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How to support a child bereaved by suicide

Sept 2025

To mark Suicide Prevention Month, our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish offer advice on how to support children following a death by suicide.

How to support your grieving child as they prepare to return to school

Aug 2025

Our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish offer some tips on supporting bereaved children at the start of the new school year…

Tips from Winston’s Wish: Coping with the summer holidays with a grieving child

Jul 2025

As the summer holidays approach, we share tips on navigating the long summer break as a widowed parent…

Supporting a grieving child on Father's Day

Jun 2025

Our friends at Winston’s Wish offer eight tips to help widowed parents support their bereaved child through Father’s Day…

Rainbow Review: Winston’s Wish activity for bereaved children

May 2025

Our friends at the child bereavement charity Winston’s Wish have shared a creative and comforting activity that carers can do with bereaved children to help them gently explore and express their emoti…

Spring craft activity: the Thankful Tree from Winston’s Wish

Apr 2025

Our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish have shared this spring craft activity to help bereaved families navigate the Easter holidays.

How to cope with Mother’s Day – advice from Winston’s Wish

Mar 2025

Ahead of Mother’s Day, our friends at Winston’s Wish offer some advice about supporting bereaved young people whose mum has died…

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 …

How to navigate a New Year after bereavement: Tips from Winston’s Wish

Jan 2025

Our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish share ways in which widowed parents can support children and young people to navigate their grief into the New Year and beyond.

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…

Tips from Winston’s Wish: Twelve things I wish I’d known about grief

Nov 2024

To mark Children’s Grief Awareness Week, our friends at the childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish share the truth behind the common myths about grief and reveal the 12 things it’s helpful to kn…

Make and Talk activity for Halloween

Oct 2024

As Halloween approaches, our friends at Winston’s Wish share a make and talk activity to help bereaved children face their fears…

Tips from Winston’s Wish: Telling a child someone has died by suicide

Sept 2024

To mark Suicide Awareness Month, our friends at Winston’s Wish share their tips about talking to children about death by suicide…

Back to school: Seven tips for supporting a grieving child as they move up to secondary school

Aug 2024

Our partners at Winston’s Wish share seven helpful tips on supporting a grieving child who’s moving from primary to secondary school…

WAY is the only national charity in the UK for people aged 50 or under when their partner died.

It’s a club that nobody wants to be eligible to join, but we are so glad that our members find us. We are a place for people who have experienced an untimely loss to understand and have compassion for those experiencing the same. Quite simply, to be able to say: “I know”.

Our service offers 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.

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