ITFA Annual Conference: Tommy’s – ITFA’s 2019 Charity

ITFA is proud to support Tommy’s as the nominated charity for 2019. This organisation will therefore benefit from our support by investing the monies collected from us, ITFA and our members.

Tommy’s is a charity that carries out pioneering research into miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth, and provides vital pregnancy health information to parents. Tommy’s is also the largest UK charity funding research to prevent stillbirth. They provide support for grieving parents who want to understand what happened to their baby. 

Tommy’s exists because 1 in 4 pregnancies will end in the loss of a baby. Tommy’s is supported by people who refuse to accept that a baby’s death is just “one of those things”.

Their target is to halve the number of babies that die during pregnancy or birth by 2030, but they can only carry on with their work through the support of others so that every parent has the best possible pregnancy to take home happy, healthy babies.

Some Recent achievements by Tommy’s:

• In St. Mary’s Hospital, they lowered the average number of stillbirths by 19% from 2012 to 2017. This is equivalent to 12 fewer babies dying every year.
• They have reduced the proportion of unexplained stillbirths in the Greater Manchester area from 28% in 2014 to 16% in 2016.
• In Edinburgh, obese women attending their antenatal clinic were an astounding 8 times less likely to have a stillbirth than women receiving standard care.
• They are rolling out the excellent care that women get in a pregnancy after a stillbirth at their rainbow clinic to 5 new sites.

We at ITFA encourage you to support this deserving charity and donate online by clicking here, alternatively you can donate at the gala dinner, so please remember to get cash with you on the night. We are so committed to this worthy organisation that ITFA will match the money collected so that a meaningful contribution can be made to Tommy’s.

Please join us in supporting this admirable cause! Together we can make a difference!