ADAPT supports parents and families of premature and poorly babies whilst on the neonatal units and when the babies go home for as long as support is needed. We help parents and families through the emotional trauma of having a special care baby.

Aftermath works with people in Merseyside and Cheshire affected by the devastation of road crashes. It offers practical help and emotional support to bereaved families and those suffering injury. Also offering support and information to relatives, friends and professional carers helping the family. Services are tailored to meet individual needs.

ACB promotes & develops services enabling people to maintain physical & mental well being, making life fulfilling & enjoyable. Join “Plod along the prom” (sponsored walk), Sunday 19th September 2010, 9am at Pier Approach Bournemouth, help to walk 2,500 miles to celebrate their 25th Anniversary.

1. We aim to improve the quality of life for older people and their carers. 2. We seek to ensure that they maintain their self-respect and independence and enjoy freedom of choice and equal opportunities. 3. We work locally with older people and provide information, education and services.

<p> The Army Widows' Association was formed by a group of Army widows in 2004.It aims to offer support and friendship to those who have sadly lost their husband/wife or recognised partner at any stage of their bereavement through mutual empathy, experiences and by signposting new members to other sources of help at such a difficult time in their lives.<p> <p> The AWA offers its support to all widows bereaved since 1981, death can have been as a result of many reasons: illness, RTA, conflict, suicide, training accidents. We hold an annual weekend and other events where widows can meet up, meet others who are in the same situation as themselves, find out lots of information, raise issues and are developing a network of smaller Regional meetings to improve our support.<p>

Ayrshire Cancer Support has operated in Ayrshire since 1982 providing emotional support and practical help for cancer patients and their families, our aim is to ensure that help is readily available for everyone who needs it. We are an Ayrshire charity and all money we raise is used in Ayrshire.

The charity Bereavement and Loss Looking Onwards (Balloons) provides support to children, young people and their families in Exeter, East and Mid-Devon following the death, or before an expected death, of a parent, significant carer or sibling.

Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide

A cancer diagnosis can come as an enormous shock to patients, their families and carers. They can feel anxious, fearful and often alone. Beechwood aims to provide psychological and emotional support through; one to one time, a range of complementary therapies, group sessions, a Family Therapist and Bereavement Counselling.

BONNIE BABIES MAKES AND SENDS TINY PREMATURE CLOTHES, BLANKETS AND SADLY BURIAL OUTFITS TO U.K. SPECIAL BABY CARE UNITS, ALSO TO PARENTS WHO NEED THEIR SUPPORT. IN 2008 ALONE THE CHARITY SUPPLIED 80,739 ITEMS TO PARENTS EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH OVER 130 HOSPITALS, PLEASE HELP TO CONTINUE THIS WORK.THANK YOU.

The Bracken Trust is a Cancer Support Day Centre based in Mid Wales. The Charity provides information and support via Nurses, Cancer Counsellors and Complimentary Therapists to patients, carers and the bereaved who have been affected by Cancer.

Bradford Cancer Support is a local independent charity supporting those people touched by cancer in the Bradford and Airedale area. The aim is to help and support patients, carers, families and the bereaved by offering practical, social and emotional support.

Brake is a national road safety charity that works to stop death and injury on UK roads and to support people who have been bereaved or injured by a road crash. Brake runs Road Safety Week, a national awareness-raising initiative in schools, companies and communities, conducts research into the cause of crashes to inform the government and road users, runs an education service for employers to teach them about their responsibilities for safety when running fleets of vehicles and shouts loudly in the media about the importance of road safety to influence drivers to take more care.

It is a registered charity that aims to promote good health for all and to treat people with mental distress fairly, positively and with respect. It provides highly effective services including befriending, counselling for adults and children, day sevices and supported employment.

The Charity aims to alleviate the physical and mental distress of persons with cancer, of the partners and immediate family of persons with cancer and of persons recently bereaved through cancer. To be achieved through personal support, peer support, a range of complementary therapies, counselling, and an information service, etc.

It provides nursing care for the terminally ill who wish to be nursed at home, within a7 mile radius of Chipping Campden, Glos

The volunteers at Cancer Connections have experienced cancer themselves and help other people who have been diagnosed with cancer, are receiving treatment, had cancer in the past, are caring for someone with cancer, or been bereaved. The aim of Cancer Connections is to help people living with cancer, in South Tyneside, to return to normal life and enjoy again their family, work and leisure.

