Event Details

Giving HOPE is a social enterprise based on the Lancaster University Campus that offers support boxes for mothers and babies facing potential legal separation at birth. We need volunteer help to prepare and package these boxes at a Packing Event on 29th November held in the Health Innovation Campus.

We need your help!

Come and help pack support boxes for women facing separation from their babies for the Giving HOPE project.

The HOPE Boxes are an innovation developed for women who experience separation from their babies due to safeguarding concerns. They have been co-developed with women with lived experience and underpinned by the Born into Care research carried out at Lancaster University. Our Born Into Care research demonstrates that nearly 3000 babies per year in England are subject to care proceedings within days of birth. Boxes are provided in pairs, one for mother, one for baby. The boxes hold various objects to offer support and preserve the connection between mother and child.

With the influx of new sites across the UK, the demand for HOPE boxes continues to rise. Your assistance in packing them is invaluable.

Join our packing event! Together, we aim to assemble 250 pairs of HOPE boxes for distribution for use by midwives and social workers across the UK. Whether you can spare just half an hour or stay all afternoon, your help will make a difference.

• Friday 6^th December 11am – 5pm at the Health Innovation Campus

We hope to see you there!

Giving HOPE Team