As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of the second lockdown. I’m getting ready for my monthly supervision session, and a hot cup of tea is gently steaming on my desk. Counselling clients – people in unplanned pregnancies or who’ve lost a pregnancy – is challenging work. We’ve got to do it right, and… Read more »

The mums in the Littlehampton house in Link Four have been having regular Life Skills sessions in the garden with a volunteer. Life Skills sessions are all about learning self-confidence and how to live independently with their baby when they leave the house. The mums learnt how to: Mow the grass Trim a bush Weed… Read more »

Life congratulates Mrs Anne Ward a longstanding and dedicated Life volunteer who was named a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) for her services to the community in Burton. Mrs Ward, a midwife for 36 years and a school governor for 26 years, has also spent over three decades volunteering for Life…. Read more »

Life welcomes and urges Government support for a bill tabled yesterday by Maria Miller, MP seeking to protect women who are pregnant or on maternity leave from being discriminated against by employers. Ms Miller’s 10-minute-rule bill, the Pregnancy and Maternity (Redundancy Protection) Bill seeks to prohibit employers from making women redundant from the time they are pregnant… Read more »

An abused 13-year-old girl rings our Helpline. A mum in one of our Houses has a violent partner. A volunteer with learning disabilities is joining the team. How would you keep them safe? Life’s a national pregnancy support charity. So far in 2020, we’ve helped more than 30,000 people. A lot of the people we… Read more »