ADAPT supports parents and families of premature and poorly babies whilst on the neonatal units and when the babies go home for as long as support is needed

Ayrshire Cancer Support has operated in Ayrshire since 1982 providing emotional support and practical help for cancer patients and their families, our aim is to ensure that help is readily available for everyone who needs it. We are an Ayrshire charity and all money we raise is used in Ayrshire.

The charity Bereavement and Loss Looking Onwards (Balloons) provides support to children, young people and their families in Exeter, East and Mid-Devon following the death, or before an expected death, of a parent, significant carer or sibling.

Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide

A cancer diagnosis can come as an enormous shock to patients, their families and carers. They can feel anxious, fearful and often alone. Beechwood aims to provide psychological and emotional support through; one to one time, a range of complementary therapies, group sessions, a Family Therapist and Bereavement Counselling.

BONNIE BABIES MAKES AND SENDS TINY PREMATURE CLOTHES, BLANKETS AND SADLY BURIAL OUTFITS TO U.K. SPECIAL BABY CARE UNITS, ALSO TO PARENTS WHO NEED THEIR SUPPORT. IN 2008 ALONE THE CHARITY SUPPLIED 80,739 ITEMS TO PARENTS EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH OVER 130 HOSPITALS, PLEASE HELP TO CONTINUE THIS WORK.THANK YOU.

Bradford Cancer Support is a local independent charity supporting those people touched by cancer in the Bradford and Airedale area. The aim is to help and support patients, carers, families and the bereaved by offering practical, social and emotional support.

Brake is a national road safety charity that works to stop death and injury on UK roads and to support people who have been bereaved or injured by a road crash. Brake runs Road Safety Week, a national awareness-raising initiative in schools, companies and communities, conducts research into the cause of crashes to inform the government and road users, runs an education service for employers to teach them about their responsibilities for safety when running fleets of vehicles and shouts loudly in the media about the importance of road safety to influence drivers to take more care.

It is a registered charity that aims to promote good health for all and to treat people with mental distress fairly, positively and with respect. It provides highly effective services including befriending, counselling for adults and children, day sevices and supported employment.

The Charity aims to alleviate the physical and mental distress of persons with cancer, of the partners and immediate family of persons with cancer and of persons recently bereaved through cancer. To be achieved through personal support, peer support, a range of complementary therapies, counselling, and an information service, etc.

It provides nursing care for the terminally ill who wish to be nursed at home, within a7 mile radius of Chipping Campden, Glos

The volunteers at Cancer Connections have experienced cancer themselves and help other people who have been diagnosed with cancer, are receiving treatment, had cancer in the past, are caring for someone with cancer, or been bereaved. The aim of Cancer Connections is to help people living with cancer, in South Tyneside, to return to normal life and enjoy again their family, work and leisure.

Facing cancer, whether as patient, carer or member of the family, is almost always a life-changing experience. CancerCare aims to work with people as they come to terms with and manage these changes, in particular by providing emotional, social, and psychological support, together with relevant information and practical support

Care for the Family strengthens family life and helps those who are hurting because of family difficulties. We help thousands of couples, parents and families across the UK to build strong relationships through events, networks, resources and family-building breaks. Special initiatives include the Bereaved Parents' Network, and support for single parent families.

The Catholic Children's Rescue Society provides social care and support services to vulnerable children, young people and families, regardless of race or religion, and including those with disability. CCRS provide support to those in need in Manchester and Greater Manchester in accordance with its Catholic ethos and values.

The Child Bereavement Charity (CBC) is a national charity founded in 1994 to help the many thousands of families every year who suffer the pain of their child's death, and also to help children whose parent or sibling is dying or has died. By listening to both children and parents, CBC strives to improve the care offered by professionals to grieving families both in the immediate crisis and during the many months following the death of someone important in their lives. We do this primarily by offering training and support to professionals, producing resources for grieving children and families, and by establishing support networks amongst families in the community and professionals in healthcare. For more information please visit www.childbereavement.org.uk.

Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.

The Compassionate Friends offers support and friendship to parents and families after the death of a son or daughter, at any age and from any cause. It also offers support, advice and information to other relatives, friends and professional carers who are helping the family.

It offers emotional support, practical help and information to the cancer community and carers throughout the north east. the organisation is volunteer led and most volunteers have first hand knowledge of cancer.

