The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is a UK-wide charity and network of 130 member organisations, parents, and clinicians dedicated to ensuring all women and families impacted by perinatal mental health problems have access to high-quality, compassionate care and support. We bring the maternal mental health community together and make change happen by combining the power of real-life experience with clinical and professional expertise.
Women, babies, and their families are suffering right now. We won’t stop until every woman and family in the UK gets the perinatal mental health care and support they need, before, during and after pregnancy.
We speak with one voice. United by our core aims, we work collectively to maximise impact. We harness our shared expertise, energy and passion to drive the change needed for the mental health needs of women and their families in the perinatal period.
The MMHA has an active, dynamic, and forward-thinking membership. We strive to work collaboratively to create essential tools and spaces to raise awareness of perinatal mental health problems and help drive the much-needed changes for the mental health needs of women and their families in the perinatal period to be met.
Independent evaluation has demonstrated that in the last 10 years, MMHA campaigning has played a key role in helping secure much-needed changes for women and families impacted by perinatal mental illness.
The MMHA was founded in 2011 by people with lived experience and organisations who understood the impact of perinatal mental problems and had a commitment to improving the lives of women and their families. Today, we have evolved into a powerful and collaborative alliance supported by a small, dedicated staff team and board.
Our staff and trustees are guided by a strong set of core principles.
The Alliance has worked together for 10 years with a shared determination to improve mental health support for women and families across the UK.
Find out more about our history and MMHA’s impact.
With thanks to our funders, Comic Relief, The National Lottery, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, and the Mental Health Foundation for making our work possible.
We are also fortunate to work with brilliant corporate partners to raise awareness of perinatal mental illness, educate the general public, and create change for women, birthing people, babies and families now and in the future.
Our members' meetings and 'Listen and learn' meetings for 2024 have kindly been sponsored by our long-term IT provider, Qlic IT.
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