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Compassionate Friends
53 North StreetBristol
BS3 1EN
Tel (Helpline): 0845 123 2304
Tel (Office): 0845 120 3785
Fax: 0845 120 3786
Web: www.tcf.org.uk
Best time to telephone: Helpline: 10am - 4.00pm, & 6.30pm - 10.30pm 365 days per year.
Founded in 1969 - TCF offers its help to bereaved parents whose son or daughter (of any age, including adult) has died from any cause. Ways in which help is offered include one-to-one visiting, group meetings, support through telephone calls or letters, the quarterly Newsletter (almost entirely written by bereaved parents themselves), a range of leaflets and a Postal Library of over 1,000 titles. Also retreats and a yearly weekend gathering.
TCF has a range of leaflets, booklets and books for bereaved parents, their families and the professionals who help them. These are mostly published within the organisation. Contact the above address for a full publications list, for details of past newsletter articles, or for information on the Postal Library service. Leaflet titles include the following.
- A father's grief
- After suicide
- Childless parents
- Coping with special occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas)
- Grieving couples
- On inquests (in England and Wales)
- Our surviving children
- When your adult child dies
- Helping your grandchildren when your child has died
- When a child in your school is bereaved
- A mother's grief
- Grief of the newly bereaved
Checked: September 2006
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