About Help After Loss

Every year, over 680,000 people in the UK struggle with bereavement admin. Research by Marie Curie found that the average person needs to contact 21 different organisations after a death. 100,000 people still have not closed all accounts 12 months later.

The information exists, but it is scattered across dozens of government websites, charity pages, and forums. None of it is personalised. A 25-year-old whose parent dies suddenly needs completely different guidance to a 70-year-old whose spouse dies after a long illness.

We built Help After Loss to solve this. Answer a few questions, get a personalised checklist with real deadlines, estimated costs, and links to the right places. Free, forever.

Our tool asks you simple questions about your situation: who died, your relationship to them, whether there is a will, whether there is property, and so on. Based on your answers, we generate a personalised checklist of everything you need to do, in the right order, with deadlines calculated from the date of death.

The questionnaire adapts as you answer. If the person was under 18, we skip pension and probate questions and include the Children's Funeral Fund. If you are in Scotland, we show Confirmation instead of Probate and extend the registration deadline to 8 days. If you are Muslim or Jewish, we prioritise funeral arrangements for burial within 24-48 hours.

We do not collect, store, or share any of your personal information. Your answers and progress are saved only on your own device using your browser's local storage. We have no database, no user accounts, and no way to see what you enter.

We do not use advertising trackers, sell data, or share information with third parties.