Cruse Bereavement Support NI

20/02/2026

* REMINDER - Cookstown Bereavement Event, 24th February *

Have you been bereaved and live in the Cookstown/Magherafelt area? Cruse Bereavement Support is holding an Understanding Your Bereavement session for those in this area who are struggling with grief. The session will be held in Cookstown Library on Tuesday 24th February at 7.30pm.

To register for the event, please use this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cruseuyb/2039928

20/02/2026

Sunday, 8th March is the National Day of Reflection to remember those who died during the pandemic. Alongside Memory Stones of Love we are holding a service in Belfast City Hall at 1 pm. If you would like to attend, please register at this link and join us as we remember loved ones who died during the pandemic. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/crusenationalservices/2063349 💜💛

19/02/2026

Today we are at an event for parents and carers of children with learning and/or physical disabilities in Enniskillen organised by the Western Trust. 💜

18/02/2026

The family-centred cancer care research team at UIster University are conducting a study exploring the needs of families who are experiencing, or have experienced social or financial hardship, when an adult with significant caregiving responsibilities (such as a parent) has terminal cancer.

The interview can be with either:
the adult with terminal cancer,
or
another adult family member who has been bereaved to cancer

To be eligible, you must meet at least two of the following criteria:

be unemployed,
have a low household income,
have not completed high school,
come from a single-parent family.

Participation would involve a one-to-one interview with an experienced clinican and researcher within our Team online or on WhatsApp. The interview would last up to 60-minutes.

You can read more about the study and sign-up using this link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/consent-v2

16/02/2026

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." 💜
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13/02/2026

Have you been bereaved and live in the Cookstown/Magherafelt area? Cruse Bereavement Support is holding an Understanding Your Bereavement session for those in this area who are struggling with grief. The session will be held in Cookstown Library on Tuesday 24th February at 7.30pm.
To register for the event, please use this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cruseuyb/2039928

11/02/2026

Our Foyle and North Down and Ards branches currently have availability to support bereaved children and young people from the age of 8 - 17.

To contact the branch to refer a child, please complete a webform through the Cruse website at this link - https://www.cruse.org.uk/postcode-lookup/ 💜

10/02/2026

🏃‍♀️ 𝐑𝐮𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 & 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀 🏃‍♂️

Join Team Cruse for the stunning Hillsborough Castle & Gardens 10K or Half Marathon on Sunday 25th July and make every mile count.

🌳 Run through historic parkland, tree-lined avenues and beautiful gardens
💜 Help ensure no one has to face grief alone
💷 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 £𝟭𝟱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲
🎉 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝟮𝟱% 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆!

Every step you take helps Cruse provide vital support to bereaved individuals, families and communities across Northern Ireland.

👉 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝟮𝟱%: https://www.cruse.org.uk/hillsborough-castle-and-gardens-running-festival/

Run it for the challenge. Run it for the cause. Run it for Cruse 💜

09/02/2026

Thanks to Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, Chris Quinn, who met with some of the young people from our Youth Advisory Group to talk about the work they have been involved in over the last four years for the Somewhere For Us project and how bereavement has impacted their lives.

The voice of the young people is impactful and so important, helping us to focus on their needs following a bereavement. It was great for them to be able to share their experiences. 💜

This was an incredible meeting 🥹

Commissioner Chris Quinn was blown away after he met the Cruse Bereavement Support NI Youth Advisory Panel this week.

This is a group of young people who have come together to support one another through the many emotions and situations experienced when losing a loved one.

By sharing their feelings and stories, these young people know they are not facing their grief alone.

Chris said: “Listening to the voices of young people and their lived experiences of bereavement was incredibly powerful and humbling.

“The meeting focused on the needs of children and young people bereaved in Northern Ireland, sharing learning from the first year of the service, and exploring how bereavement should be meaningfully embedded within the school curriculum.

“What came through so strongly was just how much bereavement can impact a child or young person’s emotional wellbeing, learning, and relationships and why early intervention is absolutely critical.

“We must be doing more to educate children and young people, and those who support them, about bereavement. Schools need clear bereavement policies and bereavement registers so that a child’s needs are recognised, acknowledged, and met, not missed or misunderstood.

“This was an informal but deeply impactful conversation, and was I left feeling inspired, challenged, and even more committed to ensuring young people’s voices continue to shape how we respond to bereavement.

"Their insight matters and we need to listen.”

💙🩷🧡💚❤️

09/02/2026

Bereaved families from across Northern Ireland will come together for a shared moment of remembrance, honouring all those lost during the Covid-19 pandemic. The event will feature moving stories, poetry, and reflections, exploring how grief continues to endure over time. We will also mark International Women’s Day, celebrating the lives of remarkable women no longer with us while honouring their lasting legacy.

Music will be provided by the young performers of Newtownabbey Arts and Cultural Network, alongside the much-loved Rock Choir. A local piper will lead a minute’s silence, with the moment formally marked by the High Sheriff of Belfast.

The event will include over 300 Memory Stones of Love, each bearing the name of someone lost during the pandemic. Our HOPE installation, displaying photographs of those we continue to remember, will be on show, alongside a special exhibition capturing reflections of grief experienced during the pandemic.

Also on display will be a series of commissioned portraits by local artist Aidan Sloan, who lost his own mother, Kate, during the first lockdown in May 2020.

On the eve of the Covid-19 Day of Reflection, Belfast City Hall will be illuminated yellow, standing in tribute to all those we have lost — and continue to miss every day.

We thank Belfast City Council for their kind generosity for the use of City Hall. 💜

06/02/2026

Sometimes all in the same week.
Learn more about grief at https://ow.ly/lFW850Y12Vm

30/01/2026

🔵 🔵 Tesco shoppers in Coleraine, Ballymoney, and Portstewart – we need your help! 🔵 🔵

Cruse is one of the charities in the Tesco Stronger Starts Blue Token Scheme! The participating Superstores are:

🛒 Coleraine
🛒 Ballymoney
🛒 Portstewart

Please pop a token (or two!) in the Cruse box – it could help us get up to £1,500 to support more bereaved people in these communities 🔵 🔵 🔵

Every token counts. Thank you for your support! 🙏