Facing cancer, whether as patient, carer or member of the family, is almost always a life-changing experience. CancerCare aims to work with people as they come to terms with and manage these changes, in particular by providing emotional, social, and psychological support, together with relevant information and practical support

Care for the Family strengthens family life and helps those who are hurting because of family difficulties. We help thousands of couples, parents and families across the UK to build strong relationships through events, networks, resources and family-building breaks. Special initiatives include the Bereaved Parents' Network, and support for single parent families.

It helps bereaved adults and children in Islington by offering free confidential counselling visits to anyone bereaved and runs a cold weather shelter for homeless people during the winter months, offering a warm venue, a hot meal and a bed for the night.

The Child Bereavement Charity supports families and educates professionals when a child dies and when a child is bereaved. It provides a support and information service for families and professionals and Buckinghamshire-based family bereavement support. www.childbereavement.org.uk Tel 01494 446648.

Christ Church welcomes visitors from the whole community, all Christian denominations and belongs to the people of Swindon. Raising funds and supporting many people and charities; Foodbank, Christian Aid, Tearfund, Willows Counselling Service, Swindon Youth for Christ, Bible Society, CPAS and CMS

The Compassionate Friends offers support and friendship to parents and families after the death of a son or daughter, at any age and from any cause. It also offers support, advice and information to other relatives, friends and professional carers who are helping the family.

It offers emotional support, practical help and information to the cancer community and carers throughout the north east. the organisation is volunteer led and most volunteers have first hand knowledge of cancer.

It provides counselling for individuals, couples and groups from all financial backgrounds. It provides quality training for new counsellors.

Crisis provides counselling and non time-limited support to adults, children and adolescents as needed. They have a team of highly trained professional personnel and provide placements to Counsellors undertaking Diplomas in counselling and contribute to research programmes being developed to reduce and eliminate social, political and environmental threats.

Providing support, information and practical help for all bereaved people, children included, over 50 years. Our 6,000 trained volunteers in 130 branches in England, Wales and NI understand grief. Please give generously - we rely on donations for our work. More at www.cruse.org.uk

The Cynthia Spencer Charitable Trust funds staff & equipment at the Hospice that are not funded by the NHS, currently funding nine members of staff including Nurses, a Family Worker, Housemothers and the Chaplain. It also administers funds for the county-wide Hospice@Home and Occupational Therapy teams & Hospice-based Lymphoedema service.

Daisy’s Dream supports children & families facing & following bereavement throughout Berkshire. Advice & support is available to over 500 children each year. • Phone advice/support • Email/online support • Direct support for children • Group events • Information/advice & support for professionals

DRCS is a professional counselling service for people in the Peak District National Park and some surrounding areas who are experiencing a variety of difficulties including bereavement, relationship problems, work or school-related problems, depression, stress, anxiety or low self-esteem.

Dockland Settlements has three community centres in the former Dockland area of East London. Each centre provides a wide range of activities for all age groups in their residential and business communities. These include a breakfast and after-school club, ESOL classes, mother and toddler groups, activities for senior citizens, tap and jazz dancing, and a wide variety of sports classes.

Eclipse is a service based in Staffordshire that seeks to support children, aged 5 to 18, through the grieving process in order to work through the many emotions that come with grief. Eclipse offers a free service to all children, because every child should be entitled to bereavement support.

Help us work towards the prevention of 3 seizure related deaths a day in the UK. Since we formed ten years ago, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) has been recognised by both government and clinicians, resulting in general agreement regarding ways to reduce the risks. We provide a specialist service; informing and educating, promoting and funding research into SUDEP and providing a specialist support service for those bereaved by SUDEP.

The aim of the Free Kicks Foundation is to provide football-related activities for ill, bereaved and deserving children, to give them a day to remember with their favourite football club.

CHUMS supports bereaved children and families in Bedfordshire following the death of someone special in their lives. The core of the work is carried out by a team of volunteers who come from all parts of the county who are all trained by the service in loss and grief and how best to support bereaved children and their families.

Forest Holme is a specialist palliative care unit, which forms part of the Dorset Cancer Centre at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Friends of Forest Holme support this 10 bedded unit through various fundraising initiatives to enhance the NHS service and improve the quality of care to our patients and their families.

The Good Grief Appeal helps people to overcome the grief and sorrow that can follow a bereavement by providing a sympathetic ear every evening of the year (no exceptions!) by Freephone Helplines: General Helpline 0800 435 455 Asian Languages Helpline 0800 9177 416 If you are struggling with a bereavement - it can help!!

The Harbour provides a free and professional counselling &amp; psychotherapy service for people living with a life-threatening illness, people close to them and those bereaved through a life-threatening illness.

