CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE

Day by Day Helpline: 0844 477 9400
Administration: 020 8939 9530
Fax: 02089 401 671
Promotes the well-being of bereaved people and enables anyone bereaved to understand their grief and cope with their loss.  Also offers counselling and support, information, advice, education and training services.
Cruse Bereavement Care, P.O. Box 800, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1RG
email: helpline@cruse.org.uk
www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk

YOUNG PERSON'S HELPLINE

Tel: 0808 808 1677 (weekdays 9.30am-5pm)
Tel/Fax: 0161 236 9116
Minicom: 0161 839 3915
YIP, Cruse Bereavement Care, Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JT
email: info@rd4u.org.uk
www.rd4uk.org.uk

THE WAY FOUNDATION (Widowed and Young)

Tel: 0870 011 3450

A self-help group for widows and widowers up to the age of 50 offering support for those bereaved young.

The WAY Foundation, PO Box 6767, Brackley NN13 6YW
email: info@wayfoundation.org.uk
www.wayfoundation.org.uk

SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE  (SOBS)

Helpline: 0844 561 6855 (9am-9pm daily)
Admin tel: 0114 272 5955

A self-help voluntary organisation in which many of those helping have been bereaved by suicide.

SOBS, Volserve House, 14-18 West Bar Green, Sheffield S1 2DA
email: sobs.admin@care4free.net
www.uk-sobs.org.uk

PAPYRUS

Tel/Fax: 08000 68 41 41

Meeting the needs of families affected by suicidal behaviour or completed suicide.

Rossendale General Hospital, Union Road, Rawtenstall, Lancashire BB4 6NE
email: info@papyrus-uk.org
www.papyrus-uk.org

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS

Helpline: 08451 232 304 (everyday 10am-4pm & 6.30pm-10.30pm)
Admin: 08451 203 785

A self-help organisation for bereaved parents.  Produces a range of leaflets and a quarterly newsletter.

Compassionate Friends, 53 North Street, Bristol BS3 1EN
email: helpline@tcf.org.uk
www.tcf.org.uk

CHILD DEATH HELPLINE

Tel: 0800 282 986 (weekdays 10am-1pm & 7pm-10pm & Wed 1pm-4pm 365 days a year)

Telephone befriending and support for those affected by the death of a child of any age.

www.childdeathhelpline.org.uk

FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INFANT DEATHS

Helpline: 0870 787 0554
General enquiries: 0870 787 0885

Provides advice and counselling for the newly bereaved parents after sudden infant death (cot death).  Can offer details of local contacts, newsletter and information leaflets.

Artillery House, 11-19 Artillery Road, London SW1P 1RT
email: fsid@sids.org.uk
www.sids.org.uk/fsid/

SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)

Helpline 0207 436 5881 (weekdays 9.30am-5.30pm)
Admin: 0207 436 7940 (weekdays 10am-5pm)

Offers advice and long-term support to newly bereaved parents (from 22 weeks of pregnancy to 1 or 2 months after birth) through a network of local groups and contacts.  Also provides information, leaflets and a newsletter.

28 Portland Place, London W1B 1LY
email: helpline@uk-sands.org
www.uk-sands.org

SAMM (Support after Murder and Manslaughter)

Helpline: 0207 735 3838

Offers support and information to people bereaved by violent crime.  Information pack available.

Cranmer House, 39 Brixton Road, London SW9 6DZ
email: enquiries@samm.org.uk
www.samm.org.uk