Provides specialist training in bereavement counselling skills for healthcare professionals and anyone who offers professional care to families when a baby or child dies. Runs seminars, workshops, and conferences and provides resources for families.

Compassionate Friends
53 North Street, Bristol, Bs1 3EN
Tel: 0117 9665202
Helpline: 0117 9539639
Fax: 0117 9665202

Offers support and friendship to bereaved parents and their families.

Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
14 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DP
Tel: 0207 235 0965
Helpline: 0207 2351721 (24hrs)
Fax: 0207 8231986
E-mail: fsid@sids.org.uk
Web address: www.sids.org.uk/fsid/

Offers support and council to bereaved families through its 24-hour helpline, local befrienders and groups. Promotes and sponsors research into the causes and prevention of sudden and unexpected deaths (cot deaths and sudden infant death syndrome).