Proposed New All-Party Parliamentary Group on Grief Support and the Impact of Death on Society

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with CISWO, the coal mining charity, to provide bereavement support for former miners and their dependent families.

Today marks a significant milestone as The Bereavement Journey® celebrates 30 years of providing vital grief support to bereaved individuals. 

This week sees Ruth Jones, MP for Newport West and Islwyn publish an Early Day Motion in Parliament supporting and celebrating the contribution The Bereavement Journey® is now making in 400 locations across the country. This is an encouragement as we prepare to mark 30 years since the original The Bereavement Journey course in a few weeks’ time.

Darragh Ennis, widely known as The Menace on ITV’s quiz shows The Chase and Beat the Chasers, appeared on ITV’s Loose Women this afternoon to share his personal experience of losing his father and how this has inspired him to become a Celebrity Ambassador for the bereavement charity, AtaLoss.

Jackie Clune is an actor and writer working in theatre, TV and film, and Vice President of Equity, the union for creative industry workers. She started out as a Karen Carpenter comedy tribute act and has since worked across many different sectors of the industry, from West End musicals to International commercial touring, fringe, subsidised theatre and cabaret, as well as TV sitcom and drama.

Singer songwriter Chris Simmons, who released a Christmas single ‘A Cold December’ about his grief in aid of AtaLoss, has become the first ever unsigned artist to get a top 10 in the Christmas charts.

Registering your real Christmas tree for collection between now and January 8th will help us help them. Using our partner charity Just Helping’s registration process to book and pay for its collection will mean that your tree will continue to bring light to people’s lives.

AtaLoss has won four awards in two years.  We were identified as Best Bereavement Signposting Service and Best Bereavement Information Provider in the Ai Awards UK in 2023 - and in 2024 we have won two separate Care Awards with UK Business Awards, Funeral Services, first for our signposting and then for our The Bereavement Journey® community support programme for providing the best Grief Support service.

AtaLoss has joined forces with Funeral Experts, an innovative provider of advice and support around bereavement, to offer a holistic support system for individuals and families coping with the devastating loss of a loved one. 

AtaLoss has added several key staff in order to reinforce its role as a national signposter.

We’re delighted to announce that Child Bereavement UK, a charity which helps children, young people, parents and families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies, is collaborating with AtaLoss to provide signposting to their beneficiaries.

Whilst his account is one of being 'spare' to the throne, of unconscious bias in a mixed-race marriage and of tabloid misinterpretation, underlying Prince Harry’s whole story is unresolved grief, whether that be in his memory loss, fears and other mental health challenges, his resorting to drugs to null the pain, or the anger, other heightened feelings and misunderstandings between him and his family.

Many congratulations to AtaLoss.org Trustee, Jane Oundjian, who has been recognised with an MBE in the Queen's Belated Birthday Honours List! 

711 adults bereaved in the UK between March and December 2020, participated in this important research undertaken jointly by Cardiff and Bristol Universities. The findings are important and will have fed into the work of the UK Bereavement Commission which will report in September.