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Dr Shelley Gilbert MBE appeared on GB News launching her updated version of ‘griefbook’ for Children’s Grief Awareness Week 2021. Shelley discussed the additional 10,000 children who have been bereaved of a primary caregiver as a direct result of the Pandemic, and how their grief journey can be helped with the right communication tools.

Dr Shelley Gilbert MBE discussed Children’s Grief Awareness Week on BBC Radio Leeds, giving her opinion on how the pandemic has affected bereaved children and young people, and how the #saythewords campaign can benefit a grieving child. She also launched her updated version of ‘griefbook’ which offers different tools to aid communication after the death of someone close. Listen... Read More

Dr Shelley Gilbert, founder of Grief Encounter, comments on the estimated that 750,000 people across the UK, who have been unable to hold or attend a funeral in the way they would want during the pandemic. Charities, including Grief Encounter, are pleading with the government to lift measures restricting funeral numbers. Read the full article in The Mirror

With over 125,000 excess deaths from Covid alone in the last year, we estimate that more than 750,000 people are deeply impacted by grief following the death of a loved one. That’s almost a quarter of a million people who have not been able to host a funeral for someone close in the way they, or the deceased would... Read More