We were the UK’s Covid-19 charity. The community we built lives on.
Covid Aid has now closed as a charity. The award-winning support community we started continues as Our Covid Support Community, a peer-led space for people living with Long Covid or ME, and it is still free to join. If you are coping with a loss, or with Covid-19 in other ways, there is trusted help on our Find support page.
What Covid Aid was
Covid Aid launched in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, to support the people across the UK most affected by Covid-19. Our focus was on those living with Long Covid, and on people carrying grief and bereavement after the virus.
Over its life, the charity built a free, professionally managed safe space for people living with Long Covid, and for those grieving someone lost to the virus. We ran courses, live events and peer groups, brought together experts and people with lived experience, and worked alongside organisations including Asthma + Lung UK, Marie Curie and Cruse Bereavement Support.
We were a small charity that reached a great many people, and we are proud of the difference it made. The charity has now wound down. This site keeps its story and the tributes people left on our Covid Loss wall, and points the way to the community it created.
Our Covid Support Community
Our Covid Support Community is a peer-led space, run by its members for its members experiencing the effects of Long Covid (LC) and/or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).
- Free to join
- Aged 18 and over
- Peer support from people who understand
- Courses, live events and groups
Living with Covid, Long Covid, or a loss?
Covid Aid no longer provides advice directly. There are trusted organisations that offer current, maintained help, and the community offers peer support if you are living with Long Covid or ME. Start with whichever fits.
Peer support
Connect with others living with Long Covid or ME, free of charge.
Grief & mental health
Help after a loss, and support if you are struggling.