Donna Hastings

Donna is the Child and Family Support Worker at St Columba’s Hospice Care in Edinburgh. Prior to this role, she was the Bereavement Coordinator for Richmond’s Hope, a charity dedicated to supporting bereaved children and young people. Donna is also a facilitator for a Bereavement Group in Edinburgh.

She is an experienced training facilitator and an active member of ABSCO (Association of Bereavement Service Co-ordinators) and sits on various groups involved with childhood bereavement. 

Donna is a registered Health Play Specialist and is passionate about improving outcomes for those bereaved in childhood and an advocate for children to be given choice and to be included when someone is dying or has died. 

Donna Hastings