We are here to make sure that everyone approaching the end of their life or living with grief can access the support they need. We can’t make life’s most difficult moments easy, but we can carry some of the load.

Dying and grief are universal experiences, but too many people face them alone. We are a safe and reassuring hand you can reach for. From providing care and support for someone at the end of their life to helping someone manage their grief, we know there is no one size fits all when it comes to how we cope and the help we need.

The challenges we face

Right now, across the UK, many people who are approaching the end of their life or living with grief are unable to access the support they need, with certain demographics finding it harder to access appropriate services than others. End-of-life care is fragmented and underfunded, and services haven’t evolved to meet the changing and increasing needs of the population. GPs have shared their concerns about limited services, long waiting lists and the lack of a bereavement pathway linked with NHS services.

Difficult conversations about end-of-life and after-death wishes often go unspoken, deterring people from accessing palliative care services
earlier on, and loved ones are left to dwell on whether there was more they could have done.

People who are bereaved are often unable to reach out for support from friends and family and struggle to find the support and information they want in the form it is needed. For some people,
the right support means specialist palliative care or professional bereavement support.

For others, it means access to information and resources, financial help, or support from within their community. For many, it means simply having support from friends or family, but we’re not great at talking about death in the UK.
We want to change that. We want everybody who is grieving or living with a life-limiting condition and their families to be supported through the most difficult of times.

Our vision

We want a society that supports everyone through dying and grief.

A society where the voices of people who are dying or grieving are heard, where everyone gets the care and support they need, and services are integrated with the wider healthcare system. A society where everybody can have open and honest conversations with their friends and family to help them prepare for death, and where people with a life-limiting diagnosis are supported to live well in the time they have left. Where trusted resources, information and bereavement services are accessible to everybody who needs them and where communities across the country provide compassion and support to those in need so that nobody grieves alone.