Donate £5 a month and join The Founding 500
A community keeping grief support free
We’re building a community of 500 people giving £5 a month to keep our support free for all who need it.
We’re 80 strong. Thank you 💛
We’re now working towards our next milestone: 120 supporters.
That’s just 40 more people giving £5 a month – helping us recruit, train and support more volunteers, and keep grief support free for everyone who needs it.
Just launched… our Welcome packs will be sent out shortly to all our Founding 500 members.
“The Loss Foundation began from the grief of my father’s death. Today, we support thousands every year.
That something so life-changing for many has come from the death of my favourite person is both beautiful and bittersweet.”
– Dr Erin Hope Thompson
Our impact is HUGE (but our resources are tiny)
📅 We’ve grown from one monthly event in 2012 to 12 a month today.
💻 6,000+ people visited our website in the last month alone.
💔 Yet we rarely raise more than £100k a year – less than 1.5% of the income of large UK cancer charities.
❤️ What our Founding 500 could fund every month…
1. ALL of our online support groups
⭐ Our most-used service
💻 Running around 10 times every month
💬 Safe, facilitated spaces where people bereaved by cancer can connect, share, and feel understood.
2. Volunteer training
“Training helps us do grief support well – for facilitators and the people we support.”
Alex – Senior Facilitator
🤝 High-quality support starts with well-supported facilitators.
📝 Grief-aware, evidence-informed training and refreshers.
🌱 Building confidence, resilience and best practice.
3. A specialist grief workshop
Focussing on…
🌙 Sleep – for nights when grief means rest feels out of reach.
🌊 Anxiety – for racing thoughts and fear that something is “wrong” with how you’re grieving.
🧠 Difficult memories – for when thoughts loop and flashbacks intrude.
Be one of the next 40 people giving £5 a month to fund this support.
We’re facing a “perfect storm” of falling funding, rising costs and growing demand.
With the support of 50 dedicated volunteers, we’ve stretched every pound as far as it can go.
Now, as costs rise, we need a more stable foundation to keep going.
Join us on the journey
You’ll hear more from our Founding 500 community throughout 2026, including special ways we’ll celebrate and connect with everyone helping us reach more people affected by cancer loss.
If The Loss Foundation has touched your life, or if you believe no one should face cancer bereavement alone, consider joining the Founding 500 today. Can’t give right now? Sharing this appeal is a gift too.
Thank you for helping us support those left behind by cancer – while we hope for the day it no longer takes the people we love.
With gratitude,
Dr Erin Hope Thompson MBE
Founder, The Loss Foundation
It’s not big donations that will ensure the future of our work – it’s many people giving a little, regularly.