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The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) has 130 members that support and advocate for mums, babies, and families, or represent the professionals who work with them in the perinatal period. MMHA members are essential to who we are, our collective voice.

Find out how to become a member, or email membership@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org if you have any questions.

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The Hearts and Minds Partnership

UK-wide

  • Local support
  • VCS

The Hearts and Minds Partnership is a collaboration of two England-based perinatal mental health charities and MMHA members: Acacia Family Support in the Midlands and Smile Group in the North West.

The Hearts and Minds Partnership focus on:

  • The creation of an England-wide interactive map of quality VCSE perinatal mental health services, to enable signposting to parents and healthcare professionals
  • The development of trusted spaces to share learning, make new connections and talk about the challenges we collectively face
  • The creation and delivery of dedicated training to support the practical realities of growing, developing and sustaining a VCSE perinatal service.

    How to get help from The Hearts and Minds Partnership

    The Human Milk Foundation

    UK-wide

    • Infant feeding
    • Research

    The Human Milk Foundation (HMF) is a charity that aims to ensure equitable access to milk bank services exist across the UK for families facing feeding challenges. The Hearts Milk Bank is now the UK's largest human milk bank, supporting over 50 neonatal units and hundreds of families in the community with access to specialist lactation support and donor milk after healthcare professional referral. The HMF also facilitates and supports research to create a truly evidence-based effective service.

    The International Marce Society

    Global

    • World maternal mental health
    • Research

    Dedicated to supporting research and assistance surrounding prenatal & postpartum mental health for mothers, fathers and their babies.

    The Marcé Society was formed at an International Conference in 1980. The purpose of that conference was to bring together different strands of research in puerperal mental disorders. It was recognised that there needed to be a forum to discuss puerperal mental illness in its broadest sense and a Society was formed. The Society was named after Louis Victor Marcé, a French psychiatrist who wrote the first treatise entirely devoted to puerperal mental illness, published in 1858.

    The principal aim of the Society is to promote, facilitate and communicate about research into all aspects of the mental health of women, their infants and partners around the time of childbirth. This involves a broad range of research activities ranging from basic science through to health services research.

    The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing

    UK-wide

    • Counselling
    • Information

    At The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing, our core belief is that mental health is just as important as physical health and that we all need mental health support. Whether that's because we're going through a mental health crisis or whether it's because we simply need to unpack things from our past. The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing prioritises mental health support which is accessible, trauma informed, culturally appropriate and free from financial, administrative or technical barriers.

    Our goal is to be the number one provider of equitable, free (or low cost) mental health support in the UK. We actively work to ensure we meet the needs of service users from diverse backgrounds and have multiple layers and strategies in place to capture potential vulnerabilities so that they can be addressed and accommodated. We understand mental health intimately with the majority of our team coming from direct lived experiences. Our service users come from all faiths, heritages and countries, and are matched with therapists within 10 days.

    For more information about The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing, to collaborate with us or for referrals and support - please get in touch with the team at hello@mywmentalhealth.org.uk.

    How to get help from The Mental Health Hub by MeYouWellbeing

    The Motherhood Group

    UK-wide

    • Policy
    • Inequalities
    • Counselling
    • Peer support
    • Doula
    • Legal support
    • Campaigning

    The Motherhood Group connects mothers through events, workshops and meet-ups. They create a safe space for mothers to share challenges, triumphs, questions and advice on their personal motherhood journey, and provide support and encouragement.

    How to get help from The Motherhood Group

    The Parent Rooms

    Northern Ireland

    • Classes
    • Peer support
    • Community

    The Parent Rooms (formerly We Are Pangs) aim to make sure every parent in Northern Ireland has access to support and services to help them improve and maintain their mental health.

    How to get help from The Parent Rooms

    The Patients Association

    UK-wide

    • Policy
    • Advocacy
    • Research
    • Campaigning

    The Patients Association is an independent patient charity campaigning for improvements in health and social care for patients.

    Uniquely for a charity with a remit covering all health and care issues, we work with patients directly: they are our members and supporters, and also the people who benefit from our help and advice services. Through our helpline we support thousands of people each year with their concerns and queries about the health and social care system.

    We also speak to government, the NHS and other stakeholders about patients' priorities and concerns, to ensure the patient voice is heard and acted upon.

    The Pelvic Partnership

    UK-wide

    • Helpline
    • Online support
    • Awareness
    • Information

    The Pelvic Partnership provides women and healthcare professionals with information about best practice for the treatment and management of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PGP), including the emotional impact, and to enable and empower women to access the right treatment.

    How to get help from The Pelvic Partnership

    The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK)

    UK-wide

    • Policy
    • Campaigning
    • Research
    • Children and young people

    The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) is a UK registered charity that raises funds for UNICEF’s emergency and development work around the world and advocates for lasting change for children worldwide. This includes, for example, working to change UK Government policies and practices that are harmful to child rights in the UK and internationally. UNICEF UK is one of 33 UNICEF national charitable organisations based in industrialised countries.

    In the UK, UNICEF UK works with the hospitals where children are born, the schools where children learn and grow, and the services that shape their lives, to make sure that every child has the same chance to shine.

    In 2020, we helped nine out of 10 maternity units across the UK, supporting around 600,000 new babies as they enter the world. Around 1.5 million children go to schools that are becoming Rights Respecting, building an environment where every child is safe, respected and nurtured. And we are working with local governments in all four nations of the UK to help make our cities and communities places where all children, especially the most vulnerable, feel safe, heard, nurtured and able to flourish.

    All over the world, including here in the UK, UNICEF promotes and protects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF works with partners and supporters to:

    - Advocate for and create change for children

    - Unlock resources for programmes for children

    - Promote children’s voices

    The Women's Institute (WI)

    UK-wide

    • Training
    • Campaigning

    The Women's Institute (WI) was formed in 1915 to revitalise rural communities and encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War. Since then the organisation's aims have broadened and the WI is now the largest voluntary women's organisation in the UK. The WI celebrated its centenary in 2015 and currently has 215,000 members in over 6,500 WIs.The WI plays a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities.
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