Bel Mooney references the Sands Garden at the National Memorial Arboretum in her Daily Mail column, after she visited while attending a conference for the Child Funeral Charity.

In January 1976 she wrote a deeply personal article for the Guardian newspaper about the experience of having a stillborn child. This article was to have an emmense and far -reaching effect which directly led to a shift in the awareness of how to treat those effected by stillbirth as well as the foundation of the Stillbirth Society, later to become Sands. 

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