The event industry´s charity foundation, Meeting Needs, is to help 10 couples recover after suffering the loss of a baby. Meeting Needs is working with a specialist counselling programme charity called Petals that provides a free counselling service to support women, men and couples through the devastation of baby loss. Petals supports couples through all types of baby loss including miscarriage, termination for medical reasons, still birth and neonatal death as well as providing vital support to parents navigating pregnancy after loss. Grief, anxiety, depression and PTSD are all very common reactions to baby loss, leaving mothers to face an overwhelming and lonely future.
The £5000 funding provided by Meeting Needs will help 10 mothers and their partners with Petals providing one-hour online counselling sessions every two weeks.
Petals counsellors help couples to make sense of the impact of their loss on mothers, on relationships and on their futures and are specially trained to work through the grief and trauma of the experience.
Meeting Needs Vice-Chair Lene Corgan said: “We were approached to support Petals by an event industry professional who suffered baby loss and nominated the charity because of her positive experience. We love to receive this kind of nominations from within the industry.”
