Services for Businesses

Bereavement Consultancy Service

• Unsure of how best to support a bereaved employee in your workplace?
• Need more information on what to expect when someone is grieving?
• Want to talk through your workplace’s specific situation with someone who has experience working with bereaved people?

Our bereavement consultancy service involves a 30-minute appointment either by phone or over Teams/Zoom, with our Bereavement Support Coordinator, Fay Bloor, to discuss the challenges facing your bereaved colleague, and ways that your workplace can best support them.

We understand that it can be a fine balance between keeping a business running, and acting compassionately, and there is no one size fits all approach. During the appointment we can discuss your particular circumstance, mixing your knowledge of how your business runs with our knowledge of what bereaved people need, to help find the best way to support them.

The 30-minute appointments cost £25, and can be booked by contacting Fay through the contact details below.

Grief Journey for Businesses

As well as running our Grief Journey Programme in the community, Wathall’s offer a bespoke support programme to enable businesses, organisations and charities* to better help colleagues and stakeholders come to terms with bereavement.

Grief Journey for Businesses can be delivered either in the workplace or an external venue nearby and is designed for small groups of people who are at various stages in their bereavement process.

It is not formal counselling but the opportunity to be part of a group that explores the grief process and emotional pathway and helps people come to terms with adjustments to life as it is now and the ‘new normal’.

Our aim of bringing this into the workplace is to break down the taboos of talking about death and encourage everyone to be more open about their feelings.

*This service is free of charge to charities

Manager’s Bereavement Training

This training programme has been developed by the Wathall’s bereavement support and counselling team and is run by the company’s trained facilitators.

The 90-minute training explains the grief journey and provides practical advice and support, enabling employers to give their staff the validation and space they need to come to terms with their loss and better cope with their work and home life.

Our aim is to help employers recognise the support they need to put into place for individuals and better help them to return to being happy and productive in the workplace.

Grief Journey for Businesses can be delivered either in the workplace or an external venue nearby and is designed for small groups of people who are at various stages in their bereavement process.

For more information please download our Management Bereavement Training leaflet 

For more information or to book any of these services, please contact our Bereavement Support Coordinator, Fay Bloor, by email at fay.bloor@wathalls.co.uk or calling 01332 345268.