The Willow Foundation is a national charity established in 1999 by Arsenal footballer and BBC sports commentator Bob Wilson and his wife Megs as a lasting memorial to their daughter, Anna, who died of cancer aged 31. 

If you're living with a life-threatening illness every day is precious and Willow definitely made one weekend for my late wife Heather really memorable. Whisked off to London on a train we had afternoon tea at the Dorchester, saw a west-end show and stayed in a lovely hotel. 

When you're dealing with the day-to-day effects of cancer, chemo, tablets and just getting on with things planning something like that would be unthinkable yet Willow are there to do it and give you a wonderful break from all the rubbish. I cannot thank this charity enough. 

WAY is a UK charity that offers peer-to-peer support network for anyone who's lost a partner before their 51st birthday - married or not, with or without children, inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, race or religion.

Losing Heather was horrible and WAY has been a life-saver for me. Finding people of a similar age who just "get-it" and giving me the ability to "find my tribe" was amazing and worth it's weight in gold.

When I joined WAY it supported roughly 1,500 young widows every year. 10 years on it now supports over 4,700 with peer-to-peer support, events around the country, a free legal and counselling telephone line, plus campaigning and many other services related to being a young widow.