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A mum who received counselling from Petals after suffering a stillbirth shared her story in the Cambridge News in the hope of helping other families facing similar trauma in the future. Amelia Grant, of Milton, Cambridge, first became pregnant at the age of 29 in 2009...

Petals are pleased to announce that we have recently joined the following alliance. The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is a coalition of UK organisations committed to improving the mental health and wellbeing of women and their children in pregnancy and the...

It is with great pride and pleasure that we are able to announce that Petals now have a presence in the Rosie Maternity Hospital Cambridge. Delivering this much needed service from the Jane Thorley Counselling Suite, our counsellors are now able to support women or...

A new health campaign called Healthwatch has recently been set up by the UK charity, CSV. The aim is to get individuals and local groups from the community to become involved and voice their opinion on how they believe the local health care service could be improved....

For a limited time only (until 3rd May or when the pot of money runs out) you can double your monthly donation if you donate via Localgiving.com.  Localgiving's Spring for a Year campaign will match every £5-£10 monthly donation that is set up, allowing the Petals...

We are really grateful to Ursula, who held a 'cuppa and a cake' day for her friends last week, and managed to raise £200 for us in doing so! Ursula wanted to support the Petals charity as she had previously lost a baby during pregnancy.  In her words, she "was just...

The amazing efforts from our supporters continues! Tracy Hutchison, of Beach Babies Children's Nursery in Cambridge, decided to run the Cambridge half-marathon this year to raise funds for Petals - here she tells us all about it: "I started running 1.5 yrs ago after...

Now that we have launched our counselling service we are keen to increase our trustee numbers in order to help us keep up with the pace of growth of the charity, and to expand the breadth of experience on our board. We are therefore looking to recruit a number of new...

We are very pleased to be in receipt of an award of £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, which, alongside the other donations and grants we have received to date, has enabled us to confirm our launch date of 1st February 2013.  This money will fund 6 counselling...