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Celebrating International Women’s Day and the Doula UK Access Fund

International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's, and is growing annually from strength to strength. This year we would like to mark IWD with a celebration of the Doula UK Access Fund. Doula UK itself began in 2001, as a network of doulas, run voluntarily by doulas. Our … [Read more...]

Access Fund Donation

You can donate to the Doula Access Fund by filling in the amount of your donation above. You will have the options to pay by bank transfer, cheque or online payment. If you pay by cheque or bank transfer, and want to donate directly to the Access Fund, please make sure that you make it clear … [Read more...]

Doula Access Fund

The Doula Access Fund (originally the Hardship Fund) was created in 2008 to cover the expenses of Doula UK doulas volunteering to work with local clients in emotional, practical or financial hardship. The Fund was financed out of Doula UK's Membership income and from modest donations. Over time, … [Read more...]

Fundraise

Fundraise and help us provide life changing support for women and families in the childbearing year, regardless of circumstance, nurture the doula community and campaign for better support for UK families. Some ideas for fundraising activities you could undertake are: organising events - … [Read more...]

Announcement re: Hardship Fund

After careful consideration of your feedback on the Hardship Fund, with many members expressing a desire to change the name, the Board and Management team are pleased to announce that it has been renamed the Doula Access Fund. We hope this will more accurately convey what the fund is for … [Read more...]

On being an independent doula and a proud member of Doula UK

Sophie Messager is a birth and postnatal doula based in Cambridge. Sophie also offers one-to-one birth preparation, antenatal breastfeeding preparation, sling consultations, optimal fetal positioning/spinning babies techniques, as well as workshops for doulas and parents, Closing the Bones massage … [Read more...]

Third party doula projects & support for families

Members of Doula UK provide doula support to families, on a self employed basis. Our important Access Fund project, which originated in 2008, has now been wound up and will reopen as an standalone charity in the near future, with a view to helping more families through better resourcing. If you … [Read more...]

PRESS RELEASE: Doula UK conference to focus on supporting survivors of trauma and abuse

In this its sixth year, the 2018 Doula UK conference will focus on how doulas and other birth and postnatal workers can support women who have experienced trauma or abuse. Keynote speaker, Kicki Hansard, drawing on the training she has completed with Penny Simkin, will talk about nine challenges … [Read more...]

Annual General Meeting

Members of Doula UK are invited to attend the 2017 Annual General Meeting on Saturday 23rd September 2017 2-6pm at the Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Black's Rd, London W6 9DT The planned agenda for the meeting is outlined below. The meeting will be a facilitated working session. Voting will be … [Read more...]

Fiona Gordon

My name is Fiona and I live near Towcester in Northamptonshire with my husband Jamie and three boys born 1999, 2001 and 2005 and two dogs. I trained as a Norland Nursery Nurse in 1985 and worked particularly with Mothers and new born babies. I then had a career change and trained as a fashion … [Read more...]