Grief Encounter
What is Grief Encounter?
Grief Encounter is a leading bereavement charity in the UK, supporting children, young people and their families after the death of a parent or someone close.
Losing a parent or sibling is both devastating and life-changing for a child. Grief Encounter works closely with bereaved children, their family, school and other professionals to help them find a way through the anxiety, fear and isolation so often caused by grief.
There to help children grieve – however they need to
Grief affects everyone uniquely. For children and young people, grief is life changing. That's why Grief Encounter offers a wide range of services to help children and their familes navigate through their pain, isolation and confusion. This includes:
- 1:1 therapy sessions with qualified bereavement specialists
- Online grief support resources, useful guides, and practical tools, created by grief professionals
- Residential weekends, group, and remembrance workshops
- Family Fun days
- Grief Relief Kits containing age-appropriate resources, including storybooks, a journal, and workbooks
- In-school support for children and young people
- A free, nationwide telephone service with support from our Bereavement Support team
- A specialist team to care for the most complex cases of grief, including targeted therapies such as sleep and creative therapy professionals.
How can I launch this service?
Making sure your employees know about wellbeing services is almost as valuable as the services themselves. That’s why we go the extra mile to make sure you have the tools you need to tell your employees what’s out there to help them in an engaging and informative way.
To help you, we’ve prepared some engagement support materials, which you're welcome to share with your employees to let them know about this service:
How can my employees access the Grieftalk helpline?
Your employees can contact the Grieftalk helpline via the telephone, email or through the Grief Encounter website, details are as follows:
0800 802 0111. Lines are open weekdays between 9am and 9pm.
grieftalk@griefencounter.org.uk
This is a professional and confidential service.
Registered charity number: 1175837
Employee Hub
Your employees can also access their own Employee Hub. This will give them all the information they'll need around the wellbeing services available to them and includes information on Grief Encounter. You can share the below link with your employees.
Need some help?
If you have any questions about Grief Encounter, please get in touch with your usual Aviva Account Manager or Financial Adviser.