Blogs

Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week takes place 9-15 May 2022. The theme this year is loneliness. “Part of the reason we set Peeps up was because we knew how lonely and isolating it could feel when your baby has an HIE diagnosis. When it happened to u ...

Can you help?

Following feedback and discussions with a neonatal transport team, we’re looking to add bonding hearts to our free parent packs, for those families at the start of their HIE journey. They can also be used for those with older children as a form ...

Ride London – limited places!

Fancy taking part in the popular RideLondon event on the 29th May for Team Peeps? If so, we would love to hear from you! We have limited places available, so please either message or email info@peeps-hie.org if you’re interested. In summary it& ...

New – Journaling course

Have you ever felt that your head is just too full? Or you have too many ideas and too many thoughts and can’t make sense of it all. Do you wish there was a way to walk through these feelings? Journaling helps these thoughts and feelings to flow on ...

Welcome to the team!

We’re delighted to welcome two new Trustees to the team; Dr Ela Chakkarapani, and Hannah Adams. Both bring with them such valuable, varied experience, and a huge insight to the world of HIE. We’re really looking forward to working and gro ...

We mentioned a little while back that we were working on an exciting project, which is now ready to launch. Our very own #HeardofHIE song*.   We’re happy to be proved wrong, but we really do think it might be the first time that “Hypoxic-Isc ...

Mother’s Day Wishes

For all you are, and all you do, we’re sending our Mother’s Day love to you (with a little extra love to anyone who might find today a bit wobbly). Thanks to Think Outside Social for our HIEroic Mum design. Remember we’re here for y ...

£10,000 for HIE Mental Health Support – thank you!

We’d like to start the week off by saying a great big THANK YOU to The National Lottery Community Fund (@TNLCommunityFund), for awarding Peeps with a £10,000 grant for HIE Mental Health Support. Over the past 12 months, we have funded over 300 ...

We need you!

4th April is HIE Awareness Day. We’d love you to be part of it, by sharing photos of: Your HIEro (child who has experienced an HIE event) doing what they love – this could be enjoying a holiday, doing an activity or simply being their g ...

Online Trauma Information Session

Peeps’ Charity Coordinator – Liz Cockram will be running free online sessions looking at how going through a traumatic event (such as witnessing your child’s HIE event) affects the brain/body and how understanding what has happened ...

Heidi’s Headgear Challenge – 15th Feb to 15th March – are you in?

Some of you may know Heidi, or have heard a little about her. If not, she’s the driving force behind Peeps! Her mum and dad, Sarah & Steve, set up Peeps after Heidi (affectionately called Heidi-Peeps by a friend) experienced an HIE event just a ...

HIE Awareness Day – a date for your diary!

HIE Awareness Day takes place on the 4th April each year. We set this up at Peeps, in 2019, to raise awareness and make sure as many people as possible can say they have #HeardofHIE. We’re hoping that the 4th one is going to be the biggest one ...

Could it be you?

Do you have experience of HIE (Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy), preferably in a clinical setting (neonatal/paediatrics)?  Are you keen to use your experience to make a difference to others?  Have you a little time (at least 2 hours per month) to ...

新年快乐 Happy New Year!

Kung Hei Fat Choi. Sending best wishes to all our families and friends celebrating Chinese New Year!   ...

Fancy a chat?

Just a reminder that our team are available and happy to chat if you need us. No topic too big or too small! Drop us an email and we can arrange a call, zoom, or message. Liz Cockram – liz@peeps-hie.org Michelle Atkins – michelle@peeps-hi ...

New peer support group

We know from talking to our families that the idea of joining a support group, or reaching out to others, can be daunting. It can be even more scary if you are new to the world of HIE and don’t know what the future might hold. So we listened, a ...

Sulley’s Fund

Sulley’s Fund has been put in place to support families who have experienced loss through HIE. We understand that nothing can take away the heartbreak of loss, but we hope that by dedicating a fund specifically for bereaved families, we can help in ...

New Year Wishes

Wishing you all the best for 2022. As we reflect back on what 2021 brought us, we want to send our love to each one of our families and supporters. We know that there have been difficult times. We hope that we can play a small part in offering some c ...

Whether you are in full festive swing, or keeping it low-key with a cuppa, we just want to send you all of our wishes for a safe and peaceful Christmas. Our thoughts are especially with those who are in hospital over the festive period, and the famil ...

Christmas Prize Draw!

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in the Peeps’ Christmas Prize Draw, whether donating a prize, buying ticket or sharing the posts. Over £1,200 has been raised, which is amazing! If you bought a ticket, make sure you check your email ...