Crisis provides counselling and non time-limited support to adults, children and adolescents as needed. They have a team of highly trained professional personnel and provide placements to Counsellors undertaking Diplomas in counselling and contribute to research programmes being developed to reduce and eliminate social, political and environmental threats.

The loss of a loved one, a parent or a child can be devastating. Cruse provides emotional support, information and practical help for people struggling to cope with bereavement. With 130 branches across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 5,500 trained volunteers supporting bereaved people, Cruse is the largest and the only organisation providing support to anyone bereaved by death - whoever they are, whatever their age, however or whenever their loved ones died.This year Cruse celebrates its Golden Jubilee. Founded in 1959, it has given support to bereaved people for 50 years - and will continue to be there. We are working hard to promote the work of Cruse and raise funds. Please give generously as we rely on donations to continue our work. You can also support some of our amazing volunteers online here - you’ll see who they are and what they’re doing through the Raise Money link below. Another way you can support Cruse is through our training courses and workshops. Bereavement is a universal experience yet it is frequently overlooked in the working environment and elsewhere. Though grief is a normal experience, unresolved it can affect concentration, ability to work effectively, mental health, relationships and general well being. Our courses - with 50 years of experience behind them - raise awareness in bereavement care and give people skills to support those suffering bereavement. There’s a special website for our jubilee year at www.griefreliefappeal.org.uk

to support the City of London charities/connected charities and schools ; to assist specific deserving students in their education; to support relevant, smaller charities in which Liverymen are actively involved and which they support; to support smaller charities where the Trustees are able to establish an ongoing relationship

The Friends Of Cynthia Spencer Hospice is a registered charity and was formed in 1990 by a few individuals; all of whom had come into contact with the Hospice when their respective husbands, wives and close family members had been patients. Since our formation we have gone from strength to strength and do a tremendous amount of fund-raising ourselves. The three main aims of the charity are: * To raise funds to help with the provision of items which are not available via the N.H.S and to buy those much needed extras for our patients. * To give support to the medical staff and patients in any way we can. * To promote awareness in the local community. The charity’s costs are minimal and therefore the majority of the funds raised are spent on patient care.

Daisy's Dream supports bereaved children and their families throughout Berkshire and the surrounding areas. Each year the organisation supports over 500 children cope with the death of a parent, brother, sister or other close relative. The service is tailored to meet the needs of individual children. There is a range of services which include telephone advice and support, direct work with children in their home or at school and events including weekend events which give families the opportunity to meet with others in similar situations.

Dockland Settlements has three community centres in the former Dockland area of East London. Each centre provides a wide range of activities for all age groups in their residential and business communities. These include a breakfast and after-school club, ESOL classes, mother and toddler groups, activities for senior citizens, tap and jazz dancing, and a wide variety of sports classes.

Help us work towards the prevention of 3 seizure related deaths a day in the UK. Since we formed ten years ago, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) has been recognised by both government and clinicians, resulting in general agreement regarding ways to reduce the risks. We provide a specialist service; informing and educating, promoting and funding research into SUDEP and providing a specialist support service for those bereaved by SUDEP.

Family Friends is a charity within Windsor & Maidenhead. It works with families with young children who are having difficulties coping with day-to-day life & specific issues. It provides volunteer support & individual and group support to children (0-13 years) & parenting support.

The aim of the Free Kicks Foundation is to provide football-related activities for ill, bereaved and deserving children, to give them a day to remember with their favourite football club.

CHUMS supports bereaved children and families in Bedfordshire following the death of someone special in their lives. The core of the work is carried out by a team of volunteers who come from all parts of the county who are all trained by the service in loss and grief and how best to support bereaved children and their families.

Forest Holme is a specialist palliative care unit, which forms part of the Dorset Cancer Centre at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Friends of Forest Holme support this 10 bedded unit through various fundraising initiatives to enhance the NHS service and improve the quality of care to our patients and their families.

It provides practical care and emotional support for people with life-limiting conditions and their families. Support is also available for adults and children who have been bereaved. All services are provided free of charge to people in South West Lincolnshire.

The Good Grief Appeal helps people to overcome the grief and sorrow that can follow a bereavement by providing a sympathetic ear every evening of the year (no exceptions!) by Freephone Helplines: General Helpline 0800 435 455 Asian Languages Helpline 0800 9177 416 If you are struggling with a bereavement - it can help!!

