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Associate Membership is open to relatives, friends and professionals interested in the work of TCF. By becoming a member you will be supporting our work with bereaved parents and their families. Full Membership of TCF is open to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings over 18yrs.
TCF holds a varied selection of books on bereavement for sale. All are written 'from the inside' and most are personal descriptions of grief journeys after the death of a son, daughter, brother or sister. Prose, poems and academic research - all are powerful testimonies of the individual search for meaning after an overwhelming tragedy.
The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is an organisation of bereaved parents and their families offering understanding, support and encouragement to others after the death of a child or children. We also offer support, advice and information to other relatives, friends and professionals who are helping the family.
TCF Retreats and Supportive Weekends
TCF hold several residential events throughout the year to give bereaved parents an opportunity to share their experiences with other bereaved parents and to benefit from a range of programmes, including workshops, discussion groups, keynote speakers and social activities. Whilst there is always a formal programme of activities that will take place during each event, it is up to the individual how much or how little they take part in.
The Compassionate Friends (UK)
Supporting bereaved parents and their families by those similarly bereaved.
We publish a wide range of leaflets and books on many aspects of grief, both for bereaved parents and their families and for those who wish to help them.
The Compassionate Friends - Links
The organisations listed on this page may be of help to you.
TCF offers local Contacts (befrienders) who listen and share with the bereaved, while providing a safe environment for bereaved parents and their families to express themselves in the company of others who understand their grief.
Membership of TCF is open to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. By becoming a member you will be supporting our work with bereaved parents and their families.
We publish two quarterly newsletters, one for bereaved parents and grandparents and one for bereaved siblings. Both are available through our membership scheme.
We publish a wide range of leaflets and books on many aspects of grief, both for bereaved parents and their families and for those who wish to help them.
Publications Order Form. Order a wide range of leaflets and books on many aspects of grief.
The Compassionate Friends would like to thank the following people and organisations for sponsoring our website. Without their support our site would not exist.
The different ways that you can support TCF.
Links with TCF groups around the world.
The Compassionate Friends Postal Lending Library is for bereaved parents, their families and those helping them.
Contact The Compassionate Friends' Webmaster using this form.
The Compassionate Friends (UK) Web Site
- Introducing TCF
- After suicide
- Back at work
- Bereaved Single Parent
- Childless parents
- Coping with judgemental attitudes
- Coping with special occasions
- Creative use of grief
- Death abroad
- Death of a stepchild
- Death of an adult child
- Father's grief
- Grieving couples
- Grief of the newly bereaved
- Grieving for our baby
- Helping your grandchildren when your child has died
- Living with grief
- Mother's grief
- On inquests (England & Wales)
- Our childrens' friends
- Our surviving children
- Preparing our child's funeral
- Sibling's grief
- Sudden death of our child
- When our child has died from a terminal illness
- When our grandchild dies
- When your child has been murdered
- Guidelines for funeral directors
- Helping a bereaved employee
- Helping bereaved parents
- Ministering to bereaved parents
- Police and bereaved parents
- When a child in your school is bereaved
The Compassionate Friends - Links