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When life has you feeling down

12 January 2012
The days and weeks after Christmas and New Year can be a difficult time for the bereaved. Please click for some inspirational words to help you through the dark days more

Looking forward from Christmas

23 December 2011
Christmas and New Year are now behind us, and for those grieving it will be a time to look beyond to what 2012 will bring. Please click for some suggestions to help you look forward from Christmas more

Coping with bereavement at Christmas

16 December 2011
Christmas is a particularly difficult time for those who are bereaved. Maybe you’ve lost a child, partner, or another loved one - you may even wish you could cancel Christmas this year.Please click for some suggestions to support you through Christmas more

Coping with the Christmas holidays

14 December 2011
Coping with Christmas isn’t just about Christmas day – sometimes the issue is “How will I get through the holidays?” Please click for some suggestions to support you through the Christmas holidays more

Award for Hold out a Hand charity shop Christmas window

10 December 2011
A bonus for Christmas: Newport City Council awarded Hold out a Hand’s charity shop in Newport “2nd place Highly Commended” in the City’s Christmas Charity Shop window competition more

Hold out a Hand give BBC Radio Wales interview

10 December 2011
On Friday 2nd December Hold out a Hand were proud to be asked to give a 30 minute interview on the BBC Radio Wales morning programme “Jamie and Louise”, on the difficult but timely subject of how bereaved people can cope with their grief at Christmas. more

SWAN goes from strength to strength

29 November 2011
Hold out a hand affiliated widows’ support group SWAN (“Something for Women Alone Now”) opened their second branch in Newport this week, with 20 ladies attending the opening meeting at the Riverfront Centre Newport. more

Welcome to Hold out a hand

It’s our fifth birthday! It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in such a short time, with over 100 people now involved directly in the charity providing direct bereavement support to an ever growing number of clients (almost 500 people a year) – and the website has been key to that growth. Using the latest online tools we enable more people than ever to get the help they need. As well as access to our helpful literature and to our Help and Support line we provide new facilities for bereaved people to talk to each other online in the new Chat room, ask questions or discuss matters important to them through the Forum or perhaps leave a memorial, poem or picture of the person they’ve lost in our Memories section

The “Latest News” tells you what activities are currently taking place in the charity – the 2012 programme for our popular “Music in the Park” concerts will be launched soon, after our 2nd Annual Carol Concert - but if you want really up-to-the-minute news you can also find out what’s happening at Hold out a Hand using Twitter and Facebook: we are gearing up for a new generation that will need bereavement support, and we want to make sure they can find us quickly and easily - the right support in the right place at the right time

Hold out a Hand continues to look for new ways to help the bereaved and have a wide range of services that our clients have asked us to provide including:

  • Bereavement counselling and befriending

  • Help and Support line and signposting to relevant agencies and organisations

  • Literature

  • Drop-in evenings and courses on “Coping with Bereavement”

  • Social and support groups – three and rising!

  • Volunteering & fund-raising

  • “Safe Services” directory of trusted suppliers

If you are bereaved and looking for help or support in your grief,
please get in touch – we are always ready and willing to help

Registered offices: 2 Livingstone Place, Maindee, NEWPORT, South Wales, NP19 8EY

Company No. 6013665. Registered in England and Wales
– a company limited by guarantee Registered charity number 1118375

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