The following organisations may be of some comfort to you over the coming days, weeks and months. They are not linked to the health board directly, but we have been informed that their services may be able to assist you at this difficult time. Please do look after yourselves and reach out to the professionals listed if you feel that you are struggling to cope with your grief and loss.
On behalf of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, we extend our deepest sympathies to you on the death of someone close to you and hope that you find these organisations helpful.
If you have any questions or would like to provide us with any comments or feedback on our booklets or services, please feel free to email ctm.bereavementsupport@wales.nhs.uk.
Age UK Cymru
A national organisation who help with feelings of loneliness and grief in older people
Asian Family Counselling Service
At a Loss
Providing local and national help and support
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Advice on choosing a therapist through a list of accredited organisations.
Bereavement Support Network
Brake
Offers support to people bereaved and seriously injured by road traffic accidents.
Breathe Counselling Project
Provides specialists counselling and stepped bereavement support to people who have experienced a traumatic bereavement and/or complicated grief, through suicide or as a result of Covid and the additional challenges of the pandemic.
Child Bereavement UK
Information and support line.
Compassionate Friends
Bereaved parents offering support to others following the loss of a child at any age
Compassionate Cymru
Helping people access and offer information, care and support in a compassionate way within their communities.
Coroner’s Office
Support and information following a sudden/unexpected death
Cruse Bereavement Care
Offering support, advice to adults, children and young people when someone dies.
DPJ Foundation
Provides bereavement support in agriculture, including support for those bereaved suddenly and by suicide.
Hope Again (Cruse)
Supports young people who have recently lost someone.
Llamau
Aims to provide a multi-layered response to needs related to bereavement and loss in the wider sense.
LGBTQ+ Helpline
Support for anyone who has lost someone close to them
Macmillan
For free, confidential advice from their cancer specialists you can:
Marie Curie Bereavement Support
Offers emotional help as well as handle the practical side of losing someone close to you.
Mind Cymru
Provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem.
Morgan’s Wings
Providing support to families following miscarriage.
Samaritans
Samaritans can be contacted at any time, day or night, and someone will be available to listen and provide confidential and non-judgmental emotional support.
SANDS
SANDS provides support for bereaved parents and their families when their baby dies at or soon after birth.
SOBS
If you have been bereaved or affected by suicide and you would like to talk with one of their volunteers about your experience, you can get in touch.
Welsh Widows
A group of people who have lost their loved ones through a variety of different circumstances, offering a listening ear via website or in person, in a safe environment.
Widowed and Young (WAY)
Organisation that offers a peer-to-peer support network for anyone who's lost a partner before their 51st birthday – married or not, with or without children, inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, race and religion.
Winston’s Wish
Providing emotional and practical bereavement support to children, young people (up to 25) and those who care for them
2wish
Supporting sudden deaths in children and young adults.
Grief Support Guide
There is an additional Grief Support Guide available that has been designed to help people find support that meets their individual needs. It provides information on the variety of bereavement support that is available in the UK, from self-help resources and helplines to peer support groups and grief counselling. The Guide also includes details of support for specific groups of bereaved people, such as widow(er)s, children, cultural and faith groups and people bereaved by particular types of death.
Click here to download the Guide, which you are welcome to print and distribute for yourself or someone who might need it.
The Guide is also available in Bengali, Chinese, French, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Welsh. Click here for translations.