Your donations all go to support the charities with the incredible work they do.

Child Bereavement UK supports families and educates professionals both when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, and when a child is facing bereavement. Every year we train more than 10,000 professionals, helping them to better understand and meet the needs of grieving families.

Our vision is for all families to have the support they need to rebuild their lives, when a child grieves or when a child dies.

​Our mission is to ensure the accessibility of high-quality child bereavement support and information to all families and professionals by increasing our reach and plugging the gaps that exist in bereavement support and training across the country and embedding standards in the sector.

We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour.

SUPPORT: We provide confidential support and advice to young people struggling with thoughts of suicide, and anyone worried about a young person through our helpline, HOPELINEUK.

EQUIP: We engage communities and volunteers in suicide prevention projects and deliver training programmes to individuals and groups. This includes equipping local councils, healthcare professionals and school staff with suicide prevention skills.
​Child Bereavement UK
In the UK, when a baby or child dies, or a child is bereaved, many of those affected are unable to access good quality support which meets their individual needs. Child Bereavement UK believes all families should have the support they need to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. Our aim is to make sure they do.
 
The death of a child or parent means life will never be the same again and high-quality support, both for children and their families, can be a lifeline in helping rebuild their lives. The charity helps bereaved children, young people and families find the support they need, wherever they are in their journey and for as long as they need it.
 
  • ​Each year, around 6000 families are bereaved by suicide
  • A parent of children under 18 dies every 22 minutes in the UK; around 23,600 a year. This equates to around 111 children being bereaved of a parent every day
  • 10,061 babies, children and young people (under the age of 25) died in the UK in 2016 – that’s 28 every day
​Child Bereavement UK’s ambition is to increase bereavement support services and training so all families in the UK can have access to the support they need to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.
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​"Dealing with the death of a child, or – for a child – the death of a parent, brother or sister is an event that is so profoundly shocking, so beyond the ordinary in its crashing finality and irreversibility, that it can overwhelm every fibre of the bereaved. In short, it is probably the worst thing that can happen to anyone…..

And yet amid all this misery, CBUK brings warmth, comfort, a guiding hand, a way through, even colour and joyfulness, and a renewed opportunity for love as a family re-knits itself after tragedy.”

- HRH The Duke of Cambridge, Royal Patron

How your donation can make a difference
 £25 enables us to answer a call from a father unsure how to tell his 6 year old daughter that her mummy is dying
 
£60 provides a couple with a support session after their teenage son has died by suicide
 
£100 enables us to train a volunteer to help in our children’s support groups
 
£130 helps us train a police officer or paramedic to offer support after a sudden death
 
£300 enables us to run a group session for parents to share emotions and experiences in a supportive environment, after the death of their baby or child
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What We Know
Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling.

Our Vision
Our vision is for a society which speaks openly about suicide and has the resources to help young people who may have suicidal thoughts.

Our Mission
We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour.
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​Our Beliefs and Values:
  • PREVENTION: Many young suicides are preventable
  • PASSION: Those who are touched personally by a young suicide have a unique contribution to make to our work
  • HOPE: No young person should have to suffer alone with thoughts or feelings of hopelessness and nobody should have to go through the heartbreak of losing a young person to suicide
  • LEARNING: There are always lessons to be learned from listening to young people at risk of suicide, those who give them support and those who have lost a young person to suicide.

Our Work
  • SUPPORT: We provide confidential support and advice to young people struggling with thoughts of suicide, and anyone worried about a young person through our helpline, HOPELINEUK.
  • EQUIP: We engage communities and volunteers in suicide prevention projects and deliver training programmes to individuals and groups. This includes equipping local councils, healthcare professionals and school staff with suicide prevention skills.
  • ​INFLUENCE: We aim to shape national social policy and make a significant contribution to the local and regional implementation of national suicide prevention strategies wherever we can. Our campaigning comes from our passion as individuals, parents, families and communities who have been touched personally by young suicide. We press for change in many places using hard-hitting and dynamic campaigns as well as presenting evidence to those in power so that lessons can be learned and learning implemented to help save young lives. For full details of our ongoing campaigns including information sharing, standard of proof and media reporting, visit our campaigns page.​ ​
​How Your Money Helps
£5 enables a call, text or email to be answered on HOPELINEUK
 
£20 can pay for a longer, 20 minute telephone conversation to help a young person in distress overcome their pain and stay safe

£65 can keep our helpline, text and email services running for over one hour

£165 can cover the cost of training someone in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST) which is a two day course that prepares caregivers to provide suicide first aid interventions
 
£500 would enable 30 members of the community to become more suicide
aware
 
£800 would enable 30 members of the community to learn how to identify a person at risk of suicide and understand the reasons why
 
£1,200 would help us deliver 5 mental health and suicide awareness sessions to young people
 
£5,000 would keep our helpline, HOPELINEUK, our phone, text and email support services open for vulnerable young people and those around them for an entire week​
PAPYRUS has been a long standing member of the government advisory groups in England and Wales on suicide prevention matters. We are active members of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group in England and of the National Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention and Self-harm reduction in Wales. Other national bodies that we contribute to are the National Suicide Prevention Alliance and the National Police Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group.