Our Aspirations VIEW ALL
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Tree of Life Appeal – #DoTheTreePose challenge
This year, we are commemorating 10 years since our founder, Jo Edwards, set up Friends of Serenity following the loss of her own son, Luke, in 2013. We knew we had to do something special to commemorate the occasion and behind the scenes this year, we have been working to get a special project […]
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Reach for Rainbows
Our Rainbow boxes cost us between £45-£50 to create with each item carefully selected and wrapped by hand. In 2021 we want to Reach for Rainbows and we’ve created a fundraising campaign to help us do that. If you would like to donate to the campaign or run a fundraiser for this project just click […]
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Mama Academy Wallets
For the past two years, Friends of Serenity have funded 7500 Mama Academy Wellbeing Wallets for families in East Lancashire. MAMA Academy was set up in 2012 to help more babies arrive safely, as the UK has one of the highest stillbirth rates in the developed world. These Mama wallets would normally cost families £2 […]
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Rainbow Baby Boxes
Our newest project is creating Rainbow Boxes to give families following the birth of their Rainbow Babies. A rainbow baby is a baby born after a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss. We understand how challenging a Rainbow pregnancy can be and know that the birth of a Rainbow Baby may well be full of bittersweet […]
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The New Butterfly Suite is launched-June 10th 2015
(Article from the trust) The Mayor of Burnley, Cllr Liz Monk, was joined by staff from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust as she officially opened the new Butterfly Suite at the Central Birth Suite at Burnley General Hospital. The idea and the main drive for the Butterfly Suite came from Joanne and Mark Edwards and […]
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Medafore Scan Trainer
For many years East Lancashire hospital trust have been focused on trying to prevent stillbirths. We are aware that one of the preventable causes of stillbirth is babies that have not grown appropriately, intrauterine growth retardation or IUGR. Women who are at risk are referred for a scan. However, there is shortage both locally and […]
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Memory Boxes
‘Luke’s Angel Friend’ Memory boxes are to support families in collecting cherished memories of their baby, no matter what gestation they are born. These are put together by Joanne our founder. We were pleased to have delivered our first 10 of ‘Luke’s Angel Friend’ memory boxes to the hospital on Monday 23rd […]
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Serenity Suite Conversion-The project begins
The room that will become a 2nd Serenity Suite This photo is of the room which we are raising money for. Currently this clinical room is your basic delivery suite. Our hopes are to make this suite comforting for women who are ill or suffer loss during pregnancy. It will be used by parents who […]
£12987 Donated
Our Shop VIEW ALL
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Gift in Kind- Small Flower£0.00
If you cannot afford to donate £50 but would like you baby’s name adding to a blossom on the Tree of Life then please select this option. We will release 25 gifts in kind each quarter so please come back next quarter if there are none left. If you would like to include your baby’s […]
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£50 donation for flower name£50.00
We would like to offer the opportunity for you to add your baby’s name to our tree of life. If you would like to include your baby’s DOB too, please use DD.MM.YYYY format. Please select the colour blossom you would like and give permission for us to contact you in future about your blossom. Please […]
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Pay it Forward- £50 Flower£50.00
If you would like to pay forward a flower with name engraving for another family, you can select this option here. We will use these flowers to give to families who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford it. Follow this link for our FAQs.
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£1000 donation for large flower with name£1,000.00
We would like to offer the opportunity for you to add a message and your baby’s name onto a large flower to be added to the wall in the garden with our Tree of Life. If you would like to include their DOB please use the format DD.MM.YYYY Please select the colour blossom you would […]
News VIEW ALL
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Tree of Life Name Blossoms- FAQs
July 20, 2024About the Tree of Life What is the Tree of Life project? The Tree of Life project is a fundraising initiative launched by Friends of Serenity in 2023 to raise £50,000 for a 4-metre-high blossom tree sculpture. This permanent sculpture will be positioned in the outdoor courtyard space on the ground floor of Lancashire Women […]
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Tiffany’s Story
July 11, 2024When I found out I was pregnant I was over the moon and little did I think there could be so many problems to follow. I went for my 12 week scan which indicated problems as the neck measurement was bigger than it should be. I then had to have blood tests done. They told […]
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Run For Charity
July 30, 2023You can now sign up for a number of events through Run for Charity. There are all different kinds of events whether you want a fun inflatable, a run through Alton Towers, a giant bungee jump, or a duathlon. If you fancy something that isn’t on our list, you can go straight to the Run […]
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Our story- Baby R
July 30, 2023We had talked about having a baby from really early on in our relationship and we naturally got to a point where we both knew it was what we wanted to actually happen and started trying but without any pressure attached to it. The more our friends started to have babies, the more we realised […]
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10 years old!
