It offers personal and confidential help, backed by a wide range of publications. It offers leaflets and information for bereaved parents and health professionals. As a national organisation it campaigns with and on behalf of older people, raises money to help pensioners in need and provides direct services where a gap in provision has been identified. The organisation has offices all over England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Lesbian and Gay Bereavement Project offers support and advice to lesbians and gay men bereaved by the death of a same-sex life partner.
All members are comfortable with their own gayness and are well trained and supervised.
The National Association of Bereavement Services has a national directory of bereavement and loss services, and can direct people to their nearest appropriate source of support. The National Association of Widows offers information and support through local branches. The Natural Death Centre helps friends and relatives to arrange funerals with or without using undertakers. The Centre also provides advice on green burial, advocating the use of cardboard coffins and nature reserve burial grounds. The Centre is a non-profit charitable project launched in Britain in 1991, with three psychotherapists as directors.