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Bereavement

Bereavement services

• Brighton and Hove City Council Bereavement Services
  Bereavement services provide a personal, caring and dignified service to any member of the public that has suffered a bereavement.
• Civic Funerals
  Civil funerals offer bereaved families an alternative to a wholly religious or humanist ceremony. A civil funeral is an end of life ceremony, which is driven by the wishes, beliefs and values of the person and their family, not by the belief or ideology of the person conducting the funeral.
• Planning for a funeral (99kb PDF file)
  This factsheet briefly discusses arrangements that can be made in advance for your own or someone else’s funeral. It also explains what to do when someone has died and refers to other organisations which may be useful.
• Registering a death
  
  

Bereavement support groups

• Brighton and Hove Bereavement Support
  A free bereavement service sponsored by the churches in Brighton and Hove.
  
• Counselling Directory
  Counselling Directory connects visitors with a wealth of information and the ability to search for the most suitable counsellor or psychotherapist.
• Cruse Bereavement Care
  Promote the well-being of bereaved people and enables anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services.
  
• The Child Death Helpline
  Whenever you feel the need to talk, however soon or long after bereavement.

Bereavement information leaflets

• Cruse Bereavement Services (330kb PDF file)
  This leaflet offers support and advice when someone has been affected by a death.
• Help the Aged Bereavement information leaflet (201kb PDF file)
  An advice leaflet for older people coping with bereavement.
• What to do after a death (220kb PDF file)
  An information leaflet explaining the first things to do and the help available.