Dying Matters Awareness Week events listing

27 April - 6 May - Free social media book giveaway 

28 April - Dying for a cuppa

2 May - 100 Ways to Say Goodbye: Creating a Goodbye Memorial for a Loved One, East Sussex

2 May - Dying Matters Awareness with Birmingham St Mary's Hospice

2 May - Fi Angel FEES Fund Children's Competition, online

2 May - Last Wishes: Live Your Legacy Virtual Tea Rooms, online

2 May - Free screening of 'The Gift' with directors Q&A, Everyman Muswell Hill, London

2-6 May - Tissue donation promotional event

3-15 May - York's Dead Good Festival, York

3 May - 'There's No Place Like Home?' End of Life Conference, Birmingham

3 May - The Victoria & Stuart Project Launch, Stourbridge

3 May - Durham City Death Café

3 May - Dying to Talk Café

3 May - Natural Death in Care Homes: The Line Between Non-Intervention and Neglect

3 May - Outside the Box - A Live Show about Death

3 May - LUHFT Dying Matters Awareness Week, Liverpool

3 May - Compassionate Communities, Rugby

3 May - Dying Matters Awareness, Birmingham City University

3 May - Dying Matters Awareness with Wheatfields Hospice, Leeds

3 May - Let's Talk About Loss

3 May - End of Life Partnership Drop-in Session, Winsford, Cheshire

3 May - End of Life Partnership Drop-in Session, Chester, Cheshire

3 May - Continuing Connection: Spiritual Will Workshop, online

3 May - Drop-in by Treetops Hospice, Derby

3 May - Penn Chambers Open Office and Coffee Morning, London

3 May - Dying Matters Awareness, South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

4 May - Home - film screening and Q&A with Sarah Outen MBE

4 May - Death Café, Lancaster

4 May - Outside the Box - A Live Show about Death

4 May - Funeral Director Open Event for the Care Sector, York

4 May - Extra Care Tea Party, Warrington

4 May - Exploring Volunteering in Palliative Care, online

4 May - Dying Matters Drop-in Events, Teignmouth

4 May - Dying Matters Awareness Week with Compton Care, Wolverhampton

4 May - Memorial Artist Demonstration and Coffee Morning, Altrincham

4 May - Are you in a good place to die?, Gloucestershire

4 May - Cuppa and conversation around death and dying

4 May - Create a Digital Memory Board, online

4 May - Preparing to Say Goodbye: guided conversations about end of life, online

4 May - Last Wishes: Live Your Legacy Virtual Tea Rooms, online

4 May - Samaritans and Healthwatch Shropshire Drop-in

5 May - Penn Chambers Solicitors Coffee Morning

5 May - Dying Matters Resources Fair, Wisborough Green

5 May - Dying Matters, Norwich

5 May - Dying Matters, Wymondham

5 May - Debbie and Alberta's North East London Death Café

5 May - CDAS InConversation with Dr Kami Fletcher and George Gumisiriza

5 May - Meet a Soul Midwife, Whitley Bay

5 May - Matters of Life and Death, online

5 May - Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Dancing with Death, online

5 May - In A Good Place To Die, Marsden

5 May - Supporting you to plan for the future, Holbeach

5 May - Death Chat at St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham

5 May - Dying Matters Awareness Coffee Morning, Wiltshire 

5 May - Why access and equity in advance care planning matters, Huddersfield

5 May - Good conversation starts here

5 May - End of Life Matters Marketplace, Guildford

5 May - Plan for your funeral: what do you want?, online

5 May - Poetry for Dying Matters Awareness Week, Hove

5 May - Let's Talk About Dying, Leicester

6 May - Preparing for end of life - Corringham, Essex

6 May - Dying Matters Celebration, Bury

6 May - Dying Matters, Bungay

6 May - Dying to Talk Café

6 May - Last Wishes: Live Your Legacy Virtual Tea Rooms, online

6 May - Book Club Discussion, Northampton General Hospital

6 May - End of life care: how to make your wishes known, Oswestry

6 May - The Swan Song Project: Music and Memories Session, Leeds

7 May - A conversation with Havens Hospices and friends

7 May - Reading Crematorium Open Morning

7 May - Tea, Cake & Conversation at Willow Row Barrow, Cambridgeshire

7 May - Dying for a Cuppa: the Workshop, Hove

7 May - York's Dead Good Festival Launch, York

7 May - York's Threshold Choir, York

7 May - Green Funerals in a Climate Emergency, York

7 May - Soul Midwifery, York

7 May - Funeral Planning Information, North Yorkshire

7 May - Johnny's Happy Place Grief Café

8 May - Poppy's at Fulham Green Meet

8 May - Befriending Your Own Death, York

9 May - Lindsay Banks: Medium, York

9 May - Death Cafe, York

10 May - Coffin Club North London

10 May - Time to learn, Essex

10 May - A Mindful Honouring of Loss Grief Circle, online

10 May - The Art of Memorialising Life Across The Ages, York

10 May - Experiences of Grief during COVID-19, York

10 May - Mourning and grief through time: from the Stone Age to the Victorians, York

10 May - War Memorials: the sociology of remembering the war dead, York

11 May - Leaving Well: Planning and preparing for end of life

11 May - Meet Independent Celebrants, York & Online

11 May - York Crematorium: Look Behind The Scenes, York

11 May - What Happens To Your Body After You Die?, York

11 May - Making Sense of Pet Death, York

12 May - The Art of Memorialising Life Across The Ages, York

12 May - Mindful Walking at Rossmoor Park, York

13 May - What is an End of Life Doula?, York

13 May - Self-Care Following A Bereavement, York

13 May - Playback Theatre on Loss, York

14 May - Coffin Club North London

14 May - Coffin Club Greater Manchester

14 May - Nutrition and Bereavement

14 May - Operation Hummingbird

14 May - Dead Good – A sensitive and life-affirming documentary, York

15 May - Taster session for The Adventures of my Life and Death workshop

15 May - A guided walk through the Victorian Cemetery

18 May - Planning ahead for an affordable funeral

24 May - Coffin Club North London

31 May - Coffin Club North London

2 May - Caffi Angau yn y Goedwig / Woodland Death Café

2-6 May - Dying Matters in Powys

3 May - Reflections on running an online death café

3 May - Specialist Palliative Care Team, Carmarthenshire

4 May - Listening and Having Tender Conversations with Dr Kathryn Mannix, online

5 May - Liminal Space: "What happens when we die?"

3 May - Advance Care Planning Cafe, Derry

4 May - Avdance Care Planning Cafe, Omagh

5 May - Creating a death literate society in Northern Ireland: Marie Curie NI

5 May - The Big Book Club

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief run Demystifying Death Week in Scotland between 2-6 May.

You can find out more about what they are planning, and events to support their campaign, by visiting the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief website.

30 April - Can You Really Choose To Die?

2 May - Memory Work Showcase with Ayrshire Hospice

3 May - Death Café: Guernsey