Variety Funerals™ are here for you at every step in your funeral arrangements. For specialist support there are a number of organisations that provide bereavement and mental health services for free.
Please find details below of organisations you, a friend or family member may wish to contact.
Urgent Mental Health Needs – ENGLAND
NHS urgent mental health helplines are for people of all ages in England. You can call for:
- 24-hour advice and support for you, your child, your parent or someone you care for
- help speaking to a mental health professional
- an assessment to find the right care for you
Urgent Mental Health Needs – WALES
C.A.L.L. stands for Community Advice & Listening Line and is the Mental Health Helpline for Wales Offering a confidential listening and support service. Call 0800 132 737 (FREE and available 24/7), Text help to 81066 or visit the C.A.L.L. website.
Mental health support by text message
You can text “SHOUT” to 85258 for free from all major UK mobile networks. You’ll then be connected to a volunteer for an anonymous conversation by text message.
This is not an NHS service. This free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging mental health support service is run by a charity called Mental Health Innovations.
Hub of Hope
The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first time.
Hub of Hope is useful if you wish to seek support from organisations local to you.
AtaLoss
AtaLoss has 1,365 organisations locally and nationally to provide bereavement support. Simply answer a few questions to find the support you need.
The Bereavement Journey – Nationwide
Run in 6 sessions and with small facilitated groups online, The Bereavement Journey uses films and discussion to help guide people through the most common aspects of grief. It is for anyone who has been bereaved at any time, and although often run by churches, it is for people of any faith or no faith, as all the faith content is confined to the optional 6th and final session which looks at bereavement from a Christian perspective. The groups will enable you to meet, talk and share with others with similar bereavement experience to yourself.
Contact a Samaritan
Whatever you’re going through, you can call a Samaritan at any time, from any phone for FREE by dialling 116 123.
SAMARITANS offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you.
Cruse
Cruse Bereavement Support are the UK’s leading bereavement charity. Call the Cruse Helpline on 0808 808 1677 for grief support or visit their website.
The Silver Line
The Silver Line Helpline is a free, confidential telephone service just for older people, aged over 55 years old. The Silver Line provide friendship, conversation and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call free on 0800 4 70 80 90 or visit their website.
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide are the only organisation offering peer-to-peer support to all those over the age of 18, impacted by suicide loss in the UK. Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide help those bereaved by suicide to support each other, at the time of their loss and in the months and years that follow. Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide are a self-help organisation and they provide a safe, confidential environment in which bereaved people can share their experiences and feelings, so giving and gaining support from each other.
Their National Support Line, 0300 111 5065, is open Monday and Tuesday 9am – 5pm
Veterans UK
Veterans UK is part of the Ministry of Defence. Veterans UK provide free support for veterans and their families, including a helpline, Veterans Welfare Service, Defence Transition Services and injury/bereavement compensation scheme payments.
Freephone (UK only) 0808 1914 2 18 or Telephone (overseas) +44 1253 866 043; 8.00 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.
The National Bereavement Service
The National Bereavement Service team comes from a variety of professional backgrounds, such as the NHS, legal, estate agency, business and funeral services and is committed to providing experienced information and advice to bereaved people.
The National Bereavement Service advisors are available: Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm and Saturday, 10am-2pm. For more information about the National Bereavement Service, contact 0800 0246 121, for international callers: +44 1207 268 681
