8 March 2019

New project in South Wales

APP was delighted to be awarded a grant from Mind and Agenda’s Women Side by Side Programme for a one-year project in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area of South Wales. The South Wales ActiononPP project will help us to:

  • Set up a monthly face-to-face peer support group in the Aneurin Bevan Health Board region, but open to women from across South Wales
  • Train and support a group of South Wales peer support volunteers
  • Network with other agencies and develop methods of engaging and supporting women with PP, particularly women experiencing multiple disadvantage.
  • Translate our patient information guides into Welsh.
  • Raise awareness of PP in the region, amongst health professionals and in the media.
  • Support women who are recently diagnosed and recovering, women at risk of developing PP and women who may have experienced PP many years ago but who are still experiencing the effects

We hope that through this project we can build and support an active community of volunteers in the region to support women and families affected by PP and to work towards real change in how PP is understood and treated in the region. Alongside this grant, we will be looking for opportunities to train health professionals throughout Wales and campaign for change, including for a mother and baby unit.

APP will be looking for two people to work with us (part-time) on this project, if you’d like to find out more about the project, or to be notified when we advertise the roles, please email us.

19 February 2019

Singing, celebration, spoken word and sisterhood!

We are delighted to announce the first Music 4 Mums event for 2019! Taking place on Friday 29th March'Music 4 Mums' is an evening of singing, celebration, spoken word and sisterhood. Featuring a stellar line up of female artists and special choral performances by Kings Place Choir, Great Ormond Street Staff and Parent Choir and Choir Baby, a choir for new Mums and Dads.

"This event will raise money for APP, and launch their ‘Music 4 Mums’ campaign for 2019. This campaign aims to celebrate mums with musical events all over the country, raising awareness of the need for adequate maternal mental health care services in every area of the UK, and raising much-needed funds to support APP’s vital work supporting women and families affected by postpartum psychosis....This event is an opportunity for people to come together in support of each other, lending their voices to the voiceless and helping to stamp out the dangerous stigma attached to motherhood and mental health, whilst raising funds for Action on Postpartum Psychosis.

Please add your voice to this important conversation by coming along. Every scrap of awareness and funding will go towards helping a Mum get back on her feet so she can enjoy her new baby and hold onto the future she deserves."

You can book tickets online via Eventbrite here £15 per ticket + booking fee, or find out more via the Facebook event page here.

A very big thank you to everyone involved, we can't wait to come along and experience a fantastic night!

30 January 2019

APP at this year's Royal Parks Half!

APP are looking for two enthusiastic runners to take part in this year's Royal Parks Half Marathon on 13th October 2019, could it be you?!

This stunning central London Half Marathon, takes in some of the capital's world-famous landmarks on closed roads, and four of London's eight Royal Parks - Hyde Park, The Green Park, St James's Park and Kensington Gardens.

The award-winning event was set up as an annual fundraising initiative, raising sustainable funds for the Royal Parks to support London’s eight Royal Parks, and enabling charities of all sizes to be involved in a major challenge event.

If you would like to run the Royal Parks Half Marathon and raise some much needed funds for APP at the same time please get in touch with us via fundraising@www.app-network.org Thank You!

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19 December 2018

Thank You to Some Voices!

APP took part in three amazing and emotional nights at the Some Voices Speakeasy events at The Troxy, London on 10th, 11th and 12th December. Some Voices were raising money in aid of APP in memory of a member of their choir who tragically lost her life to Postpartum Psychosis earlier this year.

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10 December 2018

Vicky & Anya trek Cambodia!

Last month APP Media Advisor Vicky Jepson and ex-BBC colleague Anya Francis completed their trek through Cambodia, celebrating life and fundraising for APP and UCLH charity respectively.

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21 November 2018

Hobby Horses Race Night at Jaguar Land Rover!

A huge thank you to VP&S, a department within Jaguar Land Rover, who hosted a charity fund raising event on Friday 9th November and raised much needed funds for APP!

"We raised £1120, which was split between The Marston Green Lions, who ran the evening for us, Brain Tumour Research and Action on Postpartum Psychosis. The evening took the format of horse racing - the main difference being the horses were hobby horses! There were seven races, containing six horses each; there was an opportunity for race goers to ‘buy and own’ one of the 42 horses, and if your horse won – you got half of the auction money, the other half going to the charities. The purchasing of horses, was a quiet affair for the first couple of races, but it soon gathered pace, with the six horses in the final race, being auctioned off for the princely sum of £167 in total. We had a raffle, which raised a considerable amount of money too.

Thank you to Solihull Moors FC for providing us with the room for the event and to all those, who sponsored races, supplied raffle prizes and made monetary donations."

And it looks like they had a really fun evening!

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