Practical and emotional support for anyone affected by cancer.

We provide one to one counselling for children and adults who are struggling to come to terms with a bereavment or loss

Hold out a Hand is a South Wales-based charity set up in 2007 to provide free bereavement support. We are working to help every bereaved person to re-build a life full of opportunity and choice by helping them to find life beyond their grief. PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THE BEREAVED. Thank you.

Home-Start Wandsworth is a charity providing support to families with at least one child under five by volunteers whom we also recruit and train. Through weekly home visits they are able to respond to the problems of struggling families with both practical and emotional help.

It provides free specialised care for adult patients with incurable illnesses and support to their families from Ellesmere Port, Chester and Deeside. It has a multi-skilled care team who provide pain and symptom management and respite care so each patient can live life to the full within their capabilities.

The Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service offers counselling to children , adults and families who are experiencing loss. Counselling is done by trained volunteer counsellors who are professionally supervised. Call the JBCS on 0208457 9710 / e-mail jbcs@jvisit.org.uk<p> <p> Current Event: Community Fun Run, 23rd May 2010 at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. A course for all along with fun, sunshine and fresh air.<p>

It supports bereaved children and their families in and around Plymouth. The charity mainly offers support through a group programme which uses creative activities to encourage healthy grieving and happy memories. In the last year it has supported over 100 children who have had someone special to them die.

Jigsaw4u is a UK-based charity that has worked for 10 years to support children, young people, and their families, who have experienced loss and trauma. Jigsaw4u empowers young people to have a voice in decision making about their lives, about the development of Jigsaw4u and in the development of policy and practice locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

The Trust aims to help parents bereaved of a child in the Huddersfield and Mirfield areas. Our main focus is to assist parents in paying for headstones and funeral expenses, with other financial issues being addressed on an individual basis.

KHH provides palliative care for an area covering a community of about 140,000 people. It includes an in-patient unit, a day hospice, specialist nurses for home visits and a bereavement team. The contribution of 350 volunteers is vital. All the hospice services to patients are free of charge. Every donation is highly valued.

Many of KEMP Hospice's patients are suffering from cancer, but we offer help to patients, families and carers dealing with all forms of life-threatening illness and those with end of life care needs in the Wyre Forest and Tenbury Wells areas.

Kingston Bereavement Service is a charity providing support and counselling to adults, children and young people in Kingston upon Thames. We also give advice and raise awareness about bereavement in the community. Visit www.kingstonbereavementservice.org.uk or www.sayinggoodbye.org.uk

Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Whatever people are going through, they can contact Samaritans by telephone, email or even a face to face visit to our Kingston branch.

LATCH, the Welsh Children's Cancer Charity, is a voluntary organisation set up to support the special requirements of the children's oncology centre at the Children's Hospital for Wales, to help affected families and promote research in childhood cancer.

Life After Loss is a charity set up to help those who have experienced the devastating loss of a baby, either during pregnancy or early in life. The charity started out in 2006 as an online support forum, and since then has grown from strength to strength, reaching out to bereaved parents in many different ways.

Liverpool Sunflowers aims to support families living with and affected by cancer. It provides practical advice and support including Benefits Advice, Information Library, Relaxation Therapies, and a friendly ear. Most visitors find the informal nature of the centre a welcome break from treatment and being at home.

The Lord Wandsworth Foundation gives a stable, caring and inspirational education at Lord Wandsworth College to children who have lost the support of a parent through death, divorce or separation. Since the Foundation was established in 1912 over 2500 children have been supported - please help us to support the Foundationers of the future.

Is a women’s counselling centre, we support disadvantaged women who are in emotional distress, by providing them with free group or individual counselling. The aim is to rebuild self-esteem&; self-confidence, equip women with the emotional strength to confront the difficulties they may face.

The Melissa Nathan Foundation: Supporting families in crisis The Melissa Nathan Foundation was founded to provide financial support for families that are in crisis. Melissa would frequently do this herself without ever telling anyone about it. The stories of her kindness and generosity in helping families in their moments of need have only emerged since she died. Our wish is to continue to help families in Melissa's name. The families might be struggling to cope with illness, incapacity, poverty or other domestic crisis. Whatever the cause, we want to help deal with the consequences. Please help us by making a donation here

Mosaic is a Dorset wide charity offering a pathway of support for bereaved children, young people and their families.

MuchLoved enable bereaved family and friends to come together and create beautiful and fitting website memorials to their loved ones. MuchLoved partners with many leading bereavement organisations and exists to help people remember and to work through their grief positively.

