Bereavement support

Below are organisations that offer support to young people in a bereavement. These are links to national resources but you can also have a look in our section named 'Support in my area' to find local services near you.

Please get in touch if there is anything that you'd like to talk through with us here at riprap. Find local support in your area here.

Links updated 01/02/21

Hope again is a website set up by Cruse Bereavement Care and bereaved children and young people. Young people can post messages, poems and stories, and share experiences and feelings. UK.

Help 2 Make Sense is provided by Winston’s Wish - a charity that supports bereaved children and young people. It offers a toolkit to help young people make sense of their grief, including tips on coping and the use of memory boxes, memory stones and memory books. UK.

Grief encounter is a UK charity helping bereaved children and teenagers deal with the loss a parent or a sibling. Their website is packed with resources including blogs and memory boards and children/teenagers can talk to trusted adults at ‘grief encounter’ through a helpline or various ways of e-counselling. Grief encounter also offers events like “Good grief” groups, family days and Residential Camps. They also sell various bereavement toolkits, e.g. workbook, journal, grief relief kit, Bad Time Rhymes. UK

Marie Curie - Coping with grief as a teenager. This section has been written especially for teenagers who have experienced the death of someone close. It aims to help young people better understand their own grief at an already difficult time, and find someone to talk to if they can’t cope. UK

Child Bereavement UK has an area particularly for teenagers and coping with their grief. It looks at your special needs and has information on resources such as books and videos that might be helpful. There is also advice from a teenager whose father died when she was 15 years old. UK.

Young Minds is a UK organisation focusing on young people's mental health. Their website contains a section called "Grief and loss" and offer information and advice on dealing with loss. It includes video clips of young people sharing their experiences.