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Runners cheering during the Cheltenham Running Festival

Cheltenham Running Festival – we’re the official 2024 partners!

7th March 2024 Blog, News, Press Releases

Winston’s Wish is delighted to announce that we have been made the Cheltenham Running Festival’s official partner for 2024! Each year the Cheltenham Running Festival, hosted at the Cheltenham Racecourse, extends the opportunity for marathon masters or novices to join the champions and run the distance of 5K, 10K or half ...

Wear Wellies Day is back for 2024 – Make a splash to raise some cash

10th December 2023 Press Releases

Children and young people's bereavement charity Winston’s Wish created Wear Wellies Day to bring a fun fundraising activity for offices, schools and professionals around the country, and to help raise awareness of childhood grief. Winston’s Wish explains that children’s emotions can change quickly. They may be sad or upset one moment ...

Bereavement charities partner to provide full circle support

22nd November 2023 News, Press Releases

This Children’s Grief Awareness Week, we are thrilled to announce an exciting partnership between Winston’s Wish and the national membership organisation WAY Widowed and Young, which supports people across the UK who have been widowed before their 51st birthday. A recent poll of WAY’s members with children – which make up ...

Young boy looking sadly out of the window

Government responds to call for official childhood bereavement data

13th October 2023 News, Press Releases

Earlier this year Winston’s Wish, in partnership with Child Bereavement UK and The Childhood Bereavement Network, lead a petition to government calling for official data to be recorded to uncover the true scale of childhood bereavement in the UK. Amassing over 11,000 signatures of support the petition, along with an open ...

Teenage girl lying down and using a phone - Winston's Wish summer services

Winston’s Wish services open over the summer holidays

1st August 2023 News, Press Releases

UK childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish is reminding bereaved young people that its services will remain open during the summer holidays. At a time of the year when many are making plans and enjoying the summer break, we continue to support grieving young people who may find the break in routine ...

Winston’s Wish backs recommendations to prioritise preventative mental health support for children and young people

30th June 2023 News, Press Releases

This week (29th June 2023) the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition issued their explorative report into the policy successes and challenges regarding children’s mental health over the past decade. The report finds that whilst many of the ambitions laid out by the Government to date have been a step ...

Petition launches to uncover the full scale of childhood bereavement in the UK

3rd May 2023 News, Press Releases

With support from Child Bereavement UK and The Childhood Bereavement Network, we have launched a petition to government to uncover the true scale of childhood bereavement. If we know how many and where the bereaved children of the UK are, the services that exist to support them can better plan, ...

Photo of 11-year-old Harvey sat on a sofa, smiling at the camera

Q. How many bereaved young people are there in the UK right now? A. Nobody knows!

7th March 2023 News, Press Releases

It’s estimated that 46,300 children under the age of 18 are bereaved of a parent every year. This, and other childhood bereavement statistics, are estimates based on mortality data combined with the number of adults currently living with dependent children. The honest truth is that we simply don’t know how many ...

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Cohabiting parents with dependent children now eligible to claim bereavement benefits

10th February 2023 News, Press Releases

After a decade long campaign by the child and youth bereavement sector, cohabiting parents with dependent children are now eligible to receive financial support after the death of a partner. From 9 February 2023 cohabiting parents will be able to make a claim for Bereavement Support Payment if they meet the ...

Thousands of grieving cohabiting families with children to be made eligible for bereavement benefits

26th January 2023 News, Press Releases

After a decade long campaign by the child and youth bereavement sector, MPs have approved the Bereavement Benefits Remedial Order (2022). Voted in favour by MPs in the House of Lords on 25th January 2023, the order will ensure bereavement benefits that help to bring up dependent children are eligible to ...

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