Cruse Bereavement Care is the leading national charity for bereaved people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We offer support, advice and information to children, young people and adults when someone dies and work to enhance society’s care of bereaved people.

Website: Cruse Bereavement Care 

Family Lives - Coping with bereavement works around the clock, transforming the lives of families, supporting parents and making happier relationships, happier families and a stronger society.

Website: Family Lives - Coping with bereavement 

KEMP Hospice Bereavement Support provides bereavement support to children and adults in the Wyre Forest area.

Website: KEMP Hospice Bereavement Support 

Primrose Hospice’s Family Support Centre offers emotional support to adults, patients, carers and loved ones through the Family Support Team. Trained volunteers make up the Adult Family Support Team. The team is supervised at Primrose by Heather – our Head of Family Support. The volunteers see people in their own homes, at the Coppice Centre or via the telephone.

The Family Support Team offers an empathetic ear to support people on their journey through the different stages of a life-limiting illness.

Our service can work with individuals or support the family together. Our Family Support Service can support families through this extremely difficult time and we will try to ensure we provide a service which meets each family’s individual needs.

We also offer a range of bereavement support groups based either at Primrose Hospice or online.

Website: Primrose Hospice Adult Family Support

St. Richard's Hospice can offer bereavement support and is part of their family Support team. The support sessions often take place within the comfortable settings of the Snowdrop Centre in St Richards Hospice. The wide range of bereavement services offer bereaved adults and couples one to one counselling, group work and telephone support. Children, young people and family are given the opportunity to share their feelings and develop managing bereavement strategies individually, in a group setting or within their school.

St Richard’s Hospice offer advice on how to support and give information to children in a safe way when a member of the family is unwell or are experiencing a bereavement.

Children are given the opportunity to join a group where they meet with other children who are going through similar experiences, it can be very helpful to know that they are not the only ones facing such difficulties.

Website: St. Richard's Hospice 

The website below provides information and links to organisations and services which offer support and assistance across a range of needs from practical activities to emotional support.

Website: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Bereavement Resources

Child Bereavement UK supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement.

Website: Child Bereavement UK 

The Lullaby Trust is a charity that exists to keep babies safe and keep grieving families supported. We give families a safer start to life, and create a supportive space for anyone whose baby or infant has died suddenly or unexpectedly.

Website: The Lullaby Trust

Primrose Hospice offers support to children and young people aged 5-18, when a family member has a life-limiting illness or when someone special has died.

We can offer:

• one-to-one or family assessments
• help to ensure the family are more prepared for bereavement
• support when someone has died around healthy grieving and coping strategies either one-to-one, or as a family
• working alongside schools to support the child and their family
• group work, both with children and families, including face to face groups, activity days and virtual groups
• memory work to help keep a connection to the person who has died

Website: Primrose Hospice children and young people.

Sands is the UK’s leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity. Here to support everyone touched by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby.

Website: Sands - Saving babies' lives. Supporting bereaved families.

Tommy's is the leading charity stopping the heartbreak and devastation of baby loss and making pregnancy and birth safe for everyone. Supporting families through miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth.

Website: Saving babies' lives - Tommy's

Touchstones Child Bereavement Support is a charity that provide free one-to-one bereavement support and weekend experiences for children and young people in Hagley, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wythall. Additionally, Touchstones advises families and schools on how to support children and young people through bereavement, including pre-school children who are best supported by their own family.

Website: Touchstones Child Bereavement Support 

Winston's Wish is a national charity that provides support for bereaved children. They run drops-ins in Worcester, Evesham and Upton-upon-Severn as well offer a free helpline that providers support, information and guidance to all those caring or supporting a child or young person who has been bereaved.

Website: Winston's Wish