Join Us for a Death Café at Wheatfields Hospice

Take a pause from the everyday and join us for tea, cake, and honest conversation about life and death.
This gentle, welcoming event offers a safe space to share thoughts, listen to others, and reflect on what truly matters — helping us all make the most of our lives.

📅 When: Thursday 4th December 2025, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

📍 Where: Sue Ryder – Wheatfields Hospice, Grove Road, Headingley, LS6 2AE

Parking:
Parking is available within the hospice grounds, with additional on-street parking on Grove Road and Alma Road. There are a limited number of accessible and electric charging spaces.

When you arrive, please follow the path through the gardens to the main doors. Turn left and follow the signs for “DTU” — this path will lead you to accessible doors where we will meet and greet you for the session.

📞 How to Book

Places are limited to 25 participants.


To reserve your place, please contact the Carers Leeds Advice Line on 0113 380 4300.

👥 Who Can Attend

This session is open to all unpaid carers and people caring for a family member or friend with a life-limiting condition, as well as staff supporting carers and their families.

💬 What Is a Death Café?

A Death Café is a welcoming space where people – often strangers – come together to eat cake, drink tea, and talk about death. The aim is simple: to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.

A Death Café is a group-directed discussion about death and dying, with no set agenda, objectives, or themes. It is not a grief support or counselling session, but rather a place for open, honest, and life-affirming conversation.

Discussions at a Death Café are free-flowing and inclusive – touching on whatever feels relevant to those present. Anyone curious and open to talking about death and dying is welcome.

🌍 Context: The Death Café Movement

The Death Café movement was founded by Jon Underwood, a British man who hosted the first Death Café from his home in 2011. His vision was to change the culture around death and dying by encouraging open conversation.

Since then, the movement has grown internationally, helping to break taboos and normalize talking about death as a part of life.

Sadly, Jon died suddenly in 2017, but his legacy continues, inspiring people worldwide to reflect on mortality and embrace living well in the present moment.

✨ Death Cafés Are Always Offered

  • On a not-for-profit basis

  • In an accessible, respectful, and confidential space

  • With no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product, or course of action

  • Alongside refreshing drinks and nourishing food – and cake! 🍰

🤝 In Partnership With

Sue Ryder, Wheatfields Hospice as part of National Grief Awareness Week 2025. This year’s theme is Growing With Grief.

Learn more: The Good Grief Trust – National Grief Awareness Week

Facilitated by:

  • Emma Pickering & Rebecca McClay – Bereavement Practitioners, Carers Leeds

  • Hannah McGougan – Community Engagement Co-ordinator, Wheatfields Hospice