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BBC Radio Essex: Sands welcomes MP's call to improve bereavement care in hospitals

Will Quince, the MP for Colchester, will today call for dedicated bereavement suites to be made available in every NHS...

Posted 2 Tachwedd 2015

Invitation to bereaved families to take part in NHS maternity review

Friday 6th November, Manchester / Friday 20th November, London An independent review of NHS maternity services in England is underway...

Posted 28 Hydref 2015

The Sun: Lily Allen speaks about a song she wrote for her baby son who died in 2010

Singer Lily Allen has revealed that the song she wrote for the film Pan is in memory of her baby...

Posted 28 Hydref 2015

OK online: Lily Allen reveals she wrote a song in memory of her baby son

Singer Lily Allen has spoken about a recent song she has written in memory of her baby son who died...

Posted 28 Hydref 2015

Huffington Post: Lily Allen Reveals Touching Pan Song, Something's Not Right, Was Written In Honour Of Stillborn Son

Lily Allen shared that her new song was written in memory of her son, who sadly died in 2010. While...

Posted 28 Hydref 2015

Digital Spy: Sands helps Hollyoaks with upcoming stillbirth storyline

Sands has recently been working with Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks on an upcoming storyline which will see character Mercedes McQueen’s...

Posted 24 Hydref 2015

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Sands unites with charities for hugely successful Baby Loss Awareness Week 2015

Last week Sands united with charities across the UK for the most successful Baby Loss Awareness Week yet. Culminating on...

Posted 22 Hydref 2015

Dumbarton and Vale of leven Reporter: Renton mum shares her stillborn daughter heartbreak to highlight Baby Loss Awareness Week

Bereaved mother Julie Campbell shares her personal experience of the death of her daughter Emily, who died in 2013, to...

Posted 21 Hydref 2015

Locals launch new Peterborough & Stamford Sands support Group for bereaved parents

Thousands of babies tragically die each year. In 2013, 5712 babies were stillborn or died soon after birth in the...

Posted 19 Hydref 2015

Winners of the Scottish Bereavement Care Awards announced

Sands is delighted to announce the winners of the Scottish Bereavement Care Awards, intended to improve the bereavement care offered...

Posted 15 Hydref 2015

Digital Spy: EastEnders star Rakhee Thakrar becomes Sands ambassador after Shabnam's stillbirth storyline

Digital Spy reports on actress Rakhee Thakrar becoming Ambassador for Sands after the recent storyline that saw her character Shabnam's...

Posted 15 Hydref 2015

Huffington Post: Learning Through Devastation: Surviving the Loss of a Stillborn Child

Bereaved Father Jonathan Bird shares his personal experience. He also speaks about what Baby Loss Awareness Week means to him.

Posted 13 Hydref 2015

Burnley Express: £1,200 raised in memory of tragic baby Dominic

Dominic was stillborn at full term in June this year and since then his mum Viki Shaw and dad Dan...

Posted 13 Hydref 2015

Closer: EastEnders star Rakhee Thakrar on stillbirth: ‘There’s no instruction book for grief’

Rakhee Thakrar - who plays Shabnam Masood in EastEnders - has spoken out about the complicated grief process of stillbirth...

Posted 13 Hydref 2015

Chester Chronicle: How Sands is helping bereaved parents

To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week the Chester Chronicle has written a piece to highlight support available from Chesterfield Sands.

Posted 12 Hydref 2015

BBC Radio Essex: Sands welcomes MP's call to improve bereavement care in hospitals

Invitation to bereaved families to take part in NHS maternity review

The Sun: Lily Allen speaks about a song she wrote for her baby son who died in 2010

OK online: Lily Allen reveals she wrote a song in memory of her baby son

Huffington Post: Lily Allen Reveals Touching Pan Song, Something's Not Right, Was Written In Honour Of Stillborn Son

Digital Spy: Sands helps Hollyoaks with upcoming stillbirth storyline

Sands unites with charities for hugely successful Baby Loss Awareness Week 2015

Dumbarton and Vale of leven Reporter: Renton mum shares her stillborn daughter heartbreak to highlight Baby Loss Awareness Week

Locals launch new Peterborough & Stamford Sands support Group for bereaved parents

Winners of the Scottish Bereavement Care Awards announced

Digital Spy: EastEnders star Rakhee Thakrar becomes Sands ambassador after Shabnam's stillbirth storyline

Huffington Post: Learning Through Devastation: Surviving the Loss of a Stillborn Child

Burnley Express: £1,200 raised in memory of tragic baby Dominic

Closer: EastEnders star Rakhee Thakrar on stillbirth: ‘There’s no instruction book for grief’

Chester Chronicle: How Sands is helping bereaved parents

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