Help family find your accounts after death.
Share practical information - like utilities, insurance and pension providers - via app and in the booklet.
Order your Whenn pack for £19.99
Whenn makes death prep simple and normal for adults of all ages. Your Whenn pack arrives by post for you to complete together at home.
The A to Z of Whenn to do death prep
with Sarah Giblin on Youtube
This 60 second guide reminds us Whenn to do death prep. It’s in preparation for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2024. This year's theme is "The way we talk about Dying Matters".
Whenn’s founder, Sarah Giblin, believes talking about death practically, understanding who would be responsible for us after our death and helping them now by providing them with practical information is a great way to start the conversation.
Join Whenn’s founder Sarah Giblin for 60 second tips about Whenn to do do practical death prep in our everyday lives.
“Someone will be responsible for us after our death. Let’s give them a better starting point when the time comes.”
Sarah Giblin, Founder Whenn
It’s hard for us to know in advance exactly the information our executors and next of kin need after death.
Whenn takes you through it step by step.
How to use Whenn:
1) Order your Whenn pack. It arrives by post
2) Download the app and answer the practical questions to quickly add your suppliers to your Lists
3) Share your Lists with next of kin to reference after death
How can Whenn help?
Without the guidance of the person who has died, it can be hard to find who they hold accounts with, to close or transfer them, after death.
Whenn lets us each help next of kin after death with:
Completing information on a death certificate
Finding bank accounts
Finding phone, utility and wifi companies
Finding pension funds to end payments or pay to beneficiaries
Is Whenn a will?
Whenn helps with all the non-legal things next of kin and executors need to know after someone dies. Whenn is not a substitute for a will and it actually has no legal force.
Making a valid will, or having a civil partnership or marriage, is the only way to choose someone outside your immediate family to take legal responsibility for your belongings after death. Without a will, the UK legal system, and courts in England and Wales, define who can represent you after death.
Put your affairs in order in a paperless world.
We used to leave a set of paper documents for next of kin so that they know which bank accounts, pensions and utilities we have.
In our paperless, online world, we run our lives increasingly digitally. We switch banks, utility suppliers, wifi and TV contracts multiple times. Some accounts don’t have paper statements at all.
Add suppliers to Lists and share them with next of kin.
We may know our family and friends as people, but we don’t always know who their mobile phone provider or pension provider is.
To find these accounts after someone’s death, the first things next of kin need know is which companies they are. The hardest part is: we can’t ask the person who has died.
Whenn helps us note our suppliers and providers in Lists, and share this with our next of kin. We can choose to give to them access to our Lists at all times, or only to view after death is verified.
Whenn is a way of us helping our next of kin - guiding them at a difficult time - when we are no longer there.
Together, we’re making admin for the practical side of death simple and normal. Join us.
Sarah Giblin, Whenn Founder