Bereavement Resources
When someone dies, it can be helpful to talk or listen to people who are in the same situation or have had a similar experience.
Below is a list of free bereavemet resources, books, podcasts and organisations that you may useful, including child bereavment resources.
Berevement organisations, groups and websites for everyone
Pop-up Grief Café at Mortlake Crematorium
These are held on first Saturday of each month between 2pm and 4pm and run in partnership with the Good Grief Trust and facilitated by the team at Mortlake Crematorium. Groups are held outside in the summer, and in the waiting room in the colder months.
www.mortlakecrematorium.org/mortlake-events
Modern Loss
Resources, ideas, articles, events and news about navigating your life after a death.
modernloss.com/who-we-are
The Good Grief Trust
A support group that aims to encourage people to talk about grief in a more honest, straightforward way, which helps to make the pain a little more bearable for those in the early stages of their own grief ‘journey’.
thegoodgrieftrust.org
AtaLoss
AtaLoss helps bereaved people find support and wellbeing with information on resources, specialist care and emergency support all in one place.
ataloss.org
When you’re experiencing a bereavment, it’s important to remember that you’re not alone. As well the many organisations available to you, the Exit Here team are always on hand to signpost you to resources that can help."
Sam Gage, funeral director
If you have lost someone to Cancer or Covid-19
Maggie’s Centre
Groups for families, individuals, children, carers, and young people are led by a psychologist and provide support for people affected by the emotional impact of cancer. There are also networking groups for people living with the same type of cancer before, during, and after treatment. Each centre runs different groups. Find your nearest one below.
www.maggies.org/our-centres
The Loss Foundation
Support groups are all online and are specifically for those who have lost someone through cancer or Covid-19. They also run more tailored therapy groups, which consist of 8 sessions over 12 weeks. These focus on specific aspects of grief related issues you may be experiencing like lack of sleep, anxiety and difficult memories.
thelossfoundation.org/support-groups
BAMEstream
Although not a group, these online/phone support sessions can signpost you to further help, and are aimed at over 18s from a Black, Asian or any other ethnic minority who has been affected by the death of a loved one due to Covid-19. Help and advice is provided in partnership with the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
www.bamestream.org.uk/bereavement-support/
Bereavement services for young adults
Hope Again
Hope Again is a website created for young people, by young people and offers support, advice and a signposting service to young people and children who have lost loved ones.
hopeagain.org.uk
The grief network
A community by and for bereaved young people in their teens, twenties and thirties with meet-ups and events in London.
Griefnetwork on Instagram
The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is a community of 21-45-year-olds who meet regularly online and who have each experienced the loss of a parent, partner, child, sibling, another close family member, or close friend.
thedinnerparty.org
Let’s Talk about Loss
Let’s Talk About Loss, is a safe space to talk through taboos and address the reality of losing someone close to you when you are young. They run meet-ups across the UK for young people aged 18–35.
letstalkaboutloss.org
For those who have lost a partner before their 51st birthday
Widowed and Young
Widowed and Young supports men and women who have lost a partner before their 51st birthday, with support, understanding and friendship.
widowedandyoung.org.uk
Young people and child bereavement resources
Winston’s Wish
Winston’s Wish is a charity that helps children, teenagers and young people, up to the age of 25, find their feet when their worlds are turned upside down by grief.
winstonswish.org
Halo Children’s Foundation
Halo supports children and their families with bereavement through arts and play.
halochildrensfoundation.org.uk
The Compassionate Friends
Compassionate Friends provide a huge range of support for bereaved parents and siblings with online and in-person groups and retreats all over the UK.
www.tcf.org.uk/in-your-area/
If you have lost someone to substance use
GRASP (Grief Support After a Substance Passing)
An international organisation for those families and individuals who are experiencing bereavement due to a substance use related death.
Groups take place on the first Sunday of every month from 6pm to 8pm at the Hugh Cubitt Centre, 48 Collier Street, London, N1 9QZ. Pre-registration is requested if you wish to attend. Please email londongraspchapter@gmail.com
grasphelp.org/about-us/
Local bereavement support services
Bereft Bereavement Support in Ealing
Bereft Bereavement Support provides specialist bereavement counselling and support for adult residents (over 16s) in the London Borough of Ealing.
bereftbereavementsupport.co.uk
Hounslow Youth Counselling Service
HYCS offers a free, 1-2-1 counselling service for young people aged 11 – 25 who lives, works or studies in the London Borough of Hounslow.
www.hycscounselling.co.uk
Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow: Mind
Mind’s Safe Space is a local hub for anyone who feels they are nearing crisis point and who are struggling with stress, or a life changing event like a bereavement.
www.hfehmind.org.uk/get-support/hammersmith-fulham-safe-space/
Space2grieve in Richmond
Space2grieve offers free, confidential, one-to-one bereavement support to anyone living in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames via phone, Zoom, or in person.
space2grieve.org.uk
Wandsworth Bereavement Service
The WBS provides one-to-one bereavement counselling for residents of the London Borough of Wandsworth.
www.wandsworthbereavement.org.uk
CCIWBS
The Camden, City, Islington and Westminster Bereavement Service offers bereavement and loss Counselling in central and north London.
www.bereavement-counselling.org
Bereavement apps
A Part of Me
A Part of Me is an app, a game, and a community which has been designed with children and young people in mind.
Download A Part of Me
Grief Works
The Grief Works app helps you navigate grief after the death of a loved one and includes guided advice from UK's leading grief expert Julia Samuel.
Download Grief Works
Untangle Grief Support
Untangle holds your hand through all the emotional and logistical challenges that come after a bereavement, making it easier to rebuild your life.
Download Untangle Grief Support
Bereavement Podcasts
Griefcast
Griefcast examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians.
Griefcast podcast
Death: Love, grief and hope
Interviews with people who have lost parents and partners, grandparents and children about why grief is so hard to process and what can we do to help people going through it.
Death: Love, grief, and hope podcast
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
A sad and funny podcast by author Nora McInerny that lets real people get honest about how they’re really doing.
Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast
Bereavement Books
Griefworks by Julia Samuel
A compassionate guide that supports, informs and engage anyone who is grieving, and also provides clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved.
juliasamuel.co.uk/books/grief-works
It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine
A ‘permission slip’ to feel what you feel, do what you do, and say what you say when you’re dealing with a bereavement.
https://refugeingrief.com
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen
The well-known and popular writer chronicles the grief he experienced at the death of his son aged 19 from meningitis.
www.michaelrosen.co.uk/portfolio/michael-rosens-sad-book/
Exit Here Bereavement Support
Our free bereavement coffee mornings are open to everyone and provide a welcoming space where you can talk about your memories, feelings or sadness without fear of judgement.
