Join us at our Death Café
As part of National Grief Awareness Week 2026, we are inviting unpaid carers to join us for a Death Café at Wheatfields Hospice.
Date: Thursday 3 December 2026
Time: 2pm–4pm
Venue: Wheatfields Hospice, Grove Road, Headingley, LS6 2AE
To book your place, call our Support Line on 0113 380 4300.
What is a Death Café?
A Death Café is an opportunity to come together over tea and cake and have an open and honest conversation about death and dying.
The aim is to increase awareness of death and encourage people to make the most of their lives. There is no set agenda, objective or theme – the conversation is shaped by those taking part.
Death Cafés are discussion groups rather than grief support or counselling sessions. They provide a welcoming space for anyone who is curious or open to talking about death and dying in a respectful and life-affirming way.
Cake and refreshments will be provided.
What can I expect?
Death Cafés are always offered:
- On a not-for-profit basis
- In an accessible, respectful and confidential space
- Without any intention of leading people towards a particular conclusion, product or course of action
- Alongside refreshments, food and, importantly, cake!
You don’t need to have any previous experience of a Death Café or prepare anything in advance. The discussion is informal and led by the people attending.
About the Death Café movement
The Death Café movement was founded by Jon Underwood, who held the first Death Café at his home in 2011.
Since then, the movement has grown across the UK and around the world, helping to challenge taboos and encourage more open conversations about death and dying.
Jon died suddenly in 2017, but his legacy continues through Death Cafés around the world and their focus on talking openly about death while valuing living well in the present.
Book your place
This Death Café will be facilitated by Emma Pickering and Rebecca McClay from Carers Leeds.
To reserve your place, please visit Ticket Tailor.
