Sue Randall, executive manager for Child Bereavement UK, which has 69 staff and whose hundreds of volunteers put in 17,500 hours last year, said: "The Prince has been a brilliant patron and he’s done all sorts to support us as well as being extremely helpful.
Prince William makes heartbreaking admission about grief on moving visit Prince William has opened up about coping with grief, saying the hardest thing is "finding the words for how you actually feel".
The Prince of Wales spoke to teenagers receiving help after losing parents and grandparents during a visit to Britain's leading child bereavement charity.
During the visit, the prince met support staff, management and members of the fundraising team including Clayton Wilson, a 16-year-old amateur boxer.
Meeting the charity's bereavement counsellors and finding out some of them drew on their own experiences of grief to help others, he said: "It’s important to feel there’s a bond.