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This Children’s Grief Awareness Week, we are thrilled to announce an exciting partnership between Winston’s Wish and the national membership organisation WAY Widowed and Young, which supports people across the UK who have been widowed before their 51st birthday. A recent poll of WAY’s members with children – which make up ...

Earlier this year Winston’s Wish, in partnership with Child Bereavement UK and The Childhood Bereavement Network, lead a petition to government calling for official data to be recorded to uncover the true scale of childhood bereavement in the UK. Amassing over 11,000 signatures of support the petition, along with an open ...

UK childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish is reminding bereaved young people that its services will remain open during the summer holidays. At a time of the year when many are making plans and enjoying the summer break, we continue to support grieving young people who may find the break in routine ...

With support from Child Bereavement UK and The Childhood Bereavement Network, we have launched a petition to government to uncover the true scale of childhood bereavement. If we know how many and where the bereaved children of the UK are, the services that exist to support them can better plan, ...

It’s estimated that 46,300 children under the age of 18 are bereaved of a parent every year. This, and other childhood bereavement statistics, are estimates based on mortality data combined with the number of adults currently living with dependent children. The honest truth is that we simply don’t know how many ...

After a decade long campaign by the child and youth bereavement sector, cohabiting parents with dependent children are now eligible to receive bereavement benefits after the death of a partner. From 9 February 2023 cohabiting parents will be able to make a claim for Bereavement Support Payment if they meet the ...

The new Cotswolds edition of Monopoly has launched and we’re delighted that Winston’s Wish features on a Community Chest square, sandwiched between Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm Shop and Daylesford Organic! It was announced last year that a Cotswolds version of Monopoly was being created and the public was invited to ...

Winston’s Wish worked closely with award-winning director Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty, Still Life) on his new film, Nowhere Special, starring James Norton (McMafia, Little Women) as a father diagnosed with a terminal illness desperately trying to protect his young son. As the UK’s first childhood bereavement charity, Winston’s Wish ...