Road death bereavement helplines
Brake – The Road Safety Charity
Victim Helpline: 0808 8000 401
The Brake helpline supports anyone bereaved or seriously injured through a road crash, whether the crash happened recently or a long time ago. It is also for professionals who need information about how to help people affected by a crash. Support provided includes emotional support, practical and procedural advice, accessing specialist services like legal advice or counseling, advocacy and signposting to other appropriate agencies. Brake support literature is available on various topics, and includes bereavement guides, serious injury guides and specialist children’s literature.
RoadPeace
Helpline: 0800 160 1069 (10-4 M—F)www.roadpeace.org
National charity for bereaved and injured road traffic victims, which provides information and support through its helpline, literature, local groups, and contact with people who have suffered a similar experience.
Support after Murder and Manslaughter
Helpline: 0121 472 2912
Text: 07342 888 570
If you have lost someone dear to you through murder or manslaughter you are not alone. SAMMS offers a confidential telephone help line where you can talk to someone who has experienced the devastating effects of this most distressing crime.
Cruse Bereavement Care HelplineDay by Day Helpline: 0808 808 1677 (Mon-Fri 9.30am to 5pm)
Counselling, support, information and advice to enable anyone bereaved to understand their grief and cope with their loss.
Hope Again
Hope Again is Cruse Bereavement Care's website for young people. Cruse is a national charity that provides support, advice and information to children, young people and adults when someone close to them dies. We also work to enhance society’s care of bereaved people.
Way Widowed & Young
Info: 0300 201 0051
WAY offers support and friendship to young bereaved people, whatever their circumstances, however long ago their partner died. We help men and women up to the age of 50, parents and those without children.
Way Up
Way Up is an active, online self-help group aimed at providing mutual support to those who have been widowed primarily, but not exclusively, in their 50’s and 60’s. Based in the UK, our free to join members-only forum is an important aspect of our group and is a way to initiate friendships, to exchange views and to give and to receive care and support.
The Compassionate FriendsHelpline: 0345 123 2304www.tcf.org.uk Siblings
TCF is a charitable organisation of bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents dedicated to the support and care of other bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents who have suffered the death of a child/children.
Winston's WishHelpline: 08088 020 021 (8-8pm M-F).www.winstonswish.org.uk
Winston’s Wish supports children and young people to rebuild their life after a family bereavement, the Winston's Wish family line offers practical support and guidance to anyone concerned about a grieving child.
Child Bereavement UK
Support & information: 0800 02 888 40
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. Every year we train more than 9000 professionals, helping them to better understand and meet the needs of grieving families.
Grief Encounter
Tel: 0808 802 0111
When a child’s parent or significant loved one dies, their lives change forever. As well as the sadness they feel, they are often left confused and full of fear and anxiety. Grief Encounter helps families address difficult issues such as death and we help make sense of the hurt and confusion. Above all, we aim to help them find ways out of the abyss of grief. Grief Encounter offers a flexible and accessible bereavement service which aims to professionally care and respond to the needs of each service user. We aim to support every family with an individual approach.
Victim Support HelplineHelpline: 0808 168 9111
Offers free and confidential help to victims of crime, their family, friends and anyone else affected, giving information, emotional support and practical help.