Bereavement
Losing someone you care about can be incredibly difficult. Grief affects everyone differently, and there is no “right” way to cope.
Support is available for anyone experiencing bereavement, including:
Emotional support and counselling
Peer and community support groups
Practical advice for managing arrangements and legal matters
In the Merton area, there are a range of services to help you through this difficult time. Speaking to trained professionals or joining a support group can make coping with grief a little easier.
Remember:
You don’t have to face bereavement alone. Help and guidance are available, whenever you need it.
-
Raynes Park Bereavement Service provides free and confidential one to one support to people who have had a bereavement, recently or in the past.
Telephone: 07914 263420
Website: www.mvsc.co.uk
-
Survivors of bereavement by suicide exist to meet the needs and break the isolation experienced by those bereaved by suicide.
Telephone: 0300 111 5065
Website: www.uksobs.org.uk
Email: email.support@uksobs.org
-
Their mission is to offer support, advice and information to children, young people and adults when someone dies and to enhance society’s care of bereaved people.
Telephone: 0808 808 1677
Website: www.cruse.org.uk
-
Bereavement Advice Centre supports and advises people on what they need to do after a death. They welcome calls from bereaved people and the professionals and volunteers who support them.
Telephone: 0800 634 9494
Website: www.bereavementadvice.org.uk
Write: Bereavement Advice Centre, Simplify, Heron House, Timothy’s, Bridge Road, Stratford Upon Avon, CV37 9BX
-
Working together they help you to cope with your loss and consider what support is available.
Telephone: 020 8946 0735
Website: www.wimbledonguild.co.uk
-
They are a pre and post bereavement service; so children and young people can have access to before the death of a close family member which helps with their grieving process when the person dies.
Telephone: 020 8687 1384
Website: www.jigsaw4u.org.uk
-
Grief is a natural response to losing someone you care about. There’s no right or wrong way to grieve. Everyone’s experiences of grief are individual.
Support Line: 0800 090 2309
Website: www.mariecurie.org.uk
-
AtaLoss.org is a charitable movement of people across the UK who are passionate about enabling the bereaved to receive the support that they need – in easing the pain together.
Website: www.ataloss.org.uk
Email Us
-
The objective of the project is to ensure that all bereaved parents are offered equal, high quality, individualised, safe and sensitive care in any experience of pregnancy or baby loss.
Telephone: 0808 164 3332
Website: www.sands.org.uk
Email:helpline@sands.org.uk
-
Are you a child, teenager or adult who has experienced the death of a loved one? Are you a caregiver who needs advice on how to support young people following the death of a parent or sibling? Do you need to talk? You can call, email or instant chat with trained professionals at grieftalk, 5 days a week, 9am – 9pm.
Telephone: 0808 802 0111
Website: www.griefencounter.org.uk