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About Sands

Sands is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. We operate throughout the UK, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby, working to improve the care bereaved parents receive, and promoting research to reduce the loss of babies’ lives.

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  • Our work
  • How your support makes a difference
  • Who we are
  • News and media
  • Baby death: current picture
  • Your Privacy

Latest news

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Sands takes tiny steps with Poco Nido to help save babies' lives

Sands is delighted to announce a new partnership with Poco Nido, who are an award-winning British brand who make footwear...
Posted 11 February 2019
Sam

Bereaved mother’s new book explores the death of a baby for younger children

A bereaved mother from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire has produced a new children’s picture book called In the Stars. Sam...
Posted 4 February 2019
Whittington Hospital staff

Sands backs Government plan to halve stillbirths and neonatal deaths by 2025

Sands welcomes the new NHS Long Term Plan in England, setting out its priorities for the next 10 years, including...
Posted 18 January 2019

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© 2018 Sands (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)
Charity registration number 299679. Company Limited by Guarantee Number 2212082  •  Scottish Charity Registration Number SC042789
Registered address: Victoria Charity Centre, 11 Belgrave Road, London, SW1V 1RB

  • About Sands
    • Our work
      • Our mission and strategy
      • Supporting families
      • Working with professionals
      • Research
      • Fewer baby deaths
    • How your support makes a difference
      • Discover our impact
      • Timeline: 40 years of support
    • Who we are
      • Why Sands exists
      • Staff
      • Trustees
      • Ambassadors
      • 40th anniversary #Sands40
      • Jobs
      • Finances
      • Tell us what you think
      • Become a member
      • Annual General Meeting
    • News and media
      • Latest updates
      • Blog
      • Sign up for e-news
      • Spotlight on Sands
      • Information for journalists
      • Media coverage
      • Videos
    • Baby death: current picture
      • Why babies die?
        • Reports
        • Our views
    • Your Privacy
      • GDPR Podcasts
      • Update your contact preferences
      • Photo and video consent
      • Support groups: update your contact preferences
  • Support for you
    • How we offer support
      • Helpline
      • Bereavement support app
      • Local support groups
      • Online community
      • Family support pack
      • Memory box
      • Bereavement support
      • Useful links and organisations
    • Remembering your baby
      • Share your story
      • Your stories
      • Sands garden day and remembrance event
      • Lights of Love
  • Get involved
    • Do it for Sands
      • #Challenge15
      • Skydive for Sands
      • Bake for Sands
      • Coffee Morning for Sands
      • Walk a Mile in My Shoes
      • Snowflake Bake
      • Mistletoe Memory Walk
    • Sands United FC
    • Sands Campaigns
      • Finding the Words
      • Sands Awareness Month
      • Wave of Light
      • #15babiesaday
      • Baby Loss Awareness Week
      • Become a Sands campaigner
    • Fundraising
      • Register your fundraising
      • Organise your own event
      • Fundraising events
      • Other things you can do
      • Support a Sands Group
      • Fundraising resources
      • Fundraising Q&As
      • Fundraising stories
      • Contact the fundraising team
    • How your company can help
      • Ways of working with us
      • Nominate Sands as your company's Charity of the Year
      • Current partners
    • Volunteer with Sands
      • Sands Befrienders
      • Share your experience
      • Become a Befriender
      • Volunteer with a Sands Group
      • Start a new Sands Group
      • Join our volunteer events team
      • Knit for Sands
      • Get involved in research studies
      • Networking Events
      • Volunteer Stories
    • Membership
    • Donate
      • Give in Memory
      • Gus' Appeal
      • Make a donation
      • Regular giving
      • Other ways to give
      • Leave a gift in your Will
      • Give in celebration
      • Gift Aid
      • Order collection envelopes
    • Projects
      • Local Projects
      • Projects in progress
  • Professionals
    • Bereavement care
      • Tools and resources
      • Health professionals order form
      • The Sands Guidelines
      • Resources for supporting parents
      • PMRT Engagement letters
      • Audits of bereavement care
      • Sands post mortem consent package
      • Order memory boxes
    • National Bereavement Care Pathway
      • Evaluation of the National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP): Interim report (Wave two)
    • Training
      • Sands training days and events
      • In-house courses
      • Midwives
      • Student midwives
      • Multi-disciplinary groups
      • Doulas
      • Health visitors
      • Interpreters
      • e-learning module
      • Midwifery Teacher Materials
      • Endorsements and feedback
    • Networking and events
      • Bereavement Care Network
      • The Elaine Thorp Bereavement Care Award 2018-19
      • Transforming loss in Scotland: Reaching out to meet the needs of parents
      • Maternity Bereavement Experience Measure (MBEM) Project
    • Research
      • Studies we fund
      • Supporting research
      • Apply for research funding
      • Priority Setting Partnership
      • Stillbirth Clinical Studies Group
    • Fewer baby deaths
      • MBRRACE-UK
      • Safer care
      • Reviewing deaths
        • Each Baby Counts
        • National Perinatal Mortality Review
        • Engagement letters for parents (PMRT)
      • Our consultations with parents
      • Safer pregnancy
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