie and the groves family as they looked after us in our moment of such a difficult and distressing time , we are all very grateful to you all.