The Mulberry Centre provides support to those affected by cancer - patients, their family and carers and those bereaved by cancer - offering access to a library, complementary therapies, counselling, support groups, relaxation therapies, welfare rights and money advice, all free of charge, within a warm and welcoming environment.

Nelson's Journey works with children and young people up to the age of 18 years who live in Norfolk and have experienced the death of a significant person in their life e.g. mother, father, brother or sister.

It is a local charity offering free services to people in the Borough of Enfield whose lives have been affected by cancer as well as their carers and families. We are not a bedded unit, but provides a range of services aimed to help the person and their family.

Chrysalis provides information, counselling and support to families who have a child diagnosed with a life threatening, life limiting or terminal illness. Chrysalis also provides bereavement counselling to families who sadly lose a baby, child or young adult through illness, accident or stillbirth.

OCF connects donors with local causes that make a real difference in Oxfordshire. Providing grants and support to local voluntary groups, helping them focus on building better, stronger communitites within the county.

The Parachute Regiment Charity supports serving and retired members of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, and assists the wounded and the families of those who are killed in service.

We are the mainstream communal organisation for Orthodox Judaism in the UK.

The Railway Benefit Fund, formerly known as the Railway Benevolent Institution, was founded in 1858 to provide support to railway staff (active and retired) and their dependents when they needed help through illness, injury, bereavement, or adversity.

Raphael offers counselling to individuals and couples whose relationships and feelings cause them distress at home, at work or socially. Raphael has 30 years of unbroken service, during which our counsellors have been available to help those in need and provide a haven in their difficult times.

Richmond's Hope offfers support to children between the ages of 4 and 16 who have been bereaved and live in Edinburgh or the Lothians.

RoadPeace is the national charity for road crash victims. We provide practical and emotional support to victims through a helpline, befriender network, and information guides on the legal procedures that follow a crash. RoadPeace also campaigns for justice for victims and road danger reduction policies that champion the needs of vulnerable road users. RoadPeace won the Guardian Charity Award winners in 2008. Help us make the world a safer and fairer place.

The Rock Clinic Association - providing affordable counselling and psychotherapy to the community for over 20 years! We are a registered charity supporting local people throughout Brighton, Hove and Sussex, UK. http://www.justgiving.com/rockclinic http://www.rockclinic.org.uk

The Rotary Club of Leicester de Montfort carries out a range of money-raising activities and hands-on projects to help many local, national and international charities. It aims, among other things, to raise over &#163;10000 through walking the Hadrian`s Wall path in April.

It is the UK's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served and are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependents.

The fund renders aid, financial or otherwise to members of The Royal Irish Regiment, their widows and/or dependants in times of need.

The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen provides care, compassion and support to working, retired and disabled fishermen and their families. Deep-sea fishing is dangerous and unpredictable. Hardship and tragedy are facts of everyday life in the UK’s fishing

The Rupert Charity exists to support the widows, children and mothers of officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and to recognise their sacrifice in the cause of peace in Northern Ireland.

S.P.R.I.N.G was set up to provide support to parents and relatives who have experienced the death of a baby during pregnancy, at, or just after birth. This includes miscarriage, stillbirth and termination for foetal abnormality. S.P.R.I.N.G. supports in a number of ways, through counselling, befriending and during a subsequent pregnancy.

Saint Catherine's Hospice is an adult hospice, based in Scarborough, serving the Scarborough, Ryedale and East Yorkshire areas- with specialist palliative care for adults, with progressive, incurable diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, & heart failure.

The branch offers emotional support by telephone, email and text, as well as providing the opportunity for face-to-face support for those who visit the centre. Telephone, email and text lines are open 24 hours a day throughout the year and doors of the centre are open to caller every day of the year between the hours of 9am and 9pm

Samaritans offers 24 hour emotional support to anyone going through a crisis who needs to talk in confidence without being judged. Yeovil Samaritans speaks to people in Somerset and Dorset, and takes calls from all over the UK. It has 90 volunteers who answer over 13,000 calls and reply to over 1,200 emails a year. We raise funds to run the branch and keep the service going.

A Military Charity; whose aim is to relieve members or their dependants who are in need by virtue of financial hardship or sickness. To Perpetuate the memory of those members who have died in the service of their country. To foster esprit de corps, comradeship and welfare.

We help fund small grass root charities and inidividuals - usually with turnovers of under a million - focusing primarily in the UK.

SCIM provides counselling for women and families who have suffered miscarriage. Our counselling service provides a safe and supportive relationship where issues can be sensitively explored following loss, before trying again and in pregnancy following miscarriage. Our counsellors are trained to Diploma level and have personal experience of miscarriage.

