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Sister Circle - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector

My Birth Support CiC - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector

Proud 2 b Parents - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector

Bourne This Way - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector

The Queer Parenting Partnership - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector

Kids Matter - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Kids Matter was set up in 2017 Where are you based? Leicester What services do you offer and who do you support? Kids Matter partners with local organisations and churches to run evidence-informed, accessible parenting programmes in communities and in prisons. The programme equips mums, dads and carers facin

The Mamahood Space CiC - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? The Mamahood Space was set up in January of 2023 Where are you based? Wolverhampton and Birmingham What services do you offer and who do you support? Maternal mental health support, creative journal workshops, family workshops, Mamas' coffee morning. I support Moms going through motherhood. Whethe

Koala North West - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector. What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Koala North West - we set up in 2020 Where are you based? Our hub is based in Wirral and we are also based in Ellesmere Port, Neston, Chester & Liverpool. What services do you offer and who do you support? We offer a peer support service across Cheshire & Merseyside for parents with a child under the

Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector

B3 - Bumps, Birth & Belonging CIC - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? The name of our organisation is B3 -Bumps, Birth and Belonging CIC and we set up in February 2023. Where are you based? We are based in Thurrock, Essex. What services do you offer and who do you support? We offer culturally relevant group and 1:1 perinatal peer support for women and fam

Get Me Out The Four Walls (Norfolk) - Our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Get Me Out The Four Walls was created in 2015 as a community-based peer support service, with the aim of preventing parents feeling isolated and lonely during the first years of parenthood. The organisation went on to become a registered Charity in 2018, dedicating their service to t

Mothers Uncovered (Brighton & Hove) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Mothers Uncovered was set up by Maggie Gordon-Walker (who is answering these questions) in 2008 as a project for the arts and wellbeing charity Livestock, which she had co-founded the year before. What prompted you to set up in the first place? When I became a mum, I felt so lonely a

Happy Mamas (Solihull) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Happy Mamas was set up in February 2020 What prompted you to set up in the first place? After the birth of my second child, I experienced a range of mental health challenges and was surprised to find a lack of support for new mums within the community. I was determined that this should change. Wi

Frome Birth Talk (Somerset) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Frome Birth Talk . We started raising money for a counselling service in 2017 and were established as a charity in November 2017 What prompted you to set up in the first place? Karen Patrick, a midwife at Frome Birth Centre, realised that an existing counselling service for users of Frome Com

DCPP (Derby) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Derby Community Parent Programme CIC (DCPP). The programme was established in 2016 and previously sat within another organisation. After some wider changes and the programme growing from strength to strength, DCPP ‘lifted and shifted’ to become an independent community interest company in June 2021. What p

Mamas Matter (Harrogate) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector A woman is sitting down and laughing and there is a baby playing in the foreground What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? Mamas Matter CIC . I started running classes in 2018 and fairly quickly knew that working on a non-profit basis felt right and became registered as a community interest company in 2019. What prompted you to set u

Lily Mae Foundation (Solihull) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector In Baby Loss Awareness Week, we speak with Amy Jackson from The Lily Mae Foundation about their work supporting families who experience stillbirth, neonatal death, miscarriage or a termination for medical reasons. What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? The Lily Mae Foundation was set up in 2010 Following the stillbirth of our

Shine PND Support (Gloucestershire) - our regular spotlight on a grassroots VCSE organisation in the perinatal mental health sector What is the name of your organisation and when did you set up? I set up Shine PND Support 7 years ago, it started very small and has now grown and spread! What prompted you to set up in the first place? Following the birth of my daughter Eliza (who is now 14!) I was suddenly and from nowhere struck down with severe postnatal depression and anxie