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3rd March 2025

Did anyone see Blackburn Rovers Dads FC on BBC breakfast this morning? 🌅
Thank you so much to John Watson from the BBC for wanting to do the story on the bereaved dads football group ⭐️
Thank you to Blackburn Rovers Community Trust for enabling us to set up a group for dads & being an amazing support.
Thank you to Joanne from Friends of Serenity for partnering with us to make this group happen.
If anyone who is a bereaved dad wants to go along to meet the lads their fb group is the link above & they meet at the BRIC every Friday 8-9pm.
Remember YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
There is a lot of dads out there that are feeling & thinking the same as you!

1st March 2025

Wow what a day for Maggie’s Stillbirth Legacy ⭐️
Today at half time at the Rovers v Norwich game I was asked to go onto the pitch to receive the
ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE COMMUNITY HERO
for all the work we do in memory of our beautiful baby girl 🥹
I can’t tell you how honoured I am that Blackburn Rovers Community Trust chose Maggies legacy for this 👼🏼💜
As you all know we do what we do to help families at the worst times of their lives but also to keep Maggies memory alive 💔
Afterwards myself & Katie Louise Skarratts got the flag signed off the players 😮
We also got to meet some of the WAGS & they were so nice & have since messaged on Maggie’s instagram to say they will get us something to auction & for the gala off the players ⚽️
I’m so overwhelmed but so very happy & proud xx

28th February 2025

Last night I was asked to go to a small gathering in the town hall hosted by the Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen .
The amazing Andrew told me to bring some of my memory boxes so I can show people one of the things Maggie’s Stillbirth Legacy does.
I was actually asked to come down to the front to speak to all the Mayors, Mayoresses, consorts & Mr mayors family about Maggie’s legacy 🥹👼🏼💜
They were from all over including… Blackpool, rosendale & the ribble valley.
I was not prepared for this at all 🤣
It was hard to do and I almost cried but I didn’t!
I held it together & talked about cuddle cots, cuddle blankets, memory boxes & our support groups.
I loved that people shared their stories of baby or child loss with me afterwards, they looked through our memory boxes & asked questions.
I love that all the people last night now know about our beautiful baby girl & her legacy & hopefully they will tell others her name & that support is out there should they need it.
The mayor of Blackburn with Darwen will be changing soon (there is a new mayor every year), & I will really miss Brian & his amazing daughters.
They have become my friends & im so honoured to of been asked there last night.
Thank you Mr Mayor for supporting Maggie’s stillbirth legacy.
For being interested & invested in what we do.
And for becoming a friend xx

9th February 2025

Great day yesterday with Joanne from Friends of Serenity & Fee Fee from Blackburn Rovers Community Trust & the BBC!

We have all done some filming today at the rovers game & we did some on Friday evening too about the BEREAVED DADS group we have set up 👼🏼

This is for any dad who has a baby or child that has died 💔
The dads meet once a week at the BRIC & have a game of footy & then sneak off to the pub 🤣
If anyone would like to join them they have a fb page on here called ….
blackburn rovers dads fc.

If you were at the match you may of seen us on the pitch at half time & heard us talking on the mic 🎤
I even got to do the lotto draw so whoever won the £300 I want half 🤣🤣

-Sarah

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Friday 31st of January

WOW! What a day yesterday was! 🥹 A great ending to January and a fabulous start to the year for @maggiesstillbirthlegacy!

I was asked to go to gap today to do a talk & show them our memory boxes for bereaved parents to see if they wanted to fundraise for us in 2025.

What I didn’t know was ….. THEY HAVE REALLY BEEN FUNDRAISING THE WHOLE OF 2024!!!

I was so nervous when I walked in the board room & there was so many people there.
I saw Emma Lancaster so that put me at ease a tiny bit.
Then I saw Graham Liver from BBC radio
Lancashire & I was so confused as I didn’t know he worked at gap!
HE DOESNT.
He played a trick and said he came to see my talk and to do a small interview on the recent BCAv award I received.

We did a bit of an interview & that’s when Ian Lax interrupted & told me why I was really there ….
GAP RAISED A MASSIVE £5000 through 2024 😱

I can’t tell you how much this will help bereaved families, my angel mummy group Little Lifetimes 🦋 & it’s a massive chunk towards our next big fundraising effort to buy a cuddle cot, cuddle blanket, provide parent, sibling & grandparent memories boxes to east Lancashire palliative care at home team.

I cried a lot!
My full body was shaking with shock!

Vicky McGurk is in so much trouble for keeping this secret 🤣
Thank you for all you do for Maggie’s and being the BEST patron to us!

THANK YOU SO SO much to all involved & the huge efforts you have all put in to support us 👼🏼💜

 

Thursday 23rd of January

Today I received my
BRITISH CITIZEN AWARD, the peoples honour,
in memory of our beautiful girl, Maggie 💜

Sarah proudly holds her British Citizen Award certificate, smiling with excitement.
A huge congratulations to Sarah, founder of Maggie’s Stillbirth Legacy, on receiving the British Citizen Award (BCA) for her incredible dedication to supporting bereaved families.

