What to do when someone dies – National Bereavement Service leaflet
...these practicalities, making this more challenging and stressful. To help and support you the National Bereavement Service has produced this leaflet to summarise the tasks into four simple steps; notification,...
NCL Support After Suicide Service – Rethink
Rethink Mental Illness Support After Suicide Service supports people who have been bereaved by suicide who live, work or study in the 5 North Central London boroughs of Camden, Islington,...
Losing a Friend
...true. It can be difficult to know what’s the right thing to do. Many families have said that they were moved by friends writing notes and letters to them, sharing...
Leicestershire Police Service
The Police are often the first responders to incidents of sudden death. The Leicestershire Police force work to refer people who are bereaved, to help ensure they are offered support...
New opt-out process announced – June 24th 2022
...the country in which specialist bereavement support services are offered. The current funding commitment for these services ends in 2024 and so a renewed commitment to continue funding for existing...
Our Patrons
...all over the world to improve suicide prevention services: he developed the first active postvention service in the United Kingdom and Ireland. His “Derry Model” is widely recognised as the...
Ataloss.org
...incredibly rich database of local and national support services available across the UK, including suicide bereavement support. As well as support services they also have information on available resources whether...
Victim Support (Suffolk and North East Essex)
The Victim Support/Bereaved by Suicide Service in Suffolk and North East Essex operates across the county, delivering support to those who have been bereaved or affected by suicide. Their support...
Become a member
...can share directly with your service users. Have access to the SASP team, who can guide you through tricky areas like securing funding, evaluating your service, and working with other...
Siblings
...others. This allows you to express your feelings and discuss memories, alternatively you could write your feelings down in a diary or a letter to your loved one. Doing things...
R;pple
R;pple addresses the lack of intervention and instead provides an immediate, vibrant display on a user’s device once they have been flagged as searching for online content relating to self-harm...
The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF)
...what’s best to say and possibly not to say, to how to connect with their local suicide bereavement support services. Funeral Directors work with people bereaved everyday and can be...
Impacted By Suicide – months
If you are here because you have been bereaved by suicide, we are sorry for your loss. We know that this is a difficult and overwhelming time. With the help...
Impacted By Suicide – days
If you are here because you have been bereaved by suicide, we are sorry for your loss. We know that this is a difficult and overwhelming time. With the help...
Coroners and Coroner’s offices
Who is a coroner? A coroner is an independent judicial officer. This means that they are like a judge, but they sit in a Coroner’s Court as opposed to a criminal...
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest are part of the Safe Connections Collaborative offering the Grief in Pieces support for suicide loss service. The service provides a suicide...
Beverley talks to us about what to expect at a Coroner’s court
Join us today with Beverley Radcliffe, the director of the Coroners’ Court Support Service (CCSS) who will be talking us through the inquest process and people involved including the coroner....
Mind in Haringey
Mind in Haringey provides services to their local community to ensure that they have access to the services and support such as counselling, bereavement counselling, advocacy & wellbeing services and...
LifeCraft
LifeCraft provides suicide bereavement support services to families and friends that have lost a loved one in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough areas....
Talking to Students
...students that may be applicable to older, and vice versa. However, support services will always be happy to work with you, signposting you to other support if theirs is not...
Diversity and Inclusivity
...key to inclusive change. Our principles apply to the treatment of people we work with, who support us, who come into contact with the SASP online and in person, and...
I think people were scared to talk about my friend’s suicide
...thought it was best not to mention my friend. It’s as if she is best forgotten – and she did die a long time ago. But I haven’t forgotten her.’...
Ellie’s Angels
...other self help tools. In April 2022, working with local healthcare services we launched better u – a brand new App developed by young people, for young people to access...
Facing the future
Facing the Future is a service delivered by Samaritans offering free online peer support groups to people bereaved by suicide. The groups provide a safe environment for people who are...
Every Life Matters
...promote Suicide Safer Communities and provide suicide bereavement support across Cumbria. They have a support directory for more information about the support and services available across Cumbria, Nationally and Online....
Talking to children
...to blame. Ideally, a parent would be the best person to tell the child what has happened – if this is not possible, ask someone they trust to explain what...
Grief Encounters
Grief Encounters provide free, professional and specialist bereavement support services. Their mission is to give every child and young person access to the best possible support following the death of...
Become a Member
...by suicide – share information, resources and best practice – and create a collaborative community that works together to deliver but also improve the support available. Our members are primarily...
Suicide & Co
...conversations around suicide-related grief, connect individuals bereaved through sharing information and resources, and help support services with counselling grants through fundraising. They also signpost to support services across the UK....
Facing the future
...since the first few days of your loss. In whichever case, often suicide bereavement support services can support you in varying ways and are happy to discuss with you what...