Aching Arms is a registered baby loss charity run by a group of bereaved parents who have experienced the pain and emptiness of leaving hospital without their much loved baby. Our work is focused on bringing comfort and support to bereaved parents and their families after the loss of a baby and raising awareness of the impact of pregnancy and baby loss, Through a network of volunteers we provide Aching Arms Bears to 192 NHS hospitals in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for midwives and nurses to give to recently bereaved parents. We also support families across the UK who contact us via our website, email, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and post bears to them directly. In 2020 we launched our 'Supporting Arms' helpline service. We can be contacted via support@achingarms.co.uk text/call 07464508994. In March 2022 we launched 'Supporting Arms for Dads' a monthly online session for bereaved Dads. We also launched our 'Be Together' programme in December 2021. It's aim is to bring families together for friendship with the shared knowledge that they are not alone. We offer free awareness training workshops to maternity services health professionals working in UK hospitals. The aim of the training is to build their confidence in supporting bereaved parents. We also offer workplace bereavement advice and training for employers, their HR teams, their people managers and wider team of employees. I am also available to speak about my story of loss, how I was inspired to establish James' legacy and how you can better support bereaved parents you know.

I became the part time Charity Coordinator for Aching Arms and was responsible for the growth of the charity and for getting our comfort bears to an increasing number of hospitals each year.

I set out to set up a small charity that would help other bereaved mothers like me feel less alone and know where they could go for help and support. Aching Arms was founded in June 2010 in memory of my baby James.

I am a Teaching and Learning Consultant specialising in raising the achievement of bilingual (EAL) learners and learners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups who are at risk of underachieving at secondary school. This is achieved through a focus on academic language and literacy devopment through a content and language integrated teaching pedagogy. I work collaboratively with senior and middle leaders, subject leaders, teachers and teaching assistants to build the school's capacity to meet the distinctive needs of EAL and ethnic minority learners. This is achieved through partnership teaching, mentoring/coaching, facilitating training and/or consultancy.

Plan and deliver training and 1:1 support for the professional development of specialist EAL and mainstream teachers including newly qualifed teachers and EAL/EMA post holders new to role Kensington and Chelsea schools.Develop secondary curriculum resources to meet the distinctive needs of EAL learners in mainstream subject lessons.

Joint Co-ordinator of English as an Additional Language and Ethnic Minority Achievement Team.Raising the attainment of bilingual and Black, Asian and minority ethnic learners through: teacher professional development, collaborative planning and teaching, intervention projects, small group support and 1:1 support for learners distinctive needs.