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Speaking out about cancer: Sandeep’s story
Dec 2025
WAY member Sandeep took part in Channel 4’s Stand Up to Cancer campaign this month to honour her late husband’s memory…
WAY Trustee: My family’s story is the human cost behind 'too little, too late'
Nov 2025
On the day findings from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry are published, WAY Trustee Emma Charlesworth’s story illustrates the devastating human cost behind decisions made ‘too little, too late’…
International Brain Tumour Awareness Week: WAY member Debbie shares her story
Oct 2025
To mark International Brain Tumour Awareness Week, WAY member Debbie talks about how she has navigated the last four years since her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour…
Congratulations to our 2025 Helen Bailey Award winner
Oct 2025
Meet the winner of our 2025 award for the best WAY blogger about widowed life, as voted by our members…
Closing the Blank Space for bereaved mothers
Jun 2025
On Tuesday 17 June, Parliament will hear a proposed change led by MP Jen Craft to an outdated law that caused immense pain to bereaved mother Orlanda Bryars – and many others like her.
Feb 2025
Two bereaved parents are taking their fight for equal bereavement benefits for cohabiting couples all the way to the European Court of Human Rights. Here’s their story…
Bridget Jones as a young widow: A WAY member’s review of Mad About the Boy
Feb 2025
To mark the launch of the new Bridget Jones movie that shows Bridget as a young widow, we asked Scottish WAY member Alison to preview it for us…
Reflections on love, loss and happily ever after
Feb 2025
Ahead of the launch of the new Bridget Jones movie this Valentine’s Day eve, WAY Ambassador Emma Charlesworth shares her thoughts on love, loss, judgement – and ‘living happily ever after’ – five year…
Seven swans a-swimming: WAY’s festive yarnbomb wings its way to Chester
Dec 2024
Creative WAY members have been weaving their yarnbombing magic once again – bringing Christmas cheer to Chester with seven handcrafted swans a-swimming…
WAY’s Volunteer Manager on Living with Dying podcast
Sept 2024
WAY’s National Volunteer Manager talks about the value of peer support on the Living with Dying podcast
Book competition: Your chance to win actress Jill Halfpenny’s memoir
Sept 2024
Find out how you can win a copy of actress Jill Halfpenny’s book about navigating grief
Championing change: Cathy’s story
Aug 2024
Cathy Brokenshire has surprised herself since her husband – the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP – died in October 2021 at the age of 53. A lifelong non-smoker, his lung cancer diagnosis came as a huge sho…
Nicky’s story: Finding Chapter 2
Jul 2024
WAY member Nicky Wake explains how joining WAY Widowed and Young inspired her to set up a dating agency for widows and widowers called Chapter 2. Now she’s raising funds for WAY through her company an…
Tracking down lost assets: How WAY member Lucy is helping young widowed people in their search
Apr 2024
On Thursday, 18 April, WAY member and financial advisor Lucy Logan is due to appear in an ITV documentary called Claim Your Cash: Britain’s Hidden Fortune alongside fellow member Clare, talking about …
Urgent: Deadline for retrospective bereavement benefits
Jan 2024
Deadline for cohabiting parents to claim full retrospective bereavement benefits closing soon - find details...
Sarah’s story – facing her first Christmas after her husband died
Dec 2023
This will be Sarah’s first Christmas and New Year without Glynn, who died on 3 March 2023. This time last year, Glynn was in and out of hospital before being discharged on New Year’s Eve: “It was such…
Finding friendship: Orlanda and Rachel’s story
Aug 2023
A chance encounter through WAY’s Instagram platform helped friendship to flourish between WAY Ambassador Orlanda and fellow WAY member Rachel, who were both widowed while pregnant.
May 2023
WAY Widowed and Young member Carol explains why she’s decided to cycle 100 miles through the streets of London and Essex to raise funds for our charity.
May 2023
Earlier this year, a film crew from the Smiley Movement spent a few hours with 60 WAY Widowed and Young members and their children at one of our family adventure weekends at PGL Caythorpe near Grantha…
Apr 2023
Stephanie recently spent the day with 50 WAY members and children attending a PGL weekend near Grantham. Between zipping down the zipwire and sharpening her archery skills, she took the time to share …
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.