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Yarn with a purpose: Swan yarnbomb raises awareness of WAY
Aug 2024
Find out more about a swan-shaped yarnbomb that has landed in Ambleside to help spread joy and awareness of WAY.
Summer of Swans: Griffyn's Fourth Update
Aug 2024
Griffyn's Summer of Swans challenge is almost at the end, but there is still an opportunity to join in.
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…
Summer of Swans: Griffyn's 2nd Update
Aug 2024
Almost halfway through the challenge, WAY member and volunteer Griffyn shares his progress.
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…
Summer of Swans: Griffyn's First Update
Jul 2024
WAY member and volunteer, Griffyn, updates us on his first week of his 1000 origami swan challenge
Celebrating friendship on International Friendship Day
Jul 2024
To mark International Friendship Day, we are sharing stories of friendships formed through WAY’s peer support network.
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.
Jul 2024
WAY Ambassador Sophie met with Rev Richard Coles following a local event and managed to secure a signed copy of his book to give away to WAY members
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.
Finding friendship through WAY: Lisa and Lorraine’s story
Jul 2024
Two WAY members talk about the difference their friendship has made since they were both widowed in their 40s…
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…
All the threes: How virtual bingo launched a lifelong friendship
Jul 2024
Three WAY members tell the story of how their friendship blossomed through a game of virtual bingo…
WAY volunteer organises glass-blowing activity for young widowed people
Jun 2024
WAY volunteer organises glass-blowing activity to help other young widowed men and women heal…
Volunteers’ Week: Celebrating WAY’s volunteers
Jun 2024
WAY’s National Volunteer Manager Veronica shares a round up of this month’s Volunteers’ Week.
Pride Month: Invitation to LGBT Switchboard webinar
Jun 2024
Find out more about the organisation LGBT Switchboard at an event for WAY members and volunteers…
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.