Bereavement

 

• Call the Samaritans 24-hour support service on 116 123

 

• Call the Bereavement Helpline open between 11am and 3pm, Monday to Friday on 0300 303 1897.

 

• Contact St Barnabas for information about Hospice care, well-being support and self referrals call our Palliative Care Co-Ordination Centre on 0300 020 0694 or email enquiries@stbarnabashospice.co.uk

 

• Contact Cruse for telephone helpline and web chat, and support sessions are being held over the telephone, email or internet. 
  • Lincoln Tel: 07900 317732 Email: Lincoln@cruse.org.uk;
  • Boston Tel: 01205 357396 Email: boston@cruse.org.uk;
  • Stamford & Bourne Tel: 07715 527611 Email: Stamford@cruse.org.uk

 

For support groups that offer you a space to express your grief in a safe and supported environment with others that have also experienced bereavement, book onto one of the virtual bereavement groups hosted by St Barnabas.

 

• To book onto one of the support groups or to benefit from counselling, call Lincoln Trauma Centre: 07812661348 / 07443634793, lincolntraumacentre@gmail.com

 

• For helpline and support from Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide call 0300 111 5065 open 9am to 9pm Monday to Sunday or email: email.support@uksobs.org

 

• Emotional support and practical help to those attending an Inquest at a Coroner’s Court is available from Coroners Courts Support Service.

 

Those who have lost a parent or sibling specialist support is available from:

• Winston Wish bereavement support, call 0808 802 0021 or ask@winstonswish.org

 

• Cruse offers telephone, email and website support. Free-phone national helpline and local services, and a website specifically for children and young people. Call 0808 808 1677

 

• Lincolnshire Centre for Grief and Loss who provide free counselling to children and young people, however they do require a professional referral.

 

For parents and children when a child dies, specialist support is available from:

 

• Child Bereavement UK call the helpline on 0800 028 8840

 

• The Compassionate Friends call the helpline on 0345 123 2304

 

• Emotional support and practical help to those attending an Inquest at a Coroner’s Court is available from Coroners Courts Support Service.

 

• Wellbeing Lincs: Offers help and support through life’s changes.

• Citizens Advice, Lincoln: Provide free, confidential and independent advice for money, benefit, housing or employment problems.

• Citizens Advice in the South of Lincolnshire: Help everyone find a way forward, whatever problem they face.

• Financial Advice from the City of Lincoln Council
See also: Debt respite from creditors. Read more at Breathing Space (Gov.UK)

• Help is at Hand  Help and advice after someone may have died by suicide.

• Further information can be downloaded from Support After Suicide