UK bereavement support workplaces
Trusted charities and services offering helplines, counselling and guidance for children, young people and families.
Child Bereavement UK
Supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies, is dying, or when a child faces bereavement. Helpline, online support, and resources for schools.
Visit site →Together for Short Lives
Supporting seriously ill children and their families, working with professionals and services across the UK.
Visit site →Grief Encounter
Bereavement support for children, young people and families: counselling, workshops and a free helpline.
Visit site →Cruse Bereavement Support
Bereavement support for anyone who needs it, through phone, email and face-to-face services.
Visit site →Hope Again
Cruse's free, confidential service for young people (12 to 25) who are coping with bereavement.
Visit site →The Good Grief Trust
A UK-wide directory of bereavement services, connecting people to the right support wherever they live.
Visit site →At A Loss
The UK's signposting service for the bereaved, helping people find the right type of support for their situation.
Visit site →Marie Curie
End-of-life care and bereavement support for people with a terminal illness and the people who love them.
Visit site →WAY, Widowed and Young
A peer-to-peer support network for anyone widowed under the age of 51, and their children.
Visit site →US bereavement support workplaces
Trusted national workplaces offering grief support, camps and directories for children, young people and families.
The Dougy Center
The national leader in grief support for children, teens and families, with resources and a directory used across the US.
Visit site →Judi's House / JAG Institute
Free comprehensive grief care for bereaved children and families in Denver, and national research on childhood bereavement.
Visit site →National Alliance for Children's Grief
A nationwide network helping families find local grief support wherever they are in the US.
Visit site →Eluna Network (Camp Erin)
Runs free bereavement camps and year-round support for grieving children and families across the country.
Visit site →The Compassionate Friends
Supporting families after the death of a child, with local chapters nationwide.
Visit site →Comfort Zone Camp
One of the largest providers of free bereavement camps for children in the US.
Visit site →Experience Camps
Free summer camps and year-round programs for children grieving the death of someone important to them.
Visit site →Bo's Place
A bereavement center supporting grieving children, their families and adults through peer support groups.
Visit site →Soaring Spirits International
A widowed community offering peer support and events, including Camp Widow, for people of all backgrounds.
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Books for children living with grief
Grouped by age. Every family and every child is different, these are a starting point, not a prescription.
Ages 3-6
Picture booksThe Invisible String
A gentle metaphor: the people we love are always connected to us by an invisible string of love.
View on Amazon UK →Badger's Parting Gifts
A tender classic: Badger's friends remember the gifts he gave each of them.
View on Amazon UK →Goodbye Mog
Mog the Cat dies, and her family learns how to remember her. Very gentle.
View on Amazon UK →Always and Forever
A family of animals grieves and slowly remembers together. Warm and reassuring.
View on Amazon UK →Missing Mummy
A sensitive, honest picture book about a young child whose mother has died.
View on Amazon UK →When Dinosaurs Die
Clear, honest answers to the questions children ask about death, in picture-book form.
View on Amazon UK →Ages 7-10
Michael Rosen's Sad Book
Written after the death of his son Eddie. Extraordinarily honest and moving.
View on Amazon UK →The Heart and the Bottle
A girl puts her heart in a bottle to keep it safe after the death of someone she loved.
View on Amazon UK →Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Four children sit with Death the night before their grandmother dies. Beautiful and unflinching.
View on Amazon UK →Is Daddy Coming Back in a Minute?
A real family's story of explaining a sudden death to a young child.
View on Amazon UK →The Rabbit Listened
When something sad happens, sometimes the best thing is for someone to sit with you and listen.
View on Amazon UK →Ages 11-14
A Monster Calls
A boy whose mother is dying is visited by a monster. Devastating and beautiful.
View on Amazon UK →Bridge to Terabithia
A friendship changed forever by a death. A modern classic.
View on Amazon UK →Counting by 7s
A gifted girl grieves the sudden death of her adoptive parents and finds an unlikely new family.
View on Amazon UK →Love That Dog
A short verse novel about a boy's grief after the death of a beloved dog.
View on Amazon UK →Ages 15+
The Sky is Everywhere
A teenager navigating life after the sudden death of her older sister.
View on Amazon UK →We Are Okay
Grief, isolation and love. Quiet, powerful, deeply felt.
View on Amazon UK →The Fault in Our Stars
Two teenagers with cancer on mortality, meaning and love.
View on Amazon UK →Books for adults
For supporting a grieving child, and for tending to your own grief alongside it.
For parents & carers
supporting a grieving childLifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children
A simple, classic introduction to death in nature, used with children for decades.
View on Amazon UK →35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child
Short, practical guidance from one of the world's leading centres for bereaved children.
View on Amazon UK →Guiding Your Child Through Grief
A comprehensive handbook for parents and carers.
View on Amazon UK →Never Too Young to Know
Research-informed and compassionate writing on how children of all ages process death.
View on Amazon UK →For adults
processing their own griefGrief Works
By a British psychotherapist who has worked with bereaved families for decades.
View on Amazon UK →It's OK That You're Not OK
A validating, no-nonsense view of grief that rejects tidy stages and timelines.
View on Amazon UK →A Grief Observed
A short, honest classic, written after the death of his wife. Raw and enduring.
View on Amazon UK →H is for Hawk
A grief memoir wound through training a goshawk after the sudden death of the author's father.
View on Amazon UK →On Grief and Grieving
The classic text on the stages of grief.
View on Amazon UK →Bearing the Unbearable
A bereavement specialist's gentle, deeply humane companion for the bereaved.
View on Amazon UK →Option B
Practical, grounded advice from a bereaved partner and an organisational psychologist.
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Podcasts on grief and bereavement
Honest, human conversations about loss, for when you want company in it.
Griefcast
A British comedian talks to guests about the people they've lost. Warm, often funny, always honest.
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
A widowed writer hosts honest conversations about the hardest parts of being human.
What's Your Grief?
Grief educators unpacking how grief actually works.
Grief Out Loud
Short, practical episodes for bereaved children and families.
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