Oxfordshire's amazing charity, SeeSaw supports children who are struggling either before or after a close family bereavement by offering them dedicated face to face support, group support and providing information, advice, training and resources to their families and concerned professionals.

Family Support Trust helps serving & retired Strathclyde Fire & Rescue employees & their families, in times of need. Assistance includes financial grants, information & referral and a Spanish respite facility, for rest, following illness, injury or bereavement. www.sfr-familysupport.org.uk

HELP FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES OF SICK CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL OR WHO HAVE SADLY BEEN BEREAVED

SPOWE is a registered charity working in Uganda and the UK which improves the livelihoods of orphans, widows and elderly bereaved through HIV/AIDS. SPOWE is about providing access. Access to Education, Training, Skills, Relief and Income. A grassroots approach, empowering towards self-reliance.

Our aim is to give access to bereavement support to anyone in the St Albans City and District . We offer a Help Line (01727 841841), a home visiting service, bereavement counselling, and social support groups. There is a specialised section for bereaved children, young people and their families and we also offer advice, resources and support for school and health professionals.

The Hospice provides a range of specialist palliative services for patients approaching the end of their lives. These include inpatient care, domicilary care, clinics, day therapy and educational initiatives. It supports people in N Lancashire, S Cumbria and western parts of N Yorkshire

St Luke's Hospice exists to give Sheffield people who have life-limiting illnesses the best possible quality of life. Its skilled and dedicated staff care for 1,400 adult patients each year - all ages and from all walks of life. Every year St Luke's needs to raise around £4.5 million to stay open.

Our aims for this service are to co-ordinate and provide a bereavement service for children, young people and their families who have experienced the death of a significant person, pre-bereavement support is also offered. The Service caters for all children &amp; young people, aged 0 -19 years resident within Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust.

Sue's Place is unique, it is a special place where children and their families can go and find support and guidance following a bereavement or loss of someone close.

SAMM Merseyside supports and advises all those affected by a Homicide by offering an all inclusive service that gives emotional, as well as practical support, enabling them to rebuild their lives whilst giving long help. This is via a free 24 Hour Helpline, home visits, liasing with the various agencies, monthly meetings, Courts and a quartley newsletter .

We exist to meet the needs and break the isolation of those bereaved by the suicide of a close relative or friend. Many of those helping have, themselves, been bereaved by suicide.

Swansea Mosque is a religious facility for Muslims in South Wales. Seeking to be in accordance with the Holy Quran and the sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him), it strives to be a key focal point of the community with expanding services and provisions to truly enrich society.

We seek to promote the care of cancer patients, their families and friends by providing emotional support through : Support groups in west and central Scotland. Support groups for young adults -conTAK Counselling services Complementary Therapies Practical information, fact sheets and booklets

The Counselling Partnership (NSCCP) supports individuals through times of crisis by ofering low cost counselling. The Charity has professional volunteers working in some of the most deprived areas of Surrey.

The George Hardwick Foundation supports the thousands of carers. Its patron is Jennifer Hardwick, widow of the footballing legend George Hardwick, who used the Stockton Carers' Centre during George's illness.

A united voice of bereaved families who have lost loved ones to knife gun and youth crime. We provide support, education, raise awareness and fight for justice for victims. Together we can break the cycle of violence, get weapons off the streets, and create communities where our young people can be safe and can flourish

Treetops Hospice – Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire’s local hospice. <p> Treetops Hospice provides specialist palliative care for adults with life limiting illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, end stage heart and respiratory diseases, etc. <p> We provide ‘hospice at home’ care, enabling people to die at home, their preferred place. There is also a Day Care Centre which provides respite for patients and their carers. We offer complimentary therapy as well as art therapy, and there is a Carer’s support Group and a Family Bereavement Support service. <p> Truly every pound that is raised counts!

Walsall Hospice aims to provide the best possible quality of life for its patients, their families and carers by meeting their physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs.

The WAY Foundation provides a self-help social and support network for men and women widowed up to the age of 50, and their children. The main aim is to help those widowed young to rebuild their lives by helping one another.

Westmeria Counselling Services was established in August 2003 to help people in crisis, or just in need of support, with a particular emphasis on those suffering from depression. It is our aim to reverse the trend of reliance on anti-depressants.

Winston's Wish supports children following the expected or sudden death of their mother, father, brother or sister. Recognised as a leading authority on the provision of child bereavement services across the UK, it is also the largest provider of bereavement services for children in Europe.