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The following organisations may be able to offer practical advice, support or comfort:

Age Concern - Bereavement Support Scheme - a national organisation for older people

Postal Address Age Concern England, 131 Katherine Street, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7AW
Telephone Number 0161 308 5000 Email Address infodep@ageconcern.org.uk
www.ace.org.uk Link to External Website

Cruse Bereavement Care - provides a nationwide service of bereavement counselling, advice, information and social contact through it's headquarters and more than 196 local branches to anyone bereaved by death irrespective of age, race, religion, gender or sexual preference.

Postal Address 126 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1UR
Telephone Number 0208 940 4818 or 0208 332 7227 (Cruse Bereavement Line - Mon-Fri 9.30am - 5pm) Email Address info@crusebereavementcare.org.uk

Direct.gov.uk - The easy way to government information and services online.

Directgov, Death and Bereavement Link to External Website

Funeral Services UK - Online Directory of Funeral Directors, Monumental Masons, Caterers and Florists.

www.funeralservicesuk.com Link to External Website

Gone Too Soon - An online memorial website. Create an everlasting tribute to someone close to you whom you have lost. GoneTooSoon provides an easy to use, free service that allows you to create and maintain a memorial, where family and friends can pay their tributes, thereby keeping the loved one's memory alive.

www.gonetoosoon.co.uk Link to External Website

Life for a Life: Memorial Trees and Forests - 'Life for a Life' offers you the chance to commemorate your loved ones by planting memorial trees in one of thirty woodland locations across the United Kingdom.

www.lifeforalife.org.uk Link to External Website

National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) - funerals in the United Kingdom, Support and Information

Postal Address 618 Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands B91 1AA
Telephone Number 0845 230 1343 / 0121 711 1343 (if calling from outside the UK) Fax Number 0121 711 1351
www.nafd.org.uk Link to External Website

Remembered Forever - A UK based website which allows grieving users to build personalized memorials, dedicated to their loved ones

www.remembered-forever.org Link to External Website

SSAFA Forces Help - is the national charity helping serving and ex-Service men, women and their families in need.

Postal Address 19 Queen Elizabeth Street, London, SE1 2LP
Telephone Number 0207 403 8783 Email Address info@ssafa.org.uk
www.ssafa.org.uk Link to External Website

Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) - information of interest to members of the public, members of the funeral profession, and SAIF members

Postal Address SAIF Business Centre, 3 Bullfields, Sawbridgeworth, Herts CM21 9DB
Telephone Number 0845 230 6777 Fax Number 01279 726 300
www.saif.org.uk Link to External Website

Tameside Community Legal Service

Postal Address CLS Co-ordinator, Council Offices, Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6DL
Telephone Number 0161 342 3100 Electronic Message Send a Message to Tameside Community Legal Service
www.tameside-cls.org.uk Link to External Website

The British Association of Cancer United Patients (BACUP) - provides a Cancer Information Service which gives information, practical advise and emotional support to patients, their families and friends, including those bereaved by the illness. London and Glasgow based one-to-one counselling service

Postal Address 3 Bath Place, Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3JR
Telephone Number 0207 613 2121 (Information). 0800 181 199 (Freeline). 0207 696 9000 (Counselling - London). 0141 533 1553 (Counselling - Glasgow)
Email Address www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Contactus
www.cancerbackup.org.uk/ Link to External Website

The Compassionate Friends - give support to parents whose son or daughter has died

Postal Address 53 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EN
Telephone Number 0117 953 9639 (Helpline) Email Address info@tcf.org.uk
www.tcf.org.uk Link to External Website

The Grief Centre (MABF) - information and counselling for local people on all bereavement matters

Postal Address 362 Manchester Road, Droylsden M43 6QX
Telephone Number 0161 371 8860
www.mabf.org.uk Link to External Website

The National Association of Bereavement Services - has a National Directory of Bereavement and Loss Services and can direct people to their nearest appropriate source of support.

Telephone Number 0207 247 1080 (24 hours, with answerphone)
Postal Address 20 Norton Folgate, London, E1 6DB

The Register Office (For Tameside)

Postal Address The Register Office, Town Hall, King Street, Dukinfield, SK16 4LA
Telephone Number 0161 342 5032 Fax Number 0161 342 5036 Email Address Send Tameside Registrars a Message
www.tameside.gov.uk/death/registering

The Samaritans - for someone you can talk to who will give you support. There are over 180 branches which are open 24 hours a day

Telephone Number 08457 90 90 90 Email Address jo@samaritans.org
www.samaritans.org.uk Link to External Website

The Terence Higgins Trust - is a charity providing practical support, help, counselling and advice for anyone with or concerned about AIDS or HIV infection.

Postal Address 52-54 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JU
Telephone Number 0207 242 1010 (noon-10pm daily) Email Address info@tht.org.uk
www.tht.org.uk Link to External Website

The War Widows Association of Great Britain - gives advice, help and support to all war widows and dependents.

Postal Address 1 Coach Lane, Stanton-in-Peak, DE4 2NA
Telephone Number 01629 636374 Email Address info@tht.org.uk

UK-Funerals - an independent consumer's guide to funerals

www.uk-funerals.co.uk Link to External Website


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