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      • Order memory boxes
      • Organisations we work with
    • Training and Consultancy
      • Consultancy Services
      • Sands training days and events
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      • Multi-disciplinary groups
      • Doulas
      • Health visitors
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© 2019 Sands (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)
Charity registration number 299679. Company Limited by Guarantee Number 2212082  •  Scottish Charity Registration Number SC042789 • We also operate in Northern Ireland
Registered address: Victoria Charity Centre, 11 Belgrave Road, London, SW1V 1RB

  • About Sands
    • Our work
      • Our mission and strategy
      • Supporting families
      • Working with professionals
      • Research
      • Fewer baby deaths
      • Organisations we work with
    • How your support makes a difference
      • Our Impact 2018/19
      • Our achievements
      • Timeline: over 40 years of support
    • Who we are
      • Why Sands exists
      • Staff
      • Trustees
      • Ambassadors
      • 40th anniversary #Sands40
      • Jobs
      • Finances
      • Tell us what you think
      • Become a member
      • Annual General Meeting
    • News and media
      • Latest updates
      • Blog
      • Sign up for e-news
      • Spotlight on Sands
      • Information for journalists
      • Media coverage
      • Videos
    • Baby death: current picture
      • Why babies die?
        • Reports
        • Our views
    • Your Privacy
      • GDPR Podcasts
      • Your contact preferences
      • Photo and video consent
      • Support groups: update your contact preferences
  • Support for you
    • How we offer support
      • Helpline
      • Bereavement support app
      • Bereavement support book
      • Local support groups
      • Online community
      • Memory box
    • Understanding why your baby died
      • Post mortem
      • Review, investigation and complaints
      • FAQs for bereaved parents
      • Useful links and organisations
    • Remembering your baby
      • Share your story
      • Your stories
      • Sands garden day
      • Forget me not garden
    • Coping at Christmas
      • Lights of Love
      • Winter Wishes
  • Get involved
    • Give the Gift of Support
    • Hearth of Hope
    • Sands Campaigns
      • #FindingYourWay2019
      • Baby Loss Awareness Week
      • Wave of Light
      • #15babiesaday
    • Do it for Sands
      • Sands Super Stars
      • #Challenge14
      • Skydive for Sands
      • Bake for Sands
      • Coffee Morning for Sands
      • Walk a Mile in My Shoes
      • Snowflake Bake
      • Mistletoe Memory Walk
    • Fundraising
      • Register your fundraising
      • Sands' Fundraising Promise
      • Organise your own event
      • Fundraising events
      • Other things you can do
      • Support a Sands Group
      • Fundraising resources
      • Fundraising Q&As
      • Pay in your Fundraising
      • Fundraising stories
      • Contact the fundraising team
    • How your company can help
      • Ways of working with us
      • Nominate Sands as your company's Charity of the Year
      • Current partners
    • Volunteer with Sands
      • MySands Portal
      • Sands Befrienders
      • Volunteer Awards 2019
      • Get involved with a Sands Group
      • Join our volunteer events team
      • Knit for Sands
      • Get involved in research studies
      • Working Together Days
      • Volunteer Stories
    • Membership
    • Share your news
    • Sands United FC
    • Conference & AGM 2019
    • Donate
      • Give in Memory
      • Always Loved Tributes
      • Gus' Appeal
      • Make a donation
      • Regular giving
      • Other ways to give
      • Leave a gift in your Will
      • Give in celebration
      • Gift Aid
      • Order collection envelopes
      • Sands Lottery
    • Projects
      • Completed Projects
      • Projects in progress
  • Professionals
    • Bereavement care
      • Tools and resources
      • Health professionals order form
      • The Sands Guidelines
      • PMRT Engagement letters
      • Audits of bereavement care
      • Sands post mortem consent package
      • Order memory boxes
      • Organisations we work with
    • Training and Consultancy
      • Consultancy Services
      • Sands training days and events
      • Midwives
      • Student midwives
      • Multi-disciplinary groups
      • Doulas
      • Health visitors
      • Interpreters
      • e-learning module
      • Midwifery Teacher Materials
      • Endorsements and feedback
    • Research
      • Our Studies
      • Supporting research
      • Apply for research funding
      • Priority Setting Partnership
      • Stillbirth Clinical Studies Group
    • Fewer baby deaths
      • MBRRACE-UK
      • Safer care
      • Reviewing deaths
        • Each Baby Counts
        • National Perinatal Mortality Review
        • Engagement letters for parents (PMRT)
      • Our consultations with parents
      • Safer pregnancy
    • National Bereavement Care Pathway
      • Evaluation of the NBCP: Final report (Wave two)
      • NBCP Scotland - Early adopters
    • Networking and events
      • Transforming loss conference
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