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How we use cookies

We use cookies to enable visitors to navigate the site and use features to make donations, use our Live Chat, and buy merchandise. We also use cookies to track how visitors use our website to enable us to provide more enhanced personal features and improve the site. Cookies are also used with online registration forms when individuals register an interest in areas of our work.

What types of cookies do we use?

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These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as making donations or buying merchandise. Without these cookies, we cannot provide some of the basic functionalities of our website.

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These cookies collect information about how visitors use our websites, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they don’t. This helps us to understand and improve the site so it is easy to use and includes helpful content. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors, so we can’t identify you individually.

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These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make as you browse the site. For instance, your login details. They provide more enhanced and personal features. The information collected is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites once you leave our site.

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February 2024

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What is grief?

Watch our short animated film which explains how people grieve, the feelings and challenges you might experience, and what can help.
Thomas

Thomas, aged nine, took part in Jog on January to raise funds in memory of his father, who died when Thomas was five months old.
Could you be a Child Bereavement UK Trustee?

We have two vacancies on our Board for members with expertise in finance and fundraising.
North Downs Challenge

Guildford | 10km, 25km and 50km options

What is grief?

Watch our short animated film which explains how people grieve, the feelings and challenges you might experience, and what can help.
Thomas

Thomas, aged nine, took part in Jog on January to raise funds in memory of his father, who died when Thomas was five months old.
North Downs Challenge

Guildford | 10km, 25km and 50km options
Kent Downs Challenge

Maidstone | 10km, 25km and 50km options
Y Not Festival

Pikehall | Derbyshire | 1-4 August
South West Coast Challenge

Exmoor | 10km, 25km and 50km options
London Summer Walk

London | 10km, 25km and 50km options
Thames Bridges Trek

London | 10km or 25km options
South Coast Challenge

Eastbourne | 25km, 43km, 57km, and 100km options
Claire

Claire shares what she’s gained from volunteering at the Day to Remember events in Glasgow.

Supporting bereaved children and young people

Children and young people grieve just as much as adults but they can show it in different ways. Find out how you can help them and more about child grieving.
Children's understanding of death at different ages

Guidance on children's understanding of death at different ages and stages of development.
Grieving for a child of any age

The agony of losing a child of any age is unparalleled. There is no age or point in time that makes it any easier. No parent expects to face the death of their child and no grandparent expects to lose their grandchild.
When a grandparent dies

The death of a grandparent is often a child or young person’s first encounter with the death of someone important. Parents have a great deal to manage when their own parent or carer dies. There is the grief associated with their own loss, but also the reactions and responses of their children to the death of a grandparent.
Child Bereavement UK training

Child Bereavement UK designs and delivers training for professionals in health and social care, education, the emergency services and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.
Contact us

Contact details for our Helpline, departments and services.
When your baby dies

When a baby lives only a short time or dies before birth due to miscarriage, stillbirth or a painful decision to end the pregnancy, people may assume that the loss is not important. This is simply not the case.
Explaining death and dying to children

Guidance for teachers and parents on talking to children about death and dying,
For adults bereaved as children

How being bereaved as a child can affect your life as an adult and where you can find support.
UK death & bereavement statistics

A parent of children under 18 dies every 20 minutes in the UK; around 26,900 a year.