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Children’s Grief Awareness Week: Sharing Emma’s story
Nov 2025
To mark Children’s Grief Awareness Week, we share the story of WAY member Emma, who is using her own experience to help support grieving children.
Finding hope after bereavement
Nov 2025
To mark Children’s Grief Awareness Week, our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish share some tips on finding hope again after bereavement…
Feb 2025
Ramadan Mubarak to all of those in the Muslim community and to our Muslim members. We know how difficult it can be to mark this Holy Month without your loved one.
Unleashing hope: Michelle’s story
Feb 2025
To mark National Love Your Pet Day, we share how WAY member Michelle followed her dream after she was widowed – setting up an award-winning dog grooming business…
Ways to cope with anniversaries, birthdays and special days when supporting a bereaved child
Feb 2025
With special dates like Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day coming up, our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish share some tips on supporting bereaved children through significant …
Finding light in the darkness: Nicola’s story
Dec 2024
WAY member Nicola lost her husband Dave to cancer six years ago, when she was 38. He was Christian and she is Jewish. She talks about navigating interfaith differences in life and in death – and as Ha…
Grief at Christmas: Common questions asked by parents and carers
Dec 2024
Our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish share some tips in coping with Christmas as a widowed parent…
Supporting a bereaved child through exam season
Apr 2024
This Stress Awareness Month, our friends and Full Circle Partners Winston’s Wish have shared their advice on how adults can support grieving children and young people through the exam season.
Making memories together on Father’s Day
Jun 2023
A group of 55 WAY members and children spent two days together in Derbyshire over the Father’s Day weekend making new memories and finding friendship, support and understanding.
May 2023
WAY Widowed and Young’s Membership and Finance Officer Tanya reports back on an action-packed weekend for WAY members in Wales…
Sunny skies for WAY’s Big Picnic weekend
May 2023
The sun came out for WAY’s Big Picnic weekend, enticing more than 400 WAY members, friends and family to roll out their picnic blankets at 38 picturesque picnic locations from North Wales to Norfolk a…
Landmark Opportunity: A weekend away
Mar 2023
Last month, some of our members had the fantastic opportunity to spend four days at a historic Landmark Trust property in Shropshire as part of the Trust’s 50 for Free initiative.
PGL Adventure: Making new memories with WAY
Feb 2023
Earlier this month, more than 60 WAY members and children headed to PGL Caythorpe Court near Grantham for a weekend of adventure including high ropes, zip wire, archery, climbing, buggy building, prob…
Nov 2022
WAY is all about peer support and extending kindness to other people who have lost a loved one. Ahead of World Kindness Day on 13 November, we talked to WAY volunteer Tracey, who won WAY's Mandy Burro…
May 2022
25 years of making a difference. Today marks the start of Volunteers week and we wanted to share a HUGE THANK YOU, for all you do, we really couldn't do it without you.
WAY is the only national charity in the UK for people aged 50 or under when their partner died.
It’s a peer-to-peer support group operating with a network of volunteers who have been bereaved at a young age themselves, so they understand exactly what other members are going through.