Who Are We?

We are a charity that provides relief to those are in need by reason of bereavement through death, family breakdown, separation, or divorce, through the provision of training and resources to deliver Grief Peer Support Programmes for children and teenagers.

Why Grief Support?

Bereavement affects a person’s emotional, spiritual, physical and mental health and well-being. When they don’t have anyone to talk through their feelings they will often be overwhelmed with a range of emotions.

Our Programmes

Growing Through programmes are peer support group curriculum’s that are biblically based. They are targeted, evidence-based programmes of intervention and prevention, to provide help for children to cope with their grief now, in the early stages, in order to prevent problems stemming from unresolved grief in their future.

Resources

During the upheaval of a deeply emotional time of loss in our lives, we can have a lot of questions or worries that we want to search out answers for. Growing Through may not provide all the answers to those questions but, we hope we can give you some guidance to help you navigate your journey of grief through our informational resources provided here.

Donate

Thank you for partnering with us to make a difference in the lives of bereaved children

£10

will buy one of our therapeutic card games

£20

will buy one of our therapeutic board games

£50

will buy Pot of Gold Leaders Guide

£100

will sponsor online training for a new local group

£364

will sponsor a Pot of Gold programme

£344.99

will sponsor a Rays of Light programme

The UK is among the highest-ranking rates for family breakdown in the western world along with the USA which has comparable statistics.

48% of all children born today (2010) will experience family breakdown before their 16th birthday, which is over 3.2 million children living in one parent households (Benson, 2010) or approximately, 4 million children do not live with both their parents (CSJ; 2013)

In 2015, 23,600 parents die in the UK, which equates to one parent every twenty-two minutes, leaving approximately 41,000 dependent children aged 0-17yrs. This transcribes as 112 bereaved children every day (CBN, 2016).

1:4 children will experience parental breakdown by the age of 16yrs.

41,000 children are bereaved every single year in the UK (CBN, 2016)