The Olivia's smile charity first came about after the death of charity founder Aimee Wood's 5 year old daughter Olivia in February 2020. Along with the obvious devastation to family and friends, the death also shocked an entire community, particularly the children, families and staff of the local school Olivia attended.
Aimee very quickly realised that although bereavement support was available for her and her immediate family, the school community were very much left to just cope with the unexpected news and pretty much carry on regardless. School staff had to tell pupils of the news whilst grieving themselves, had to try and keep some normality to school life and just keep delivering lessons as normal and often had to face difficult questions without knowing quite what to say. Aimee, a primary school teacher of 20years herself, quickly realised that the school had very little places to go for support in such a difficult situation.
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