The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is an award-winning charity and network of over 130 member organisations, parents, and clinicians dedicated to ensuring all families impacted by perinatal mental health problems have access to high-quality, compassionate care and support. We bring the perinatal mental health community together and make change happen by combining the power of real-life experience with clinical and professional expertise.
Women and birthing people, babies, and their families are suffering right now. We won’t stop until every 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 birthing people 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, birthing people, 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 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 over 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, The National Lottery Community Fund, Bernard Lewis Charitable Trust, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, King's College London, Pilgrim Trust, and Sigrid Rausing for making our work possible.
We are also fortunate to work with brilliant corporate partners, including Tommee Tippee, Lansinoh and Way Too Honest, to raise awareness of perinatal mental illness, educate the general public, and create lasting change for women, birthing people, babies and families.
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