I can’t tell you how absolutely awesome today was!
My mummy, Oliver & I were surrounded by the most wonderful people from all over the uk!

We don’t do what we do for recognition & I can’t tell you how much we honestly wish Maggie was here instead of us fundraising, supporting families etc …. BUT … taking my pure heart break & making a positive impact in Maggie’s name is so important to me & all I have now 🥺

So many people today heard Maggie’s story.
Heard how all the love I have for her is helping others.
That to me, means the world!
There was tears today (mainly mine, but I did make most of the room cry 🙈).
There was laughter.
And most of all there was love.

Here are just a few of the billions of pictures we took today!
Including the open roof bus tour “lap of honour” of London.

Thank you Marky for nominating me & being proud of us and what we do!!

 

Monday 29th May 2023

👼🏼 MAGGIE’S LEGACY IS IN MALLORCA 👼🏼
On Friday I donated a Cuddle Cot & 20 memory boxes to Manacor hospital.
THIS IS THE ONLY CUDDLE COT ON THE WHOLE ISLAND!
As you know my dad, step mum, sister & niece live in Mallorca and when Maggie died they were able to meet her due to Burnley hospital having a cuddle cot!!
We got to spend 3 days with our beautiful little angel & made as many memories as we could, memories that have to last us a lifetime 💜I found out that when a baby is stillborn in Mallorca, parents only get an extremely short time to make memories with them I then KNEW I HAD to get a cuddle cot there!
Now they can spend time, make memories & families will have time to fly over and meet baby if they are from mainland or abroad. Just like my family did 🥹
It’s taken a VERY LONG time & a lot of obstacles along the way, but we did it 😍
It’s been a long and extremely emotional week 💜
Myself & my family spent days making memory boxes, translating Spanish to English & English to Spanish, providing training to the hospital and all the staff on how to use the cot, signing so much paperwork it’s unreal!
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Mallorca and not sunbathed 😂
My dad, step mum Katy & sister Joana have been so amazing helping me to get the cot to Mallorca, translating, helping me make all the boxes etc. They held me up when I was heartbroken even though they were too 💔
I would like to put a massive THANK YOU on here to MIKE PETIGREW who PAID for my flight and the cuddle cot to go to Mallorca!
Mike is such an amazing guy and to do this for Maggie’s legacy means the world to Mark & I.

Tuesday 16th May 2023

Today after months of meetings and a lot of personal learning on my part,

I provided bereavement training at
LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY HEADQUARTERS to DCI’s, DI’s and DS’s.
I have worked alongside Keely from Child Protection to offer this training & support and I’m so proud to be able to be a voice for all my angels mummies & families.
Keely is amazing and is so passionate about what she does as well as helping bereaved families as much as possible.
I feel so lucky to have her helping me understand more about what happens “legally” when a baby/child dies.
Her knowledge will help me support my families even more, as I can now answer the questions they have thoroughly.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous!
But also so proud!
It was a very mixed bag of emotions for me today & I was angry at myself for getting emotional 💔
It’s hard not to when I’m speaking about Maggie & why I do what I do 👼🏼
However, the feedback I received was amazing and I feel so proud to be apart of the training around the sudden death of a baby/child & ways to possibly improve & keep doing what these officers are doing!!
Thank you to my angel mummies who provided me with feedback that I could use today, you guys are my warriors and I’m so proud of each one of you for your honest & open messages 😘
Thank you to Mark for having to constantly listen to my “practice runs” of what I wanted to talk about, only to change it, read it again and then change it back 😂

Monday 15th May 2023

How amazing to be one of the winners of THE LANCASTRIAN AWARD 😱😍

I was presented with my certificate today, by the lovely Philip, and I couldn’t be prouder!!
My beautiful Maggie’s memory is going to live on as long as I have breath in my body! 💜👼🏼
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Thank you to everyone who nominated me 😘
But a massive thank you to Marky whose nomination they saw first as he wrote “I’m extremely proud of my wife” 🥹

Sunday 23rd April 2023

Today I went over to Burnley to see Frankie.

Frankie gave me £600 that her & her husband Zee have raised for Maggie’s Stillbirth Legacy in memory of her little boy,
Muhammad-Yusuf Hassan 💙🦋
When little Yusuf grew his angel wings, he was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital and was placed in Maggie’s cuddle cot.
The cuddle cot enabled Frankie and her husband Zee to create some everlasting memories with Yusuf and also for me to be able to go to the hospital and meet Yusuf, which was an honour.
Yusuf will always hold a special place in my heart 💙
Frankie & Zee have requested that I use the money they have raised to buy more memory boxes & put towards my group Little Lifetimes 🦋 that supports angel mummies, from pregnancy loss onwards, which Frankie attends.
I honestly can’t thank you guys enough for this massive donation!! It will really help and you both know how much.
💙 Muhammad-Yusuf Hassan 💙
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Maggies Stillbirth Legacy is nonprofit organization, working from 2015 for supporting bereaved families. We work for global awareness & support for Stillbirth & Infant Loss.
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