The next Ambiguous Loss Awareness Day is on Sunday 19th July 2026

​We offer resources for support and continue our mission to build a world more compassionate and understanding of those who are experiencing ambiguous loss. Sign up to our newsletter to stay updated with our plans. To join in on social media, use the hashtags #AmbiguousLossAwarenessDay #ALAD[year].

2025

Our 10th Anniversary! We offered a special online event: EFT Tapping for Ambiguous Loss - coming together to acknowledge our grief and be in community. We also raised awareness of the many types of ambiguous loss through the #MyAmbiguousLossIs campaign.

2024

We launched an art competition to encourage creative expressions of ambiguous loss and grief - selected artworks are featured here. This also included a new page on using art for grief. We shared our All At Sea Report from the results of the Ambiguous Loss Survey in 2024.

2023

We ran a live webinar on What is Ambiguous Loss? and also focused on the natural world and how this can support us with ambiguous loss and grief. We created the new page​:

2022

The first Ambiguous Loss Awareness Day. Founded by Chloe Swinton of Ambiguous Loss UK as an annual date to raise awareness of ambiguous loss and to remember all those who may be 'missing' physically or psychologically.

HISTORY

The Ambiguous Loss UK website was registered and established on 19th July 2015, which is why we chose this date for the awareness day. It also happens to coincide with one of the many monumental ambiguous losses in history – the sinking of the Mary Rose on 19th July 1545. On this day, of the approximate 500 men who were lost at sea, only 35 survived. As a child living on the Isle of Wight, our founder Chloë Swinton, visited the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth ​and saw the 34m-long Tutor shipwreck. She has never forgotten the experience and tragic event that marked history, and is one of the reasons we relate our work to the theme of the sea.