Hearts & Minds Blog

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

Your voice is vital! The Hearts & Minds Partnership is running a series of healthcare professional focus groups in October hosted by our external evaluation consultant. Following great engagement and participation in last year’s focus groups (thanks all who attended!) we are looking for midwives, health visitors, perinatal specialist teams and GPs to take part this time round. Your focus group contributions will help us review how perceptions may have shifted since last year

What's working well and where are the areas for development at Hearts & Minds? The Hearts and Minds Partnership, supported by The National Lottery Community Fund, is continuously shaped by feedback from the broader perinatal mental health community. As part of our ongoing evaluation, which runs in parallel to our programme of work, we’d like to share the findings from our Interim Evaluation Report. In the spirit of the Partnership, this means recognising successes, but also

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