My Story

Many of you will know that our first son Joel died in September 2012, shortly after he was born. We received a huge amount of support from Sands to help us through what was undoubtedly the toughest time we've ever gone through as a family. We would like to raise some money to ensure that this support can continue to be there for others. 

I will be running 5k each day of Baby Loss Awareness week (9th-15th October) and we will finish with a family 5k run in Joel's memory on Saturday 16th October. Anything you could donate in support of Sands would be greatly appreciated - thank you! 

The pandemic has been devastating both for families going through baby loss as well as for the charities supporting them, as many of their main fundraising events were cancelled.

Your donations will help to support a free helpline for bereaved parents, memory boxes to allow families to create memories of their babies in hospital as well as funding vital research into how stillbirth and neonatal death can be prevented in future. 

Thank you so much for your support.

Victoria, Mark, Gabriel + Nicolas