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When Bereavement Support Payments stop: Widowed mum left with £50 a month
Jan 2025
After her husband died, Sophie relied on Bereavement Support Payments to survive. Now payments have stopped, leaving the widowed mum struggling to make ends meet.
WAY Holidays: Looking back on 2024
Jan 2025
Throughout the year, the WAY Operations Team organises a number of weekend breaks across the country that all WAY members can attend. 2024 was no exception…
Hannah’s haircut in memory of Mum
Jan 2025
At just 11 years old, Hannah is proving that age is no barrier when it comes to making an impact.
Sophie’s first year as a young widowed Mum: Reflecting on loss, love and new traditions
Dec 2024
WAY member Sophie was 17 weeks pregnant when her husband Paul tragically died in a road traffic accident. Now, over a year on, Sophie reflects on how she’s creating new traditions for herself and her …
Coping with Christmas: Tips from WAY members
Dec 2024
Members of WAY share their tips on coping with Christmas when you’ve been widowed young…
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 on coping with Christmas as a widowed parent…
International Men’s Day: Building back better as a young widower
Nov 2024
To mark International Men’s Day, WAY member Paolo shares how he rebuilt his life and learned to become a better person after his wife died…
Gary’s story: Navigating life as a widowed dad
Nov 2024
To mark International Men’s Day, we talk to WAY Trustee Gary about his experiences as a widowed dad…
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…
Trustees’ Week: Celebrating WAY’s ten terrific Trustees
Nov 2024
To mark Trustees’ Week, we take the chance to say thank you to WAY’s Trustees
Josephine’s journey: Grief, love and music
Oct 2024
To mark their tenth wedding anniversary, WAY member and musician Josephine – who records under the name Sephine Llo – is releasing a new album in memory of her husband and fellow musician Robbie.
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 calls on the new Government to stand up for bereaved families
Jul 2024
The charity WAY Widowed and Young has written to the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall asking for her urgent support for bereaved families, whose needs have been overlooked in r…
Campaign to extend bereavement support payments: Sophie’s story
Jul 2024
When Sophie’s husband Paul died in 2023, she was 17 weeks pregnant. Her Bereavement Support Payments are due to stop just after her baby turns one. Here is Sophie’s story…
David’s story: running 400 miles for four charities
Jul 2024
Find out why widowed dad David is running 400 miles for four charities this year, including WAY Widowed and Young.
Five ways to manage grief in the summer holidays
Jul 2024
Our charity partners at the child bereavement charity Winston’s Wish have shared five useful tips on coping with the summer holidays when you’re caring for bereaved children.
Jul 2024
WAY is pleased to welcome two new members to the charity’s Board of Trustees, both of whom are young widowed fathers.
A window on grief: Craft activities for children
Jun 2024
Our charity partners at the child bereavement charity Winston’s Wish have shared this helpful craft activity to help bereaved children open up.
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.