I really want someone to ask about safeguarding and regulating Erin’s Angels end of life carers. If someone did, she’d say it was a “super fan”, when really, the concern is for the people who they would be caring for. Who’s training them? Has this person got experience of training others, or is she a nurse, who got sucked in by Abi, like a lot of us did, initially. Being able to nurse someone at the end of their life is such a specialist role, requiring lots of training and experience. Transferring that knowledge, isn’t something everyone can do. Someone has commented that it sounds like something they did for macmillan. I understand that MacMillan didn’t work in her area, but she would have been better off fundraising for them, so there was access for people like Erin. Instead, she is selling more over priced “merch” for e charity that hasn’t even got off the ground yet.
I think she promised Erin she’d help others, and then has realised, there is so much more to it than she anticipated.
She has a somewhat chaotic lifestyle, lots of children, a grandaughter, Amy, her dad, she’s loosing her home, her and Chris don’t have consistent income, she bounces from one “business venture” to another, and is now flogging tart at a boot sale; whilst Lady Lyra is shoved in the back of the van, reminiscent of the woman from “The Brittas Empire”, who kept her baby in the drawer of her office!
I don’t think I’ve mentioned on this thread, but I have a friend who set up a charity after tragically loosing her daughter. Her and her husband run the charity and have done for 10 years. It’s been extremely difficult to keep the charity going, despite all the hard work and dedication they put into it. What they do in the charity has saved so many lives (I wish I could tell you what it is, but I’ll dox myself!) and they didn’t just decide to set up the charity without a lot of support and professional trainers. They do so much fundraising throughout the year and I know how much dedication it takes to make sure the charity continues.
I think Abi is pretty much on her own setting it up. Dan doesn’t appear to like social media (it didn’t stop Abi posting a photo of him, unwell the other day) and he didn’t give permission for Abi to share photos from the funeral. She will have been counting on that to share when her views and comments dropped, which they are doing now.
She is also fundraising for another hospice, and I don’t think has started training or raised much yet and that’s very soon!
I think it won’t be long before she announces it won’t be going ahead