Bereavement Support
We have created this page to help signpost you to resources and support that you may find useful on your journey and experience of grief and loss.
If you are in crisis or are struggling, please ring the Samaritans on 116 123 or text STEEL to 85258. Both services are active 24/7, 365 days a year.
Initial Steps
- Government Advice – What to do when someone dies: a step by step guide
- Government Advice – information on help with funeral costs
- Sheffield City Council – Registering a death
- Citizens Advice Bureau – What to do after a death: including information about claiming bereavement support benefits
- Sue Ryder – Practical considerations
- Dying Matters – resources, information and support to raise awareness of dying, death and bereavement.
Someone To Talk To
National
- Cruse Bereavement Care – national helpline offering emotional support. Mon-Fri 9.30-5pm. Open until 8pm on Tues, Weds, Thurs. 0808 808 1677
- Sue Ryder – Up to six free online sessions of bereavement counselling.
- Grief Chat – offers a helpline and professional bereavement counselling (n.b there may be a cost to these therapeutic services).
Local to Sheffield
- Listening Ear – telephone helpline providing support, advice and guidance to anyone over the age of 11 who is registered with a GP in Rotherham and is bereaved during the Covid-19 crisis. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. 0800 048 5224. To find out more about Listening Ear you can watch this video about accessing the helpline and this video about being a helpline professional.
- Sheffield Cruse – 1-1 bereavement support. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. T: 0114 408 1408 or E: [email protected]
- Here to Hear – A multi-lingual and multi-faith bereavement helpline 0114 395 2127
Bereavement Support Group
- TCF – Compassionate Friends: Supporting bereaved parents and their families. Currently accepting calls very day 10am – 4pm and 7pm – 10pm. 0345 123 2304, Support Groups in Dronfield, Chesterfield & North Anston
- Bereavement Support – St Marie’s Cathedral: 0114 272 2522 [email protected]
Support for those with additional needs or autism
- Mencap – easy read guides and resources for families and carers
- National Autistic Society – General advice on talking to people with autism about death and dying.
Targeted Resources
- Sands – Stillbirth and neonatal death charity
- Widowed and Young (WAY) – For those aged 50 or under when their partner died.
- Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS)– a self-help organisation for those who are bereaved as a result of suicide.
- Amparo – providing emotional and practical telephone support for anyone affected by suicide. 0330 088 9255 [email protected]
- Hope – support group for people who have suffered trauma through fire and road traffic collisions. Peer support group and support telephone line.
- St Luke’s bereavement service – for family members of those who have been under care of St Luke’s Hospice.