April 18, 2023In May this year, Friends of Serenity will be 10 years old. It is hard to believe that a whole decade has passed since it all began. I’ve recently been collating photographs and news articles from over the years and looking back on some of our key events and fundraising activities. It has been emotional. […]
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Welcome to new trustee Lisa!
April 18, 2023The team at Friends of Serenity are small but mighty! We are all full-time working parents who put as much time and effort into the charity as possible. Sometimes it isn’t as much as we would like, and sometimes we find a way to cram in a few productive sessions. We recently asked one of […]
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Share your story- Meredith & Michael
July 8, 2022A letter to Michael To my sweet boy, It had been over a year of trying with two miscarriages and no answers so we stopped tracking and trying about a month before the night I found out you were there. I was going out with your Aunt’s so I took a test just to […]
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Jacob and Emily’s Story
March 8, 2021Emma is mummy to Jacob who has Mosaic Trisomy 8, this is their story: When I was pregnant the doctors found an increased nuchal behind Jacob’s neck on our 12 week scan. I had the screening for Down’s Syndrome which came back clear although the doctors said they couldn’t rule out a […]
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VIEW ALL
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Tree of Life Appeal – #DoTheTreePose challenge
This year, we are commemorating 10 years since our founder, Jo Edwards, set up Friends of Serenity following the loss of her own son, Luke, in 2013. We knew we had to do something special to commemorate the occasion and behind the scenes this year, we have been working to get a special project […]
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Reach for Rainbows
Our Rainbow boxes cost us between £45-£50 to create with each item carefully selected and wrapped by hand. In 2021 we want to Reach for Rainbows and we’ve created a fundraising campaign to help us do that. If you would like to donate to the campaign or run a fundraiser for this project just click […]
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Mama Academy Wallets
For the past two years, Friends of Serenity have funded 7500 Mama Academy Wellbeing Wallets for families in East Lancashire. MAMA Academy was set up in 2012 to help more babies arrive safely, as the UK has one of the highest stillbirth rates in the developed world. These Mama wallets would normally cost families £2 […]
£613 Donated -
Rainbow Baby Boxes
Our newest project is creating Rainbow Boxes to give families following the birth of their Rainbow Babies. A rainbow baby is a baby born after a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss. We understand how challenging a Rainbow pregnancy can be and know that the birth of a Rainbow Baby may well be full of bittersweet […]
£698 Donated -
The New Butterfly Suite is launched-June 10th 2015
(Article from the trust) The Mayor of Burnley, Cllr Liz Monk, was joined by staff from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust as she officially opened the new Butterfly Suite at the Central Birth Suite at Burnley General Hospital. The idea and the main drive for the Butterfly Suite came from Joanne and Mark Edwards and […]
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Medafore Scan Trainer
For many years East Lancashire hospital trust have been focused on trying to prevent stillbirths. We are aware that one of the preventable causes of stillbirth is babies that have not grown appropriately, intrauterine growth retardation or IUGR. Women who are at risk are referred for a scan. However, there is shortage both locally and […]
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Memory Boxes
‘Luke’s Angel Friend’ Memory boxes are to support families in collecting cherished memories of their baby, no matter what gestation they are born. These are put together by Joanne our founder. We were pleased to have delivered our first 10 of ‘Luke’s Angel Friend’ memory boxes to the hospital on Monday 23rd […]
£3099 Donated -
Serenity Suite Conversion-The project begins
The room that will become a 2nd Serenity Suite This photo is of the room which we are raising money for. Currently this clinical room is your basic delivery suite. Our hopes are to make this suite comforting for women who are ill or suffer loss during pregnancy. It will be used by parents who […]
£12987 Donated