FIND A CAUSE // BEREAVEMENT

Every day in the UK, 111 children are bereaved of their mum or dad, and 21 babies, children and young people die, leaving families devastated by bereavement. The impact of bereavement on children, young people, parents and families cannot be underestimated.

At Child Bereavement UK our aim is for all families to have the support they need when a child grieves or when a child dies. Our Make A Difference Draw will raise vital funds to help make this vision a reality.

When you play, you’ll be helping to ensure that no one affected by child bereavement grieves alone. Thank you.

Cruse Bereavement Support help people through one of the most painful times in life - with bereavement support, information and campaigning.

We offer support through our website, National Helpline, live chat, group, zoom, telephone or one-to-one in person support. We want to make sure everyone grieving gets the help they need in a way that works for them. We have specially trained dedicated team of 4,000 bereavement volunteers.

We also campaign to ensure grieving people have their voice heard. We'll do whatever it take to make changes, from campaigning for better business standards to improving bereavement laws - we're determined to change how grieving people are treated.

Grief can be overwhelming

With Cruse you don't have to deal with it alone.

Edward’s Trust is a specialist holistic bereavement charity based in Birmingham, providing support for families in the West Midlands.

Family Holiday Charity helps families get time away together, often for the first time ever. We're here for children who have never seen the sea. For teenagers who can't remember when they last saw mum smile. For parents having to choose between a day out and a pair of school shoes. For young carers, grandparent carers. For families facing illness, isolation, or bereavment.

Holidays open up new possibilities. There's time enough to share a laugh, watch the tide come in, and make happier memories.

When frontline care proffessionals make a referal, we help each family choose the UK holiday they need. It could be a caravan on the coast, a woodland adventure, or a day out at a theme park. 

Whatever the weather, if it means time spent together, even a day's holiday helps build relationships, confidence, a stronger sense of community, and hope for the future. 

More than 2.2m families in the UK can't get away on holiday. By playing our lottery, you're creating the time and space for mums, dads, carers and children to make lasting memories that make a lifetime of difference for families facing really tough times.

The Family Holiday Charity - for holidays that make a lifetime of difference

Nelson's Journey provides specialist therapeutic support to children and young people aged 0 - 17 years inclusive, living in Norfolk, who have experienced the death of a significant person in their life e.g. parent, other family member or best friend. Support is delivered on both a 1:1 basis and in groups. Nelson’s Journey directly supports more than 600 children and young people each year

Our main aims are to increase the confidence and self-esteem of bereaved children and young people, reduce the sense of isolation and open up communication within families helping them to better support one another.

Funds raised from this charity lottery contribute to Nelson’s Journey being able to continue providing their support services to Norfolk’s bereaved children and young people.

Omega is a registered charity dedicated to reducing social isolation and loneliness.

We offer Chatterbox, a free telephone befriending service and Letterbox, a free penpal befriending service.

Although Omega was founded as a specialist end of life care charity in 2007, our work has gradually refocused over the years, to reflect the needs of our clients. We discovered that while not all of them are dealing with end of life issues, the one thing that unites them is a daily struggle with feelings of isolation and loneliness.

We now offer our services to anyone aged 18 or over, living in the UK.

Omega is run from a small head office in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, but our services are open to clients throughout the UK. Our work is made possible by an ever-growing team of generous and varied volunteers.

Your donations will help us provide counselling and support to low-income and at risk people from across the country. By preventing relationship breakdown or supporting people to separate healthily, we’ll be one step closer to stopping all the side effects that come along when relationships go wrong – like parental conflict, domestic abuse, debt, homelessness and addiction.

Thank you so much for your support, the funds raised will help us renovate & refurbish our property, a place that will make a positive difference to many families. Thank you from Team Reuben XXXX

Thank you for supporting Sands through our weekly Lottery.

You are making a huge difference to the lives of bereaved families in their darkest hours, helping to give them hope for the future.

For just £1 per week you’ll be in with the chance of winning up to £25,000! You will also be helping us continue our vital work to improve maternity safety through targeted research, campaigning for change and ensuring that the voices of bereaved parents are heard, so that we can learn lessons for the future.

Your support is invaluable and we couldn't do it without you. Thank you so much and wishing you the best of luck!

Founded in 1995 as Epilepsy Bereaved, today SUDEP Action is the only UK charity with specialist expertise in supporting and working alongside anyone bereaved by epilepsy.

The free support service is tailored - led by what the bereaved need and want. Services include ongoing emotional support, counselling, advocacy, information, advice, and involvement in research through The Epilepsy Death Register.

At least 21 people in the UK die each week from epilepsy, and nearly half of these are potentially avoidable with better risk awareness and access to services. Epilepsy deaths can be devastating and traumatic and can leave many unanswered questions.

SUDEP Action work to prevent epilepsy deaths and promote better awareness of epilepsy risks, information and services. Free award-winning safety tools and resources are provided to clinicians, people with epilepsy and their families. Including EpSMon, a free self-monitoring digital app for epilepsy patients, and the SUDEP & Seizure Safety Checklist, a clinical tool supporting epilepsy risk management and discussions. The charity also collaborates with UK and international research teams, focusing on finding the answers to help save lives.

The Lullaby Trust is a charity that saves babies’ lives and supports bereaved families. Around 4 babies a week still die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and we are committed to bringing that number down to zero.

Through educating parents on how they can reduce the risk of SIDS and investing over £12 million in research, we have played a key role in reducing the number of babies who die from SIDS by 80%, saving the lives of more than 20,000 babies.

Each year we train thousands of health professionals to support parents in sleeping their baby safely, and reach millions of families with our vital safer sleep advice. We campaign tirelessly to raise awareness of SIDS and ensure our life saving advice reaches all parents.

The Lullaby Trust supports bereaved families, through our helpline and befriending scheme. We work with local healthcare providers to deliver the Care of Next Infant Programme (CONI) which offers a lifeline to bereaved families expecting a new baby.

WAY is the only national charity in the UK for people aged 50 or under when their partner died. It’s a peer-to-peer support group operating with a network of volunteers who have been bereaved at a young age themselves, so they understand exactly what other members are going through.

WAY was founded in 1997 and now has more than 3,000 members across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. WAY aims to provide peer-to-peer emotional and practical support to young widowed people married or not, with or without children, whatever their sexual orientation – as they adjust to life after the death of their partner.

Every day more than 100 children are bereaved of a parent in the UK. This can be one of the most devastating and traumatic experiences a child will ever face. Grief can destroy a child’s future – with your support we can help make sure it doesn’t.

You will be helping families to express and share their grief, to continue to remember their loved one as memories fade and above all, to face the future with hope.

At Winston’s Wish we have an unshakeable belief that we can and must do better for bereaved children and young people now and in the future. But we can’t do this without support such as yours. If we do it together, the sky is the limit. Please join us on our journey and enter the Winston’s Wish Weekly Lottery today.