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Jan 2025
WAY Widowed and Young is marking LGBT+ History Month with a series of stories and activities reflecting on the histories and experiences of LGBTQIA+ members as they have navigated their bereavement.
Jan 2025
As we enter 2025, WAY has almost 200 formal volunteers who have stepped forward to help support the charity and our members in a variety of different ways.
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.
Jan 2025
January can be especially hard for grievers, with all the focus on new starts and a new year that we are acutely aware our loved one is not a part of.
Coping with Christmas: Rebecca’s story
Dec 2024
WAY member Rebecca, who set up the subgroup WAY WOCS for WAY members without children – shares how she copes with Christmas…
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…
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…
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…
“Life is far too short”: WAY members share how grief has changed their outlook
Sept 2024
We asked WAY’s social media followers how bereavement has changed their outlook on life…
Men’s Health Week: Helping men navigate bereavement
Jun 2024
To mark Men’s Health Week, we wanted to talk about men and bereavement, and how to help men navigate the challenges of losing their life partner at a young age…
Loneliness Awareness Week: the importance of looking after yourself in widowhood
Jun 2024
To mark this year’s Loneliness Awareness Week, WAY Ambassador Norman shares how his faith, WAY and singing have helped him to combat loneliness...
Men’s Health Week: David’s story
Jun 2024
To mark Men’s Health Week, WAY member David describes how he is looking after his own mental and physical wellbeing since his wife died…
May 2024
WAY member Ed has walked hundreds of miles and raised more than £10,000 for WAY since his wife died. With more fundraising challenges in store in 2024, Ed shares how walking and WAY have helped...
Apr 2024
On International Plant Day, two of our Members discuss how nature has helped in their grief and how they have been able to share this with other WAY Members through the Member's Groups.
Tips for a good night's sleep on World Sleep Day
Mar 2024
Ruth Lin has been a member of WAY for several years. When she was first widowed, she only got about four hours' sleep a night but now she enjoys up to seven hours of shut eye. She helps people with sl…
Jan 2024
Jodie joined WAY in summer 2022 and started volunteering as part of WAY’s Merseyside Area Contact Team in September 2023. She recently set up a mindful watercolour event for fellow WAY members to help…
Jan 2024
We asked: ‘What tip would you give to other parents about what helps your mental health as you navigate bereavement?' and we’ve collated just some of the amazing responses.
Emma's Story: Supporting Children
Nov 2023
WAY member and ex-primary school deputy headteacher Emma Marfleet shared her story during Children's Grief Awareness Week and how she is helping her children maintain an ongoing relationship with thei…
Tips from WAY members for Autumn
Oct 2023
Members shared practical advice about light timers, radio or podcasts to ease the feeling of loneliness, being easy on yourself, and how setting a project has helped them through the Autumn months wh…
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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.