Useful Links - Death
Life Events
Dealing with a death in the family
Useful Contact Information
The following organisations may be able to offer practical advice, support or comfort:
Age Concern - Bereavement Support Scheme - a national organisation for older people
Age Concern England, 131 Katherine Street, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7AW
0161 308 5000
infodep@ageconcern.org.uk
www.ace.org.uk
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.
Direct.gov.uk - The easy way to government information and services online.
Funeral Services UK - Online Directory of Funeral Directors, Monumental Masons, Caterers and Florists.
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.
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.
National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) - funerals in the United Kingdom, Support and Information
0121 711 1351
www.nafd.org.uk
Remembered Forever - A UK based website which allows grieving users to build personalized memorials, dedicated to their loved ones
SSAFA Forces Help - is the national charity helping serving and ex-Service men, women and their families in need.
www.ssafa.org.uk
Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) - information of interest to members of the public, members of the funeral profession, and SAIF members
www.saif.org.uk
Tameside Community Legal Service
www.tameside-cls.org.uk
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
www.cancerbackup.org.uk/
The Compassionate Friends - give support to parents whose son or daughter has died
www.tcf.org.uk
The Grief Centre (MABF) - information and counselling for local people on all bereavement matters
www.mabf.org.uk
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.
The Register Office (For Tameside)
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
www.samaritans.org.uk
The Terence Higgins Trust - is a charity providing practical support, help, counselling and advice for anyone with or concerned about AIDS or HIV infection.
www.tht.org.uk
The War Widows Association of Great Britain - gives advice, help and support to all war widows and dependents.
UK-Funerals - an independent consumer's guide to funerals