Offers emotional and practical support, including home visiting, respite care and palliative care to life-limited children and their families.

Child Death Helpline
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH
Tel: 020 78138551 (admin)/ 0151 2525391
Helpline: 0800 282986
Fax: 020 78138516
E-mail: Tracey.Wolfin@gosh-tr.nthames.nhs.uk

Offers support to parents, relatives, friends, teachers, nurses and anyone affected by a child's death in whatever circumstances.

Compassionate Friends
53 North Street, Bristol, BS1 3EN
Tel: 0117 9665202
Helpline: 0117 9539639
Fax: 0117 9665202

Offers support and friendship for bereaved parents and their families from those similarly bereaved.

COPE Children's Trust Cope House, 6 Tower Street, Leicester, LE1 6WS Tel: 0116 2549346 Fax: 0116 2857481

Provides children and young persons suffering from life-threatening disease with relief, respite hospice care, welfare care and counselling for the family.

Cruse Bereavement Care
Cruse House, 126 Sheen Road, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW9 1UR
Tel: 0208 9404818
Helpline: Bereavement Line: 0208 3327227 Youth Line: 0208 9403131
Fax: 0208 9407638

Offers help to people bereaved by death, including individual and group counselling, social support and practical advice.

Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
14 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DP
Tel: 0207 2350965
Helpline: 0207 2351721
Fax: 0207 8231986
E-mail: fsid@sids.org.uk
Web address: www.sids.org.uk/fsid/

Gives support and counsel to bereaved parents through its 24-hour Helpline, local befrienders and groups. Promotes and sponsors research on the causes and prevention of sudden and unexpected deaths, such as cot deaths and sudden infant death syndrome.

Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service
PO Box 6748, London, N3 3BX
Tel: 0208 3490839
Fax: 0208 3490839

Offers emotional help and support to members of the Jewish community who have been bereaved.

Lesbian and Gay Bereavement Project
Colindale Hospital, Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HG
Tel: 0208 2000511
Helpline: 0208 4558894
Fax: 0208 9059250
E-mail: LGBP@aol.com
Web address: www.members.aol.com/lgbp

Provides advice and support for homosexual people on the death of a partner. A simple will form, designed for use by members of gay partnerships, is also available on receipt of a sae

Pet Bereavement Support Group
45 Peafield Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 9DS
Tel: 01623 653173/ 0976 890111
Fax: 01623 653173

A free, confidential service offering phone befriending, advice, a visiting service and support by letter to bereaved pet owners.

Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS)
28 Portland Place, London, W1N 4DE
Tel: 0207 4367940
Helpline: 0207 4365881
Fax: 0207 4363715
Web address: www.members.aol.com/babyloss/sands.htm

SANDS provides support for bereaved parents and their families when their baby dies at or soon after birth.

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS)
Centre 88, Saner Street, Anlaby Road, Hull, HU3 2TR
Tel: 01482 610728
Fax: 01482 610728

Provides a support system for people bereaved by suicide.