Blogs

What’s on in October

October is just around the corner! Here’s a quick look at some of the things we have on. Head over to our events page for full details and how to sign up. All free, and all exclusively for HIE families. Any questions, or suggestions, please don ...

Fancy volunteering with Peeps?

Over the last few years, Peeps has really grown, reaching more and more families across the UK. The support we have received is wonderful, and we’ve been fortunate that people have offered to help out and volunteer, which means so much to us. W ...

It’s our birthday!

Today marks four years since Peeps became a registered charity. Pretty exciting! Can you help us celebrate? We’re asking for our friends and supporters to join in with a Birthday Pledge Four Peeps. It’s easy – create your own challe ...

New – Professional Panel

After launching our Parent Panel last year, we are now planning a new Professional Panel to run along side. We’re using the term “professional” in a broad sense, to cover anyone who may work with or support families touched by HIE & ...

Up, up and away!

Can you believe that we’re getting ready to celebrate our 4th birthday here at Peeps! We’ll be sharing more with you over the coming weeks as to how you can get involved (as always, there are super easy options!), but wanted to let you kn ...

Parent Voice Opportunities

We just wanted to share with you some of the current ways in which HIE parents/carers, can get involved in research projects, ensuring that all our voices are heard. If you’re interested or would like to find out more, please pop a message over ...

Geronimo – free festival tickets for Peeps!

Geronimo Fest have kindly donated some family tickets for our Peeps families to enjoy! There really is something for everyone at this family event, and the organisers are committed to ensuring everyone can enjoy it, making it as accessible as po ...

Have your say…

Researchers at the UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health have approached Peeps as they are looking for volunteers to participate in a study exploring parental experiences of having a baby admitted for neonatal care following a diagnosis of HIE ...

Your voice matters

Here at Peeps we always try and make sure that the parent voice is heard – our journeys, backgrounds, and feelings can all vary so much, and all are important. We’ve been invited to take part in some training sessions with healthcare prof ...

Can you help the National Research Priority Setting Partnership?

This is a national project to prioritise research questions to attract funding for practice-changing neonatal trials. They are particularly interested in the viewpoints of parents, families and former neonatal patients and are really trying to make s ...

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 ...