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Play the Unity Lottery for Bliss today for a chance to win up to £25,000 and help make a real difference to the lives of the UK's most vulnerable babies.

One in every eight babies in the UK is born premature or sick needing urgent, specialist hospital care.

Whether they are in hospital for a few days or many months, or they sadly don't survive to come home, they are faced with one of the biggest challenges of their lives.

At Bliss, we want every baby to have the best chance of survival and quality of life. We want them to leave hospital with their family and thrive.

The difference your support will make

Your support will help us make a real difference to premature and sick babies right at the beginning of their lives by enabling life-changing neonatal research, campaigning and working with health professionals to improve standards of care and empowering families with information and support when they need it the most.

Thank you for considering playing the Unity Lottery for Bliss – together we can help ensure that the UK's most vulnerable babies have the best possible start in life.

Cots for Tots is Bristol's special care baby charity. The charity provides pioneering medical equipment and helps expert doctors and nurses care for over 800 babies born prematurely, or with life-threatening conditions, every year.

Your weekly participation provides a regular gift and is important to us in so many ways. For example, your support would add up to the cost of one night's family accommodation just by playing once a week for a year. Funding home-from-home accommodation right opposite the hospital allows parents and siblings to remain close to their child's bedside whilst they are being treated, as well as allowing them to get some much-needed rest.

"Our daughter Ellie arrived at just 24 weeks and was transferred to Bristol for lifesaving surgery. Hayley and I were very worried about where we would stay. We were immediately welcomed to Cots for Tots house. It was such a relief to be given free a free place to stay, located right by the hospital." - Jonathan

Thank you for your amazing support and good luck in the Cots for Tots Lotto!

FAB is a registered charity who are commissioned to support breastfeeding, often in areas of high deprivation with low breastfeeding rates within the UK. We are currently working in Wakefield district, across Lancashire and the Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole areas.

Mission & Aims…….

• We believe in the power of mums supporting other mums and this will always be at the heart of our service.
• We want to enable mums to access evidenced based peer support training and to work alongside Health Professionals to provide the breastfeeding support that families and babies need.
• We wish to provide evidenced based information enabling families to make informed infant feeding choices; ensuring effective support is available.

Our vision is to protect, promote and support breastfeeding; through a peer support service run by mums for mums.

We do this by……..

• Recruiting local mums to become paid or volunteer peer supporters to support other mums with breastfeeding offering true peer to per support
• Providing accredited breastfeeding peer support training and support to make sure all our peers are confident within their roles
• Working closely with Health Professionals to ensure evidenced based information is given

www.familiesandbabies.org.uk

Life is recognised with the ‘Trusted Charity Mark’

Life is the charity for women facing unexpected pregnancy and pregnancy loss. We provide the support for women to transition into parenthood.

It can be a frightening time, facing unplanned pregnancy. Life clients are empowered with a true sense of self-worth and given the space to explore their feelings and needs and to find their own strength.

The front line service is Life’s National Helpline. This is a free, fully accredited, client-led, non-directive and compassionate listening and counselling service.

Clients are also offered practical necessities including safe housing and support services. Life offers support for as long as it’s needed in order to build solid foundations on which women, children and families can thrive.

Life are here for people facing the most difficult and life-changing circumstances of their lives: unexpected pregnancy, pregnancy loss and loss through abortion. (In line with our terms of service we do not refer for abortion or give information on abortion providers).

Supporting Life through this charity lottery can make a meaningful difference not just today or this week, but for generations. Thank you for being a part of this.

Thank you for supporting Sands through our weekly Lottery.

You are making a huge difference to the lives of bereaved families in their darkest hours, helping to give them hope for the future.

For just £1 per week you’ll be in with the chance of winning up to £25,000! You will also be helping us continue our vital work to improve maternity safety through targeted research, campaigning for change and ensuring that the voices of bereaved parents are heard, so that we can learn lessons for the future.

Your support is invaluable and we couldn't do it without you. Thank you so much and wishing you the best of luck!

Each year millions of people find out they will need to undergo fertility treatment to start or extend their family. Many of those will receive little or no NHS funding for their fertility treatment.

Play our lottery so we can continue our work to provide IVF grants and fertility support.

The Lullaby Trust is a charity that saves babies’ lives and supports bereaved families. Around 4 babies a week still die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and we are committed to bringing that number down to zero.

Through educating parents on how they can reduce the risk of SIDS and investing over £12 million in research, we have played a key role in reducing the number of babies who die from SIDS by 80%, saving the lives of more than 20,000 babies.

Each year we train thousands of health professionals to support parents in sleeping their baby safely, and reach millions of families with our vital safer sleep advice. We campaign tirelessly to raise awareness of SIDS and ensure our life saving advice reaches all parents.

The Lullaby Trust supports bereaved families, through our helpline and befriending scheme. We work with local healthcare providers to deliver the Care of Next Infant Programme (CONI) which offers a lifeline to bereaved families expecting a new baby.

Thank you for signing up to take part in our weekly lottery and helping make a big difference for babies with serious heart conditions, their families and the health professionals who care for them.

One in every 125 babies is born with a serious heart condition - that’s one every two hours. The early detection of their condition is vital to give these babies the best start in life. But sadly, 1000 newborns with heart conditions are sent home from UK hospitals every year with no-one knowing they are gravely ill.

Many will fall into heart failure before getting the treatment they need and sadly, some won’t make it back to hospital in time. Tiny Tickers is changing that.

Our mission is that every heart baby receives a diagnosis as soon as medically possible and that their family gets the support they need. We do this by training the sonographers who carry out pregnancy scans to have the skills and confidence to detect heart defects, placing potentially life-saving equipment in maternity units and supporting families through the most difficult of journeys..

None of this would be possible without our generous supporters. Thank you for making a big difference.

Twins Trust is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to improving the lives of thousands of families with twins, triplets or higher multiples.

Having children is an amazing experience but it is incredibly hard work. The families we support face double or triple the work - the challenges of feeding more than one baby, double the nappies, double the clothes, double the lack of sleep, double the time taken just to get out the front door......

But they also face more specific problems:

Mums expecting twins or more are at a far higher risk of developing complications during pregnancy
Their babies have almost a 50:50 chance of spending time in a special care baby unit
Twins are 4 times more likely to die during pregnancy compared to a single baby
Parents of multiples are more likely to suffer financial strain and separate or divorce
Mums have twice the risk of developing Post Natal Depression

To support these families Twins Trust provides:

• Antenatal and parenting classes
• A confidential, free-phone helpline
• An on-line social networking community and a national network of twins clubs
• Specialist support groups including the Bereavement Support Group, Single Parent Support Group, Special Needs Support Group and the Super Twin Support Group for families with triplets or more.
• We also undertake research and campaigning to help improve the lives of families with twins, triplets or more.
• Information booklets and factsheets

Playing the Twins Trust Lottery will help us continue to provide this vital support. Thank you.