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This festive season, Petals is selling Christmas cards for the very first time. Two beautiful designs have been donated to the charity by Emily Hamilton Illustration and are now on sale via our shop. They come in bundles of 10 and have a gentle festive message inside,...

The theme of this year’s Baby Loss Awareness Week was psychological support for bereaved parents, and throughout October Petals has been busy talking to Ministers and MPs about just how important this topic is. Our Chief Executive Karen Burgess met with Health...

Over 260 buildings across the UK have been lighting up pink and blue for Baby Loss Awareness Week thanks to the collaborative efforts of the charities in the Baby Loss Awareness Alliance. Petals was delighted to contribute to this by organizing for several buildings...

Tomorrow (11 September 2019) we announce that Petals will temporarily be suspending our operations in Addenbrookes and the Rosie Hospitals as local NHS funding bodies are unable to meet the cost of the service. In the last year alone, Petals saw 320 clients in...

We’re delighted to have launched a new counselling service in Harlow.... Petals, the baby loss counselling charity, is opening a new branch of its service at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) today in Harlow. After seeing the devastating psychological impact of baby...

A ground-breaking new documentary about stillbirth – 'Child of Mine' – will be broadcast on Channel 4 during Baby Loss Awareness Week this year. The film follows 3 couples through their experience of baby loss and the journey they face afterwards. It has been produced...

Petals is an active and growing charity, and we are therefore looking to recruit a number of new trustees to support Petals as we go forward. Specifically, we are looking for someone to fill the roles of Treasurer and Legal Specialist. More information...

We're delighted to have launched a new counselling service in Oxford.... The service in Oxford was launched on Monday, 9th October, at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, which coincided with the beginning of Baby Loss Awareness Week. The proposal to expand to...

We are delighted to announce that Petals has just launched a counselling service in Ipswich... Petals was given the go-ahead to set up the service out of Ipswich Hospital after a Framlingham couple told their story to the CEO of the Trust, Nick Hulme. Emma & James...

We are so grateful to all those who are fundraising for Petals – and in so many different ways… there are cake sales, marathons, footgolf, Balls, parties, and now…..MUD!! Abbie Richards, her husband and her lovely friends signed up for the ‘Tough Mudder’ event on...