This is the fourth time that I will have completed the Great North Run and am looking forward to it more than any other time.

I am running for Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity which until recently I knew very little about.

Each day in the UK 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. This is a statistic that is seeing no signs of decreasing, and behind each number is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby.

Here in the UK stillbirth is 10 times more common than cot death, which is why Sands is trying to raise awareness of this devastating loss and ask the question:

Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?

Please help me support this deserving charity by donating generously which will allow Sands to work towards the following aims:

Increased public awareness of how many stillbirths and neonatal deaths there are in the UK.

Recognition that stillbirth and neonatal death is a national problem and is not just one of those things.

A national strategy to reduce the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the UK

Funding for more research to improve understanding of why stillbirths and neonatal deaths happen and to identify high risk pregnancies and develop effective interventions 

 

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So please dig deep and donate now.