Grandparents' Association was launched in 1987 by a group of grandparents whose grandchildren had been put into care, adopted from care or were not allowed any contact with them. We provide: helpline support , volunteering, welfare benefits advice, support groups, lawyers lists, publications, membership, and signposting.

The Harbour provides a free and professional counselling & psychotherapy service for people living with a life-threatening illness, people close to them and those bereaved through a life-threatening illness.

Practical and emotional support for anyone affected by cancer.

FREE * CONFIDENTIAL * PROFESSIONAL Counselling Service in Perth, UK for anyone who is in need of emotional support

Home-Start Wandsworth is a charity providing support to families with at least one child under five by volunteers whom we also recruit and train. Through weekly home visits they are able to respond to the problems of struggling families with both practical and emotional help.

It provides free specialised care for adult patients with incurable illnesses and support to their families from Ellesmere Port, Chester and Deeside. It has a multi-skilled care team who provide pain and symptom management and respite care so each patient can live life to the full within their capabilities.

It supports bereaved children and their families in and around Plymouth. The charity mainly offers support through a group programme which uses creative activities to encourage healthy grieving and happy memories. In the last year it has supported over 100 children who have had someone special to them die.

Jigsaw4u is a UK-based charity that has worked for 10 years to support children, young people, and their families, who have experienced loss and trauma. Jigsaw4u empowers young people to have a voice in decision making about their lives, about the development of Jigsaw4u and in the development of policy and practice locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

The Trust aims to help parents bereaved of a child in the Huddersfield and Mirfield areas. Our main focus is to assist parents in paying for headstones and funeral expenses, with other financial issues being addressed on an individual basis.

KHH provides palliative care for an area covering a community of about 140,000 people. It includes an in-patient unit, a day hospice, specialist nurses for home visits and a bereavement team. The contribution of 350 volunteers is vital. All the hospice services to patients are free of charge. Every donation is highly valued.

The aim of KEMP Hospice is to enhance the quality of life of our patients their carers and families living in Wyre Forest, Tenbury Wells and surrounding areas. Many patients are suffering from cancer, but we offer help to patients, families and carers dealing with all forms of life-threatening illness and those with end of life care needs.

A service that is available to all over the age of 18 years, regardless of gender religious, philisophical belief or ethnic origin. An opportunity is given to work towards living in a more complete and satisfying way. It is hoped that people will find restoration, reduced confusion and a return to making decisions; also an ability to look to the future in an attitude of hope.

The kernos centre provides counselling to people who have psychological and mental health problems who cannot receive help through statutory services and do not have the means to pay for private treatment. We enable vulnerable members of the community to work with their problems so that they can participate fully in society.

Kingston Bereavement Service is a charity providing support and counselling to adults, children and young people in Kingston upon Thames. We also give advice and raise awareness about bereavement in the community. Visit www.kingstonbereavementservice.org.uk or www.sayinggoodbye.org.uk

Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Whatever people are going through, they can contact Samaritans by telephone, email or even a face to face visit to our Kingston branch.

LATCH, the Welsh Children's Cancer Charity, is a voluntary organisation set up to support the special requirements of the children's oncology centre at the Children's Hospital for Wales, to help affected families and promote research in childhood cancer.

Life After Loss is a charity set up to help those who have experienced the devastating loss of a baby, either during pregnancy or early in life. The charity started out in 2006 as an online support forum, and since then has grown from strength to strength, reaching out to bereaved parents in many different ways.

Liverpool Sunflowers aims to support families living with and affected by cancer. It provides practical advice and support including Benefits Advice, Information Library, Relaxation Therapies, and a friendly ear. Most visitors find the informal nature of the centre a welcome break from treatment and being at home.

The Lord Wandsworth Foundation gives a stable, caring and inspirational education at Lord Wandsworth College to children who have lost the support of a parent through death, divorce or separation. Since the Foundation was established in 1912 over 2500 children have been supported - please help us to support the Foundationers of the future.

