{"id":62118,"date":"2025-02-14T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=62118"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:13:42","slug":"funding-secures-support-for-sheffielders-struggling-with-grief-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/funding-secures-support-for-sheffielders-struggling-with-grief-and-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding secures support for Sheffielders struggling with grief and loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Community-led program Compassionate Sheffield have said a \u00a3400,000 five year funding scheme will allow them to continue to support people with their experiences of death and bereavement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compassionate Sheffield<\/a>, established in 2021, aims to create safe-spaces for people to explore their feelings and knowledge of bereavement, grief and loss. They also offer targeted support to those experiencing health and wellbeing inequalities across the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding from Sheffield City Council, which was confirmed on Monday February 3, will allocate \u00a380,000 annually from the Public Health Grant to Compassionate Sheffield to support their programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cally Bowman, Community Engagement & Communication officer for Compassionate Sheffield, said: \u201cWhether we have a life limiting condition ourselves, or we are experiencing loss in our own lives, either personally or through supporting loved ones who are navigating grief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can all benefit from growing confidence in how to access support and how to support each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The community driven programme offers specific support such as workshops on understanding grief and collaborating with Mosques to offer regular men\u2019s discussion groups  about topics surrounding death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Bowman added: \u201c We want to empower people, organisations and communities to grow their confidence, capability and capacity to open more conversations about life, loss and death. This helps remove stigma and enable more people to talk and access support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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