Winchester MBU

Winchester's MILES FOR MUMS AND BABIES

Fundraising for APP
£800
raised of £750 target
MILES FOR MUMS AND BABIES, 19 October 2022
APP

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RCN 1139925
We provide information and peer support to help women and families affected by PP

Story

To raise awareness for Action on Post-Partum Psychosis, staff, mum and dads at Winchester Mother and Baby Unit will aim to run, walk and push buggies 428 miles during November to support Miles for Mums and Babies

This is the trip that one of our mothers and her family had to make to receive care for her mental health difficulties between her home and Winchester MBU. 

Take on the Miles for Mums and Babies Challenge in 2022!

Each mile you complete as part of the challenge reflects the journey mums, babies, partners and families travel to be together, whilst mums receive care in Mother and Baby Units.

  • 5 miles - 1 in 5 mums suffer some kind of mental illness in the perinatal period.
  • 25 miles - distance between the three London based MBUs
  • 51 miles - distance between the two Scottish MBUs (Edinburgh to Glasgow)
  • 318 miles - distance from most westerly MBU (In Exeter) to the most easternly (in Norfolk)
  • 452 miles - distance from the most northerly MBU, in Edinburgh, to the most southerly, in Dorset. Many mums and babies travel hundreds of miles to be together whilst mum is treated in hospital for a severe maternal mental illness. Dads, partners, families and friends may have to travel hundreds of miles back and forth to visit mum and baby.
  • 1400 miles - 1,400 mothers experience postpartum psychosis in the UK each year.

Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is a UK charity. We’re here to make sure mums, parents and families are supported through postpartum psychosis – a severe, but treatable, form of mental illness that occurs after having a baby and affects 1400 new mums in the UK each year. We offer information and peer support, facilitate ground-breaking research, raise awareness and campaign for improved services. Our life changing peer support network helps women and families affected by postpartum psychosis feel understood, supported and less isolated.

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About the charity

APP

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RCN 1139925
Action on Postpartum Psychosis supports women and families affected by Postpartum Psychosis (PP) across the UK. We provide information and peer support, facilitate research into PP, raise awareness of this rare yet severe postnatal mental illness and campaign for improved services.

Donation summary

Total raised
£800.00
+ £173.75 Gift Aid
Online donations
£800.00
Offline donations
£0.00

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