The Melissa Nathan Foundation: Supporting families in crisis The Melissa Nathan Foundation was founded to provide financial support for families that are in crisis. Melissa would frequently do this herself without ever telling anyone about it. The stories of her kindness and generosity in helping families in their moments of need have only emerged since she died. Our wish is to continue to help families in Melissa's name. The families might be struggling to cope with illness, incapacity, poverty or other domestic crisis. Whatever the cause, we want to help deal with the consequences. Please help us by making a donation here

Mosaic is a Dorset wide charity offering a pathway of support for bereaved children, young people and their families.

MuchLoved enable bereaved family and friends to come together and create beautiful and fitting website memorials to their loved ones. MuchLoved partners with many leading bereavement organisations and exists to help people remember and to work through their grief positively.

The Mulberry Centre provides support to those affected by cancer - patients, their family and carers and those bereaved by cancer - offering access to a library, complementary therapies, counselling, support groups, relaxation therapies, welfare rights and money advice, all free of charge, within a warm and welcoming environment.

Established in 1992, the National Victims' Association (NVA) provides a comprehensive advocacy, advice, counselling and support service to families bereaved through murder or manslaughter, and is the UK's largest and longest established Charity specialising in this field of work. NVA has developed a range of unique respite and support projects and has provided its expertise to the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Metropolitan Police and many other statutory agencies. In its 17 year history, it has received no core funding from any Government and would not exist without the extraordinary unpaid work of its volunteers and voluntary contributions. Please visit www.victimsfirst.co.uk to read more. NVA is a Registered Charity Reg. No 1040883.

Nelson's Journey works with children and young people up to the age of 18 years who live in Norfolk and have experienced the death of a significant person in their life e.g. mother, father, brother or sister.

It is a local charity offering free services to people in the Borough of Enfield whose lives have been affected by cancer as well as their carers and families. We are not a bedded unit, but provides a range of services aimed to help the person and their family.

The Railway Benefit Fund, formerly known as the Railway Benevolent Institution, was founded in 1858 to provide support to railway staff (active and retired) and their dependents when they needed help through illness, injury, bereavement, or adversity.

Richmond's Hope offfers support to children between the ages of 4 and 16 who have been bereaved and live in Edinburgh or the Lothians.

RoadPeace is the national charity for road crash victims. We provide practical and emotional support to victims through a helpline, befriender network, and information guides on the legal procedures that follow a crash. RoadPeace also campaigns for justice for victims and road danger reduction policies that champion the needs of vulnerable road users. RoadPeace won the Guardian Charity Award winners in 2008. Help us make the world a safer and fairer place.

It is the UK's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served and are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependents.

The fund renders aid, financial or otherwise to members of The Royal Irish Regiment, their widows and/or dependants in times of need.

The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen provides care, compassion and support to working, retired and disabled fishermen and their families. Deep-sea fishing is dangerous and unpredictable. Hardship and tragedy are facts of everyday life in the UK’s fishing

S.P.R.I.N.G was set up to provide support to parents and relatives who have experienced the death of a baby during pregnancy, at, or just after birth. This includes miscarriage, stillbirth and termination for foetal abnormality. S.P.R.I.N.G. supports in a number of ways, through counselling, befriending and during a subsequent pregnancy.

Saint Catherine's Hospice is an adult hospice, based in Scarborough, serving the Scarborough, Ryedale and East Yorkshire areas- with specialist palliative care for adults, with progressive, incurable diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, & heart failure.

The branch offers emotional support by telephone, email and text, as well as providing the opportunity for face-to-face support for those who visit the centre. Telephone, email and text lines are open 24 hours a day throughout the year and doors of the centre are open to caller every day of the year between the hours of 9am and 9pm

Samaritans offers confidential emotional support to anyone who is going through a crisis or thinking of taking their own life. The branch provides a telephone service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is open for visitors by appointment from 9.30am to 8.00pm.

Samaritans offers 24 hour emotional support to anyone going through a crisis who needs to talk in confidence without being judged. Yeovil Samaritans speaks to people in Somerset and Dorset, and takes calls from all over the UK. It has 90 volunteers who answer over 13,000 calls and reply to over 1,200 emails a year. We raise funds to run the branch and keep the service going.

A Military Charity; whose aim is to relieve members or their dependants who are in need by virtue of financial hardship or sickness. To Perpetuate the memory of those members who have died in the service of their country. To foster esprit de corps, comradeship and welfare.

