Liverpool Bereavement Service

🎅 This December, we’re running for remembrance — and hope. On Sunday 7th December 2025, our Liverpool Bereavement Service team and dedicated volunteers will be joining thousands across the city for the Liverpool Santa Dash, raising funds to support those coping with grief and loss. Last year, together with your generosity, we raised £2,605, surpassing our goal of £2,000 — and we’re aiming even higher this year. Grief touches everyone — whether through bereavement, separation, or life-changing loss — and at Liverpool Bereavement Service, we believe no one should have to face it alone. Your donations help us provide free, professional counselling for adults and creative therapies for children and young people through our Oakleaf Service. 💚 How you can support: - Donate: Every contribution funds free, life-changing support for those in need. - Share: Help us spread the word. - Join us: Run, jog, or walk alongside our LBS Santas on the day! 📅 Liverpool Santa Dash — 7th December 2025 ⏰ 5k: 9:30am | Mini Dash: 11:00am | 📍 Pier Head, Liverpool Together, we can make every step count — and help ensure no one in our community has to face grief alone. 🌿 Donate here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eBRPnFd5 #LiverpoolBereavementService #SantaDash2025 #Fundraising #CommunitySupport #GriefAwareness #CharityRun #LiverpoolCharity #HopeAfterLoss #Oakleaf #Wellbeing #LBS

💚 This Movember, we’re shining a light on something often left unspoken — men’s grief. For many men, the messages start early: be strong, don’t cry, keep it together. But when loss happens, those expectations can turn silence into isolation. At Liverpool Bereavement Service, we see the quiet ways men carry grief — through work, responsibility, and holding things in for others. Yet, the truth is: speaking about loss doesn’t make you less strong. It makes healing possible. This Movember, let’s keep the conversation open — about men, mental health, and the many ways we experience and express grief. 🌿 LiverpoolBereavement.com #LiverpoolBereavementService #Movember #MensGrief #MensMentalHealth #GriefAwareness #Wellbeing #HopeAfterLoss #CommunityCare #LiverpoolCharity

Did you know? Across Mexico and Latin America, Día de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead — is a time to remember and celebrate those who have passed. Through stories, photos, music, and shared meals, families honour their loved ones — not in sorrow, but in connection and gratitude. Grief may look different across cultures, yet its essence is universal: love, remembrance, and continuing bonds. However you choose to remember, your way of honouring those you’ve lost matters. 🌿 https://lnkd.in/eGja6BbE #LiverpoolBereavementService #GriefSupport #DayoftheDead #CulturalRemembrance #CommunityCare #HopeAfterLoss #GriefAwareness #Wellbeing #LiverpoolCharity

Did you know? Long before Halloween became the celebration we know today, it began as a moment of remembrance — a time when people paused to honour those they’d lost. Across many cultures, this season symbolises transition: light to dark, summer to winter, presence to memory. It’s said to be a time when the veil between worlds grows thin, helping us feel a little closer to those no longer with us. Whether you light a candle, share a story, or simply take a quiet moment tonight — every act of remembering is an act of love. 💚 If grief feels especially close right now, please know that support is available. 🌿 LiverpoolBereavement.com #LiverpoolBereavementService #GriefSupport #CommunityCare #HopeAfterLoss #GriefAwareness #Wellbeing #LiverpoolCharity #RememberingLovedOnes

As we move into the darker, quieter months, many people find memories of loved ones come closer to the surface. Grief doesn’t follow the seasons, but moments like this can remind us of the deep bonds we still hold. At Liverpool Bereavement Service, we offer free, professional counselling to anyone in Liverpool affected by grief or loss — adults, children, and young people. If this time of year feels difficult, please know you don’t have to face it alone. 🌿 🔗 liverpoolbereavement.com #LiverpoolCharity #LiverpoolBereavement

Today is World Menopause Day — a reminder that grief isn’t always about death.  Sometimes, it’s about the quiet changes we go through as life shifts around us and within us. For many, menopause brings a deep sense of invisible grief: grief for a changing body, for fertility, for youth, or for parts of identity that once felt certain.  These feelings are valid, and they deserve to be spoken about with compassion and understanding. At Liverpool Bereavement Service, we recognise that loss takes many forms — not all of them visible. 💛 #WorldMenopauseDay #InvisibleGrief #LifeTransitions #LiverpoolBereavementService #LBS #MenopauseAwareness #Menopause #GriefSupport #Compassion #YouAreNotAlone #LiverpoolCharity

💚 Your donation makes a difference — right here in Liverpool. At Liverpool Bereavement Service, every penny you give helps someone find light in their darkest moments. It costs around £30 to provide one counselling session — whether that’s for an adult, a grieving parent, or a child through our Oakleaf service for young people. Every session matters. Every pound helps keep our doors open, our rooms warm, and our lights on — so we can continue to offer free, specialist bereavement support for anyone in Liverpool who needs it. Our counsellors are highly trained volunteers who give their time, compassion, and expertise freely. Many are qualified therapists, counsellors in advanced training, or professionals with years of experience. They’re the heart of what we do — supporting clients through our: 🌿 Adult Service 💛 Baby and Child Loss Service ☘️ Oakleaf Children & Young People’s Service Each person who walks through our doors is carefully matched with a counsellor best suited to their needs — whether that’s someone experienced with child loss, trauma, neurodiversity, or long-term grief. We’re so proud to be able to offer this work free of charge, but we can only do it with your help. If you can, please consider donating today to help us continue offering care, compassion, and hope to our city. 📲 Donate here: https://bit.ly/3WEWi1v 💚 Thank you for helping us keep this vital service free for Liverpool. #LiverpoolBereavementService #GriefSupport #DonateForGood #Oakleaf #LiveerpoolCharity #MentalHealthMatters #Counselling

We’re launching the Liverpool Bereavement Service Newsletter! Since 1998, LBS has been supporting people across Merseyside through one of life’s hardest journeys. Our new newsletter offers a closer look at the people, stories, and services that make our charity so special — including our Oakleaf support for children and young people. Each issue includes: 🌱 Updates on our work across Liverpool 💬 Stories of hope and resilience 🎓 Training and partnership highlights 🌼 Ways to support or get involved Every edition is a gentle reminder that no one should face grief alone. 👉 Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eyEW4MpU #LiverpoolBereavementService #GriefSupport #Counselling #LiverpoolCharity

We’re excited to announce a new private Facebook group for Liverpool Bereavement Service and Oakleaf counsellors 🌿 It’s a space to stay connected, share CPD opportunities, resources, reflections, and celebrate each other’s work — especially since our team works across different days and services. If you’re part of the LBS counselling team, you’re warmly invited to join us: https://lnkd.in/eREcJjkv For our wider network and supporters — thank you for continuing to champion the work we do. Your encouragement means the world 💙