"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for others"
George Elliot.

We are proud to share with you, that July 2025 marks 21 years since the founding of Brief Lives - Remembered.

We are so incredibly proud of what we have achieved in this time and very excited to look to the future of our unique charity.

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We are proud to announce that we have now received eight hundred offers of help.

Eight hundred clergy & non-religious celebrants from all corners of the UK have now offered their assistance, so, we can provide a service that gives families a chance to have a prayer, service or some special words.

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The latest Brief Lives - Remembered" Newsletter has now been sent out to over 16000 families, supporters, charities & organizations- The newsletter includes: news, stories, poems and memorial services. If you would like to receive a copy please feel free to contact us.

When your baby has died, Christmas can be unbearably difficult. The whole world seems to be celebrating, everybody appears to be obsessed with preparations, which seem to go on for weeks. These confront us at every turn - in shops and streets, on TV, radio, in magazines. We can often feel isolated by our grief.

As we contemplate Christmas – we wonder how we will survive. It is normal for parents to feel they just want to ’cancel’ Christmas.  Read More..

Christmas is starting to creep up on us all. We are delighted to share with you our Christmas Memorials. Would you like to see your son, daughter, brother or sister's name on one of our Christmas memorials to be included in a post on our Facebook page in the two weeks leading up to Christmas.

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Let’s look out for one another - National Grief Awareness Week is a compassionate and important observance dedicated to raising awareness about grief, providing support to those who are grieving, and fostering a better understanding of the grieving process. It acknowledges that grief is a natural response to loss and aims to break the stigma surrounding this deeply personal experience

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Baby Loss Awareness week is coming up very soon. Would you like to see your son, daughter, brother or sister's name on one of our profile picture on Facebook during awareness week.  

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Baby Loss Awareness Week in the UK Every year since 2002 from 9th - 15th October is Baby Loss Awareness Week. Throughout the week bereaved parents, family members and friends can commemorate the all-too-brief lives of their babies., knowing that thousands of other families elsewhere in the world will be doing the same. The week also provides a crucial opportunity for people to talk openly about the subject of and raise awareness of baby loss.

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The latest Brief Lives - Remembered" Newsletter has now been sent out to over 16000 families, supporters, charities & organizations- The newsletter includes: news, stories, poems and memorial services. If you would like to receive a copy please feel free to contact us.

We are often asked by families  as to whether we know of a vicar or non-religious celebrant who can say a prayer or some special words at their baby’s grave..

We have been putting together a database of people across the UK who would be willing to offer their services and are proud to announce that there is an ever growing number of people offering their help. Read more...

Terminology / Language We Use - As you may already be aware in the last two decades the language that is used when a baby dies seems to be far from the reality of what you, the families have lived through. We also believe it is not fitting with decades to which your babies died or were stillborn..Read more...

We have finally entered the world of social media and have set up a Facebook page so that we can get our charity out there and more parents can find us.

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