Sands Impact Report 2024/25

About

Sands Helpline (three-year Helplines Standard accreditation renewed); Hospital Liaison Volunteers (110 HLVs across UK); Sands United Football Clubs; Starlight Walks (46 local walks); volunteer befrienders (online and in-person); memory and Muslim care boxes; Sands Wellbeing Journal; Amplifying Parent Voices events; Baby Loss Awareness Week; National Bereavement Care Pathway oversight and advocacy; research partnerships; workplace training resources (600,000 employees reached)

Key Metrics

Key Outcomes

• 100% of hospital trusts in England and hospital boards in Scotland now on the National Bereavement Care Pathway — a historic milestone; significant progress made in Northern Ireland and Wales toward the same standard
• First Sands Amplifying Parent Voices event held, bringing together bereaved parents from African, Caribbean and South Asian communities — groups who face the highest rates of baby death but whose stories often go unheard; several families subsequently shared experiences publicly through Sands' media channels
• New local support groups launched in Worcester, Leicester, Isle of Wight and Orkney; new Sands United football teams in Taunton, Derby, Chichester, Dumbarton, Durham and Stoke; 230 new knitters, 10 new Hospital Liaison Volunteers, 35 new in-person befrienders, 46 new Starlight Walks and 64 new parent speakers all in 2024/25

Geography

UK-Wide