Cake Sale, Tombola and Raffle

We are holding our annual Cake Sale, Tombola and Raffle.
There will be a wide range of homemade sweet treats and a few savoury, from large cakes for sharing or individual treats. As well as a tombola and raffle with very kind donations from local businesses and individuals -MASSIVE THANK YOU !!
The event is to support and raise awareness of:-
Baby Loss Awareness Week
and
Twinkling Stars Appeal for Kettering General Hospital
At the moment the hospital’s bereavement room is situated within the labour suite itself – where parents with normal births are celebrating their new arrivals. This feels inappropriate at times of great sadness for bereaved families and can add to the sense of loss that they already feel.
The Trust’s facilities currently consist of:
* The Snowdrop Room - A standard delivery room within the Delivery Suite that is our only current facility for bereavement care. Across the corridor is small room which contains a refrigerated cold cot where a baby’s body can be kept. Behind the room there is small courtyard garden developed with the support of Northamptonshire SANDS (the Stillborn and Neonatal Death Charity).
* A shared sitting room within the Delivery Suite. This family room is used primarily by parents having normal deliveries and who are celebrating. Bereaved families currently have to share the use of this room with them.
The aim is to build a new bereavement suite - adjacent to the Delivery Suite but entirely separate from it - where families who have suffered a loss can get quiet, compassionate and supportive care and spend time with their loved ones.
It would create:
A new bereavement room with ensuite bathroom and an appropriate cold cot.
A new Family Room just for bereaved families to use entirely separate from the delivery suite. This would be a place where family members could meet, wait in, and use in support of bereaved parents. It would have a kitchenette, sofa bed, and be a quite private place.
Quiet Room and office – This would be a place where the bereavement midwives are based which would have the dual purpose of being a quiet room where bad news could be communicated or where post mortem results could be discussed. The bereavement midwives currently share offices in the Delivery Suite.
Head of Strategic Corporate and Community Fundraising, Jayne Chambers, said: “This is about the hospital doing everything that it can to ease some of the pain that families feel when they lose a baby”
"We know our current facilities need to be significantly improved and we are seeking the help of our local community in changing this.
“It is about providing the sort of care you would want to have for yourself, or for other members of your family, if this kind of tragedy were to befall you.”
Families say a new separate bereavement suite would really help, and I have to 100% agree to this, sadly the facilities are in need of improvement.
Over the past 4 years we have been kindly supported by Woodford Community and Sports Club, local businesses and individuals in making the event successful and hope to do it again this year.