Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland

Who We Are:

We offer bereavement support to clients living in all areas of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Dumfries. Our Admin office is in The Pentagon Centre, Washington Street, Glasgow. We use office/rooms in all the other areas listed . All appointments are by prior arrangement.

What We Offer:

We offer support to adults and children who are bereaved. There is a huge demand for our services and we do have waiting lists for both adults and children.

How to contact us:

Tel: 0845 600 2227
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.crusescotland.org.uk

Latest

"We did the things that Fraser would have wanted us to do."

Caroline’s son and only child Fraser died aged 18 from a brain tumour in 2022. Caroline remembers a special Christmas photo of Fraser and shares how she and her husband Phil marked Christmas after he died.
Caroline

Caroline was supported by Child Bereavement UK in Glasgow after her son and only child Fraser died, aged 18, from a brain tumour in 2022.
Child Bereavement UK’s animation 'The Invisible Suitcase’ wins at Big Syn International Film Festival

Child Bereavement UK’s animation ‘The Invisible Suitcase’ was the joint winner in the Mental Health Charity film category at the 2023 Big Syn International Film Festival, London.
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Marie Curie

This service offers counselling to children and young people, or advice and support to their care givers, who have been affected by life limiting illness. We work with children and young people aged from 4-18 pre and post bereavement.
SFAD (Scottish Families affected by Alcohol and Drugs)

SFAD offers a FREE and confidential support service to provide clients with listening and emotional support in the immediate period after the loss of a loved one due to a drug-related death. What We Offer: If appropriate, we can arrange up to 6 face to face counselling sessions for the client in their local area. We can also give you information about local peer support groups to meet together with people who have experienced a similar loss.
Seasons for Growth

Seasons for Growth is a successful, well researched, peer support education programme that gives young people and adults the opportunity to learn that change, loss and grief are normal and valuable parts of life. The programme provides participants with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to understand and manage how death, separation or other significant loss events may impact on their lives.
Scottish Cot Death Trust

The Trust is the only cot death charity in Scotland. The Trust is available to any family affected by the sudden, unexpected death of a baby or young child under 5 years of age.
SANDS

SANDS, the stillbirth and neonatal charity, is a well-established and widely respected UK charity that: Supports anyone affected by the death of a baby Works in partnership with health professionals to ensure that bereaved parents and families receive the best possible care Promotes and funds research and changes in care that could help to reduce the loss of babies’ lives. SANDS has a network of over 100 Groups around the UK, and 12 in Scotland.
Richmond's Hope

Richmond’s Hope was founded in 2003 to support children from Edinburgh and the Lothians who have been bereaved. Since opening we have supported more than 3000 children and their families.
North West Carers

Carers Teams and Projects across Glasgow provide support to carers of all ages. Each project has a dedicated young carers worker specifically to work with young people under 18. The role of the young carers worker is to try to reduce the young person’s caring role and provide them with support.
Muslim Bereavement Support Service

The Muslim Bereavement Support Service is a registered charity, founded in 2012 in London before expanding our service to Scotland in 2015. We are a non-profit organisation serving the Muslim community by supporting bereaved mothers and siblings. We work with other organisations, the NHS and hospices in particular, to give a spiritual and cultural context to the bereavement support services they offer.
ARC (Antenatal Results and Choices)

ARC is the only national charity helping parents and healthcare professionals through antenatal screening and its consequences and continuing that support to those parents who have made that difficult choice and have had the traumatic experience of terminating their pregnancy.

Telling a child that someone has died

It is important to tell a child of any age when someone important in their lives has died, and ideally this is done by someone who is closest to them.
Supporting bereaved children and young people

Children and young people grieve just as much as adults but they show it in different ways. Find out how you can help them and more about child grieving.
Grieving for a child of any age

The agony of losing a child of any age is unparalleled. There is no age or point in time that makes it any easier. No parent expects to face the death of their child and no grandparent expects to lose their grandchild.
Children's understanding of death at different ages

Guidance on children's understanding of death at different ages and stages of development.
When a grandparent dies

The death of a grandparent is often a child or young person’s first encounter with the death of someone important. Parents have a great deal to manage when their own parent or carer dies. There is the grief associated with their own loss, but also the reactions and responses of their children to the death of a grandparent.
Child Bereavement UK training

Child Bereavement UK designs and delivers training for professionals in health and social care, education, the emergency services and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.
Children's understanding of death at different ages

Babies and young children have no understanding of the concept of death yet, long before they are able to talk, babies are likely to react to upset and changes in their environment brought about by the absence of a significant person.
Contact us

Contact details for our Helpline, departments and services.
When your baby dies

When a baby lives only a short time or dies before birth due to miscarriage, stillbirth or a painful decision to end the pregnancy, people may assume that the loss is not important. This is simply not the case.
UK death & bereavement statistics

A parent of children under 18 dies every 22 minutes in the UK; around 23,600 a year. This equates to around 111 children being bereaved of a parent every day.

Short guidance films

Short films delivered by our support practitioners giving guidance on a range of bereavement topics. Read more

Books and resources

A list of books and resources relating to grief and bereavement and what may help. Read more

Others' experiences

Watch short films and read experiences of bereaved families and how support has helped them. Read more