‘Maintaining Normality For Women With Cancer Throughout The Pregnancy Journey.’ Cancer and Pregnancy Awareness Week June Facebook/mummysstar

What we do Provide a ‘one stop shop’ for advice on cancer diagnosis in pregnancy/post birth including links to localised services. Advocacy on behalf of our families. Including support at hospital appointments, help with benefit entitlements and employment rights advice. Emergency small grants for families. Anything from paying for help in the home and with childcare, payment to make up for unpaid leave taken by a partner or travel costs to and from appointments. In the event of a terminal diagnosis - grants up to £1000 for memory making activities such as a family holiday. Facilitating peer support in a supervised setting via the use of administrated internet forums for affected women, their partners and wider family members. A second forum for affected women, specific to those diagnosed with a molar pregnancy, was created in July This was as a direct response to the particular needs of this user group, whose situation was notably different from the majority of forum users, particularly in regard to the absence of a live birth. Where appropriate, staff provide support for all affected women individually via , phone, social media and occasionally in person, thereby reducing isolation. In the event of the death of a mum, we continue to provide support both for the surviving partner and family.

This year the focus of the awareness week centres on Maintaining Normality For Women With Cancer Throughout The Pregnancy Journey Sadly we hear from many woman how they felt their pregnancy/new mum experience was taken away from them following their diagnosis or that the choices they should have had were removed. Many of our mums tragically lost a pregnancy as a result of diagnosis but were not provided with the necessary baby loss support that is so vital at such a devastating time. Mummy’s Star has supported nearly 250 families so far in the UK and Ireland. Key messages

Encourage anyone you can to join in with promotion of our awareness week Support us on social media Create a news story for your website, e-newsletter, noticeboards etc. Order materials from us to create a display Arrange a fundraising event How can you help?

Follow us on Follow us on Facebook – Facebook/mummysstarwww.facebook.com/mummysstar Temporarily change your social media photo to Mummy’s Star images (on the right) Join our ThunderclapThunderclap Examples of tweets and posts (use these to promote our campaign) Social media Please keep supporting our Thunderclap for our third ‪ #‎CancerandPregnancy ‬ awareness week to help get the word out there. You can support it via Facebook, Twitter or both and on Monday 13th June it will send out a message from your social media showing that you are supporting our week. ‪ #‎CancerandPregnancy ‬ #CancerandPregnancy Awareness Week 2016 theme - Maintaining Normality For Women With Cancer Throughout The Pregnancy Please show your support for #CancerandPregnancy awareness week June and #ShowYourStars IGaYFaebI#CancerandPregnancy #ShowYourStarshttps:// IGaYFaebI #CancerandPregnancy Awareness Week - Please join the Thunderclap & keep sharing to help us reach We’re supporting #CancerandPregnancy Awareness Week #ShowYourStars (insert image of what you’re doing)

We can send you leaflets to distribute to your local hospitals, cancer centres, doctor’s surgeries and children’s centres. By ensuring women and their families hear about our services you can be sure they will receive our support. If you have a small space in your reception area or staff room for a collection box, please contact us and we can send one out to you. Maybe you could ask other local businesses if they would mind having one too. Order materials

Please use the attached press release (in whole or part) on your website, e-news, newsletter etc. – anywhere that can create awareness of the week. Newsletter content

Visit our website Mummy’s Star is a registered charity in England and Wales ( ) and Scotland (SC046449) and is operating in Ireland. A company registered in England & Wales, Company No Contact: Further info