The Leeds Bereavement Forum supports the need in society to express grief and to come to terms with loss.
The Forum, set up in 1996, and is a city-wide network of organisations and individuals who offer services to bereaved people. A small team have been appointed to organise and manage this, to create the Directory and web Directory and to help develop and improve bereavement services as part of Leeds preventative mental health strategy. We work closely with existing services.
The Forum holds twice-yearly conferences and has several special interest groups.
The Forum is funded by the Leeds Primary Care Trust under their Mental Health remit.
We would welcome any comments you may have regarding the Directory, also if you would like to be included or have any updates please contact the office via email info@lbforum.org.uk
A meeting has been arranged to be held on Thursday 15 January 2009 at Leeds Methodist Mission Oxford Place at 2.00pm - 3.30pm. The speaker will be Charlotte Hanson - Health Improvement Specialist for Mental Health/Emotional Well-Being within the Leeds PCT. The topic will be Ageing and Mental Health - your views on the campaign. If you would like to attend please contact the office on info@lbforum.org.uk to book your place.
The talk notes and slide presentation by the Revd Robin Walford at the LBF AGM in December on the subject 'how to survive the holiday when you don't feel like celebrating and everyone else is' is now on the webiste under News and Events/Meetings.