Life Matters coalition calls for better bereavement support
November 2017
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Fundraising success at AFC Wimbledon
November 2017
Huge thanks to AFC Wimbledon and all your amazing fans for showing such fantastic support for WAY Widowed & Young as... Read more
WAY member in Guardian Weekend magazine
November 2017
WAY member talks to Guardian Weekend about dating after being widowed. Read her story here... Read more
WAY member in Christmas issue of Good Housekeeping
October 2017
Congratulations to WAY member Pherenice Worsey-Buck for a wonderful article in the December issue of Good Housekeeping, ... Read more
August 2017
More than 80 WAY members and children have just come back from an action-packed (and sunny) weekend at Comrie Croft in S... Read more
August 2017
Three WAY members talk about dating as a young widow on Woman's Hour... Hear the interview about 15 mins in to the 29 A... Read more
August 2017
WAY member talks about coping with grief in New magazine... Read the article... Read more
August 2017
WAY member's inspiring story featured in October issue of Runner's World. Read the full article here... Read more
WAY members on BBC Radio 5 Live
August 2017
WAY members Diane & Jayne were interviewed for a BBC film clip for BBC Radio 5 Live and were then interviewed on Fiv... Read more
July 2017
WAY members took to the water earlier this month to raise funds for WAY Widowed & Young in the annual Dragon Boat ra... Read more
July 2017
WAY member Andrew Ware from Cambridgeshire is getting set to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise funds for W... Read more
June 2017
Two groups of WAY members and their children got together this Father’s Day to support each other through a difficult we... Read more
WAY Big Picnics celebrate 20 years of support
May 2017
WAY’s 2017 Big Picnic weekend was the biggest ever – with 37 picnics happening up and down the country, from Scotland to... Read more
WAY founder on 20 years of WAY
May 2017
In the run up to our 20th anniversary Big Picnic weekend, WAY's founder Caroline Sarll writes movingly in the Western Ma... Read more
WAY's Big Birthday Picnic Weekend
April 2017
We'd love to invite our friends and supporters to come along to one of WAY's Big Picnic 20th Anniversary events in May. ... Read more
Campaign update: WAY calling for manifesto pledges
April 2017
Over the past few months, we’ve been busy campaigning against cuts to bereavement support payments. WAY members have bee... Read more
April 2017
WAY members were featured on BBC News at Ten as part of a feature about bereavement and mental health. Watch the clip h... Read more
WAY's Chair on Victoria Derbyshire
April 2017
WAY's Chairman Georgia Elms was interviewed alongside Life as a Widower blogger Ben Brooks-Dutton & Lord Polak about... Read more
April 2017
WAY member speaks out against cuts to bereavement support in the Independent. Read the full article here... Read more
WAY campaign featured in Guardian
April 2017
WAY members speak out against cuts to bereavement support in a hard-hitting article in the Guardian. Read the full arti... Read more
April 2017
WAY's campaign against cuts to bereavement payments for widowed families highlighted in Grazia. Read the full article h... Read more
April 2017
New research reveals true financial and emotional impact on surviving parents and children 75% of newly widowed p... Read more
March 2017
On 15 March, we heard the devastating news that MPs voted by 292 votes to 236 to accept the changes to Bereavement Suppo... Read more
February 2017
Earlier this month, a group of more than 100 WAY members and children attended the Kingswood Activity Weekend for the fo... Read more
WAY pays tribute to Helen Bailey
February 2017
Members of WAY Widowed and Young have been truly devastated by the news about Helen Bailey, who has given other young wi... Read more
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