A bereaved families support charity is facing an uncertain future as its National Lottery funding is due to run out in three months.

Liverpool based Love Jasmine, which was set up to support bereaved parents by a couple whose six-year-old daughter died, has been supported by more than £255,000 in National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund money for the last three years.

However, this runs out in July this year and the charity’s application earlier this year to the Fund for further funding has been unsuccessful.

The charity says it needs to find nearly £90,000 to maintain current service levels of support, which includes offering counselling for parents.

It said it is “already overstretched” and earlier this year was forced to close its waiting list for counselling support.

“Because of the uncertainty it will mean that we will have to cut back services over the next few weeks to ensure that we can keep going,” said a statement from the charity’s founders Rob and Kathy Lapsley and its trustees.



They have pledge to “continue to work hard in bringing money in from other grant funders” and fundraising activities in the coming months.

It is also lobbying local MPs “to ask them to support us as we seek funding for our work with bereaved families”.

It will also look to generate income from its partnerships with the NHS.

Despite the NHS referring families to the charity over the last decade “we haven’t received a penny from them to help pay for the support that we provide. This has to change.”

It has also launched a JustGiving fundraising page.

Rob and Kathy Lapsley’s daughter Jasmine died while the family were on a holiday in 2014.

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