We provide a number of services aimed at supporting bereaved parents:

Listening Ear Helpline

• 24 hour Listening Ear Helpline answered by trained volunteers
• Every trained volunteer is also a bereaved parent
• Callers can talk about any aspect of their bereavement, anytime, day or night
• Volunteer listeners have direct experience of bereavement
• Callers can be confident there is always someone there to listen

Drop-in Centres

• Bereaved parents meet in an informal, safe, friendly and confidential environment
• Staffed by trained volunteer bereaved parents
• Parents can talk to others who can really understand and empathise with them
• Complementary therapies are regularly arranged
• There can be tears, of course, but also laughter too

Follow this link to our Events page for details of venues, dates and times

Befriending Service

• Putting parents in touch with others who have lost a son or daughter through similar circumstances
• Support for newly bereaved parents

Subsidised Counselling

• A course of counselling therapy from a professional counsellor
• Available to bereaved parents according to need
• Applications for counselling will be considered on a case by case basis
• The trust aims to meet some or all of the therapy cost

Type of provision

Universal - This is for everyone, including people with special educational needs and disabilities