Grief Encounter is a leading UK bereavement charity, offering free, professional support to bereaved children, young people and their families. Without intervention, statistics show that bereaved young people can go on to suffer emotional, behavioral, social and academic issues. They exist to mitigate against the negative outcomes of grief.

Grief Encounter's qualified clinical team offer face-face and online therapeutic services, including grieftalk, the free, national helpline, open weekdays, 9am 9pm. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, grieftalk has been available to all those suffering grief, with immediate listening services, advice and support available.

Find out more about some of the families supported by Grief Encounter

Their unique Family Programme, offered remotely and in person for up to two years, includes tailored care plans to the individual that will include 1:1 counselling, e-counselling, online workshops, Covid secure family days, creative therapies and more. Grief Encounter also provide free advice and best practice bereavement training to educational institutions and corporate organisations, following the death of a student or an employee, whilst Grief Encounter's specialist trauma team work with the public and government to support humanitarian disasters such as terrorist attacks, and tragedies such as the Grenfell fire.

With no government funding available to them, Grief Encounter rely solely on private donations to fund our £1.3 million running costs, supporting over 6500 individuals annually. Thank you to all at Sarasin and Partners for your support of Grief Encounter.

If you have experienced bereavement, call, chat or e-mail the free, national grieftalk helpline for instant support and listening services, open 9am 9pm weekdays, on 0808 802 0111 / grieftalk@griefencounter.org.uk / www.griefencounter.org.uk