SCIM provides counselling for women and families who have suffered miscarriage. Our counselling service provides a safe and supportive relationship where issues can be sensitively explored following loss, before trying again and in pregnancy following miscarriage. Our counsellors are trained to Diploma level and have personal experience of miscarriage.

SeeSaw provides grief support for young people in Oxfordshire, especially when a member of their family is dying or has died. Through tailored, individual support and advice, information and training to the adults around them, SeeSaw helps bereaved youngsters face the future with hope.

Our aim is to give access to bereavement support to anyone in the St Albans City and District . We offer a Help Line (01727 841841), a home visiting service, bereavement counselling, and social support groups. There is a specialised section for bereaved children, young people and their families and we also offer advice, resources and support for school and health professionals.

The Hospice provides a range of specialist palliative services for patients approaching the end of their lives. These include inpatient care, domicilary care, clinics, day therapy and educational initiatives. It supports people in N Lancashire, S Cumbria and western parts of N Yorkshire

St Luke's is Sheffield's only hospice, offering specialist end of life care free of charge to people across the whole of Sheffield. St Luke's Hospice cared for more than 1,400 patients last year, providing care for the whole community from Stocksbridge to Swallownest, from Dore to Darnall. St Luke's cares for people in three main ways - the in-patient unit with its 30 beds, the Therapies and Rehabilitation Centre, which looks after the needs of our day patients, and our team of 11 community nurses, caring for people in their own homes. Every year St Luke's relies on the generosity of the people of Sheffield to help raise more than £4.5 million to keep the hospice open.

St Marks is a delightful country Church at the beginning of a major refurbishment to include disabled access and replacement fleche .

Our aims for this service are to co-ordinate and provide a bereavement service for children, young people and their families who have experienced the death of a significant person, pre-bereavement support is also offered. The Service caters for all children & young people, aged 0 -19 years resident within Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust.

SAMM Merseyside supports and advises all those affected by a Homicide by offering an all inclusive service that gives emotional, as well as practical support, enabling them to rebuild their lives whilst giving long help. This is via a free 24 Hour Helpline, home visits, liasing with the various agencies, monthly meetings, Courts and a quartley newsletter .

We exist to meet the needs and break the isolation of those bereaved by the suicide of a close relative or friend. Many of those helping have, themselves, been bereaved by suicide.

Swansea Mosque is a religious facility for Muslims in South Wales. Seeking to be in accordance with the Holy Quran and the sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him), it strives to be a key focal point of the community with expanding services and provisions to truly enrich society.

We seek to promote the care of cancer patients, their families and friends by providing emotional support through : Support groups in west and central Scotland. Support groups for young adults -conTAK. Counselling services. Complementary Therapies, including aromatherapy, reflexology, head massage, reiki, hypnotherapy and chiropody. Practical information, fact sheets and booklets.

The George Hardwick Foundation supports the thousands of carers. Its patron is Jennifer Hardwick, widow of the footballing legend George Hardwick, who used the Stockton Carers' Centre during George's illness.

A united voice of bereaved families who have lost loved ones to knife gun and youth crime. We provide support, education, raise awareness and fight for justice for victims. Together we can break the cycle of violence, get weapons off the streets, and create communities where our young people can be safe and can flourish

Treetops Hospice provides palliative care services for adults with life limiting illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, heart conditions and cancer. The hospice supports areas of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. <p> We need your help to build a New Day Care Centre. <p> Over the last four years demand for our services has more than doubled. To continue the excellent services we provide we need more space. The Treetops Hospice Ripple Appeal is a £1million appeal to raise funds for a much needed New Day Care Centre at Treetops. We are on our last £300,000 so truly every pound counts.

Walsall Hospice aims to provide the best possible quality of life for its patients, their families and carers by meeting their physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs.

The WAY Foundation provides a self-help social and support network for men and women widowed up to the age of 50, and their children. The main aim is to help those widowed young to rebuild their lives by helping one another.

Westmeria Counselling Services was established in August 2003 to help people in crisis, or just in need of support, with a particular emphasis on those suffering from depression. It is our aim to reverse the trend of reliance on anti-depressants.

Winston's Wish supports children following the expected or sudden death of their mother, father, brother or sister. Recognised as a leading authority on the provision of child bereavement services across the UK, it is also the largest provider of bereavement services for children in Europe.