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Recently our incredible PSGC Counsellor Karen Tracey retired after 17 years of service at Edward’s Trust. We thank her for all her work, supporting clients and colleagues alike with kindness and care, and wish her the best in her new chapter!

The Big Give Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest match-funded campaign, and once again Edward’s Trust is taking part in it. Every donation has the power to be doubled!

Sue Dale, one of our amazing Senior Children & Young Persons Bereavement Counsellors and one of Edward’s Trust longest serving members of staff, will be soon retiring. This is a goodbye text she wrote.

The festive season can be a very difficult and emotional time for bereaved families. Here are some recommendations from our counsellors to prepare for Christmas and be able to care and support each other over this potentially difficult time.

A gift in your will could leave a lasting legacy of hope and ensure that bereaved families continue to receive the support they need for generations to come.

Edward’s Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Clare Martin as our permanent Chief Executive Officer.

Our specialist bereavement counsellors recommend four books about child loss, bereavement and grief out of the many that exists.

Our specialised children and young people bereavement counsellors recommend seven children’s books about bereavement and grief.

After years of campaigning by experts across the bereavement sector, including the Childhood Bereavement Network and Child Bereavement UK, the Department for Education has now embedded grief and loss education into its statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSE) guidance.

In this blogpost we explore the ways in which bereaved parents experience guilt as their grief shifts and changes with time. As they ‘learn to live with’ and build their lives around the inexorable grief of the death of a child, different types of guilt can be present along the way.

We are celebrating the invaluable contribution that our incredible volunteers make to give back and help bereaved families every day

The story of a brave 16-year-old who delivered a school assembly on suicide after losing her father at the age of nine is a reminder that while these conversations may feel uncomfortable, they are deeply needed.