National Bereavement Resources Following Loss of a Child
National support is also available through many websites with various ways to support you at this difficult time.
Aching Arms is here to help and support you when you’ve experienced the heartbreak of losing your baby, during pregnancy, at birth or soon after.
Aching Arms – the charity bringing comfort after baby loss
Antenatal Results and Choices can give you impartial information and support to help you decide on your next steps following test and scan results.
Apart of Me is designed to help young people who have lost a parent or close relative, or have someone important in their life with a terminal illness. It is a game aimed at young people aged 11+. Our research shows that our core audience is 13-16 year olds. However, we know from feedback that adults and younger children, who play while accompanied by an adult, also find the game helpful and meaningful.
Apart of Me - Helping children, young people, and parents cope with loss and trauma.
Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. We support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying.
Child Death Helpline is operated by a dedicated team of volunteers who are all bereaved parents, it is available every day of the year.
CRADLE is a charity that provides emotional support to anyone affected by pregnancy loss.
Cruse Bereavement support offer support through their website, national helpline, live chat, group, zoom, telephone or one-to-one in person support.
Get support - Cruse Bereavement Support
DrugFAM - Established in 2006 by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips after losing one of her twin sons to suicide, DrugFAM is a UK registered charity that provides support to people bereaved by another person’s harmful use of alcohol, drugs, substances, or gambling including family, friends and colleagues.
Home - Addiction Family Support
Hope Again is the youth website of Cruse Bereavement Support. It has been created for young people, by young people. We offer support, advice and a type of signposting service, solely online to children and young people who have lost a loved one/s.
Lighthouses Therapy Services are a not-for-profit organisation who offer support for women, men and couples who have been through stillbirth, miscarriage, neonatal loss, SIDS, ectopic and molar pregnancy and compassionate induction/termination of pregnancy.
Lighthouses Therapy Services | Post Infant Loss Support Service
Mummy’s Star provides support to families where a mother/birthing person is diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or within 12 months of having a baby.
Mummy's Star | Charity | Cancer and Pregnancy
NHS support, this NHS webpage provides advice and guidance about support available.
Losing your partner or child in pregnancy - NHS
SANDs is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK, they offer a free national helpline and a bereavement support app for parents, families, carers and health professionals; GriefChat, where you can chat directly to a specially trained bereavement counsellor; a UK-wide network of support groups with trained befrienders; an online forum enabling bereaved families to connect with each other and a wide range of bereavement support resources available online and in print.
Sands | Saving babies' lives. Supporting bereaved families.
Saying Goodbye is the primary support division of The Mariposa Trust, a leading bereavement charity supporting anyone affected by baby loss, at any stage of pregnancy, at birth or in infancy, whether the loss be recent or historic. With website and Facebook support sites.
Saying Goodbye - support for miscarriage and baby and infant loss
Scotty’s Little Soldiers is a charity dedicated to supporting children and young people (0 to 25 years) who have experienced the death of a parent who served in the British Armed Forces.
Charity for Bereaved Military Children | Scotty's Little Soldiers
The Compassionate Friends is an organisation of bereaved parents offering support, understanding and friendship to others after the loss of a child, of any age, from any cause. They offer a national telephone helpline, staffed only by bereaved parents, who are available for support and information 365 days a year.
The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust has a range of information, we have a telephone support line (with a call back service), email support, discussion forums, virtual support groups and live chat through Skype. We also support in your first language and BSL.
The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust - Support For You And Your Loved Ones
The Lullaby Trust provides emotional support for bereaved families, promotes expert advice on safer baby sleep and raises awareness of sudden infant death (SIDS).
The Lullaby Trust - Safer sleep for babies, Support for families
The Miscarriage Association provides support and information to anyone affected by miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or molar pregnancy.
The Miscarriage Association:Pregnancy Loss Information & Support
Tommy’s exists to support, care for and champion people, no matter where they may be on their pregnancy journey.
Saving babies' lives | Tommy's | The pregnancy and baby charity
Together For Short Lives wants to help every child and family living with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition get the very best care and support they can so they can make the most of every moment together.
Together for Short Lives: Children's Charities - Children Hospices
The Twins Trust Bereavement Support Service exists to support all parents and carers of twins, triplets or more who have died whether it was during or after pregnancy.
Twins Trust | Bereavement Service
Winston’s Wish provides emotional and practical bereavement support to children and young people up to the age of 25, their families and those who care for them.