Croydon MNVP

24/03/2026

Reducing Stigma for Younger Women - Living with Type 2 Diabetes

💷 £50 LoveShop e-voucher | Limited Spaces

This study will work with women who have type 2 diabetes to create films, pictures and stories aimed at reducing stigma. Your experiences and ideas helps shape supportive materials for the wider community.

To be able to take part in this group and avoid disappointment on the day, you will need to confirm that you are:

✅ Women aged between 18-45
✅ Have Type 2 diabetes
✅ Have lived in the UK for at least 1 year
✅ Facing barriers accessing healthcare
✅ Able to speak English (if not, we still want to talk to you! Please contact us for a one-to-one chat and we will try to arrange an interpreter)

🗓 Thursday, 26th March 2026
🕕 11am - 12:30pm
📍 ARCC, 89 Canterbury Rd, Croydon, CR0 3HA

Register Via:
www.arccltd.com/diabetes-focus-group

Please note that your space will be confirmed after registration, once our coordinator has contacted you by phone or email.

Ima Miah

24/03/2026

Croydon Maternity Emotional Wellbeing Support Drop-Ins 💚

Pregnancy and early parenthood can bring lots of different emotions, and it’s okay if things don’t always feel how you expected.

Our upcoming Croydon Maternity Mental Health Support Drop-Ins are here to offer a safe, supportive space to talk, ask questions, and find out what help is available. You do not need to be in crisis to reach out — support is there for you whether you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, low, or simply need someone to listen.

These drop-ins are open to anyone using Croydon Maternity Services who would like support with their emotional wellbeing during pregnancy or after birth.

💚 Friendly, supportive space
💚 Help to access the right support
💚 No pressure, no judgement
💚 You are not alone

Please see the post for upcoming dates, times, and location details.

CroydonMums MentalHealthSupport YouAreNotAlone MaternityCare EmotionalWellbeing

19/03/2026

🤱👨‍🍼The Infant feeding team Croydon is working on a new Infant Feeding and Responsive Parenting antenatal class.
🗣️The Croydon Infant Feeding Team would like to hear from, mums/mums to be, dads/dads to be, and other relatives or birth partners their thoughts on what should be included.
🫶 Please complete the survey by clicking the link below
⏰ The survey finishes on Sunday 12th April 2026

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO4-2xdsUk64RAqGQ9OiNg7phUNUlOTzlPT0RFV0VOSjFRRlZOSVdYQllRSC4u

17/03/2026

We are looking for people who would like to help improve Croydon Health Services - Maternity. We need four people to review the draft Induction of Labour (IOL) patient information sheet. We would like you to check it contains all the required information, that it is easy to read and understand for mums/birthing people and their partners. See below for more details…….

17/03/2026

3am. Baby won’t sleep. And you’re Googling everything. 😴📱

There’s a better way.

👶 The DadPad app – practical support for new dads, right when you need it.
💡 Built together with the NHS
📍 Free for all Croydon dads

Get tips, reassurance, and real guidance for those “what do I do now?” moments.

⬇️ Download it now — link in bio!

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16/03/2026

icklepicklescharity and Croydon Health Services NHS Trust neonatal unit ❤️🙌🏽

11/03/2026

09/03/2026

📅 have regular meetings with and neonatal teams. At, these meetings we share a service user experience with CUH, update CUH on our work and also hear directly from CUH what is happening on the units. Mums, birthing people, dads and birthing partners welcome 💕
🤰🏼This week we'll be sharing a service user experience of giving birth and their care in neonatal unit at Croydon University Hospital.
👩🏽‍💻The meetings are held online via Microsoft Teams and if you would like to attend please DM us to be sent a link.
🙏Polite notice: we understand that for some maternity and neonatal experiences can be emotional and triggering, but this space must remain safe and respectful for all.

06/03/2026

📢A massive shout out to Ching, Emily and their beautiful babies who attended our collaboration event with David Lean Cinema today! Thank you 🤩 so much for taking the time to complete our survey and for sharing your birthing experiences with us, so that
Croydon Health Services - Maternity can listen and know what they are doing well and what they could improve 💖.

🎬We were so lucky to watch Hamnet in such an iconic theatre. We were brought to tears due watching such emotional performances of childbirth and the grief of child loss. The accurate depiction of the strain and trauma that child loss causes was so relatable, we almost forgot Hamnet is an historical drama based 400 plus years ago. Although, there is no evidence that Shakespeare’s play Hamlet was based on the loss of his real life son Hamnet at the age of 11, as a way of pouring his pain into his art, this beautifully acted drama makes it easy to believe 🥀.

06/03/2026

Feeling hopeful and excited on our way to our first collaborative event with the David Lean Cinema!
We look forward to meeting the mums/birthing people who said they’d help improve our Croydon MNVP Croydon Health Services - Maternity and neonatal survey, by completing it and providing feedback.
Thank you 🙏🏽 to all the Croydon mums/birthing people who have given their feedback via email.
You are all truly helping improve maternity and neonatal services for all Croydon families 🌟