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Remembrance Page and Cards

 

We have a Remembrance Page and Remembrance Card scheme.  

 

If you would like to receive a card from Manchester Sands on the anniversary of losing your baby, please email us with his/her name(s) the  date you'd like to receive, and a postal address 

Also let us know whether you want your baby's name/date added to the Remembrance page on the website.

Email: Manchester@sands.org.uk

 

Baby Loss Awareness Week

October 9 -15

 

When we all work hard to increase awareness of stillbirth and neonatal death and the everlasting impact experienced when a precious baby dies during pregnancy, at birth or shortly afterwards.

https://www.sands.org.uk/

         

A Kindness That Repairs the World

Read more on how Jo and Paul from Manchester Sands helped fulfil the dying wish of a bereaved mother, feature in this newspaper story for Baby Loss Week.

Image of blue and pink baby loss pin.

Baby Loss

Awareness Week

October 9 - 15

About Us

We are the Manchester group of the national Sands baby loss charity.

 

We are all bereaved parents who support other bereaved parents in the Manchester area who have experienced baby loss, and we do so in a voluntary capacity.

We hold monthly evening meetings in-person and online.  Our in-person meetings are held in a community venue in  South Manchester and are hosted and run by volunteers. The meetings are informal and supportive, and all are welcome no matter when your bereavement occurred - whether recently or some time ago.

 

The meetings provide an often welcome opportunity to talk about and share your experiences and concerns with other individuals and couples who have perhaps experienced something similar - whether it's about what happened, how it happened, and how to cope. There is no  requirement to talk, and some come just to listen and to feel supported.

If you feel you would like some support, but can't face attending a meeting, please contact us and let us know what we can do to support you. We also offer support to individuals and couples.

We also have a remembrance page on our website and we send out remembrance cards on anniversary dates. 

If you would like more information about our meetings, the dates and venues or would like your baby or babies commemorated on our remembrance page and/or to receive a remembrance card,  please write to us, including your preferred method of being contacted, using the contact form.

Meetings

We are continuing to hold our monthly meetings in-person and online. Below are the dates of the next  meetings to July 2024.  The in-person support meetings take place at a venue in Old Trafford. Venue details and times are sent with the notice of the meeting to our email list.  For more information about our meetings, please go to our Meetings Page.

2023

In-person meetings, Old Trafford

All meetings 8.15pm - 10.00pm

Wednesday 11th October

Wednesday 8th November

Wednesday 13 December

Online meetings via Zoom.

All meetings 8pm - 9.30pm

Contact us by email if you want to attend.

Thursday 28th September

Thursday 19th October

Thursday 16th November

Thursday 21st December

2024

In-person meetings

All meetings 8.15pm - 10.00pm

Wednesday 10 January

Wednesday 7 February

Wednesday 13 March

Wednesday 10 April

Wednesday 8th May

Wednesday 5th June

Wednesday 10th July

Online meetings via Zoom.

All meetings 8pm - 9.30pm 

Contact us by email if you want to attend.

 

Thursday 18th January

Thursday 15th February

Thursday 21st March

Thursday 18th April

Thursday 16th May

Thursday 13th June

Thursday 18th July

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