Carry The Weight for Alfie's Squad, 2024

On Saturday, September 14th, Lightbody Health CIC will be taking part in their annual ‘Carry the Weight’ walk from Southport to Otterspool Prom in Liverpool.

This year, they have decided to team up with Alfie’s Squad CIC by launching ‘Carry the Weight for Alfie’s Squad, 2024’.

Alfie’s Squad supports children, and their families, who have been bereaved by suicide. They have a peer support group for children bereaved by suicide in Liverpool which supports children from all over Merseyside and beyond. This group is the first of its kind in the UK.

Some of the participants will be carrying 35lbs of weight, whilst others will be sharing the load between them.

Each of these 35lbs represents a bereaved family who are currently being supported by Alfie’s Squad. This weight not only symbolises people that they have lost, but also the heavy burden that these families carry trying to cope with their grief.

Alfie’s Squad currently supports more than 40 children in or person, as well as children online from across the country. All these children have lost a loved one to suicide.

Everything within Alfie’s Squad has been set up by now 15-year-old Alfie. He tragically lost his dad in 2017 when he was just eight years old. Alfie struggled with feelings of guilt and isolation. He wanted to meet other children in his situation, but there was nothing in the whole of the UK, so Alfie decided to step up and sort it out himself.

Our Carry the Weight walkers will be joined by the families being supported by Alfie’s Squad for the final part of the walk, which will be a poignant tribute to the people they have lost.