The Parent Gap is a collaboration between two leading UK Perinatal Mental Health charities…

Maternal Mental Health Alliance

The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is a UK-wide charity and network of 130 member organisations, parents, and clinicians dedicated to ensuring all women, babies, and families impacted by perinatal mental health problems have access to high-quality, compassionate care and support.

PANDAS Foundation

PANDAS is a charity with a mission: ‘To be the UK’s most recognised and trusted support service for families and their networks who may be suffering from perinatal mental illness, including prenatal (antenatal) and postnatal depression.’

Our team of multi-disciplinary experts

  • Rachael Jordan

    Director of Marketing & Partnerships, Maternal Mental Health Alliance.

  • Annie Belasco

    CEO, PANDAS Foundation

  • Amy Tubb

    Communications Manager, Maternal Mental Health Alliance

  • Sally Bunkham

    Director of Communications & Partnerships, PANDAS Foundation

  • Dr. Krystal Wilkinson

    Author & Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Julianne Boutaleb CPsychol AFBPsS

    Consultant Perinatal Psychologist & Clinical Director, Parenthood in Mind

  • Leanne Howlett

    Specialist Perinatal Psychiatric Nurse, registered solicitor, and mum with lived experience of perinatal mental illness

Supported by a growing network of specialist collaborators

Lifeboat Perinatal Mental Health CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise providing perinatal mental health peer support, training and awareness raising for parents and front line workers supporting parents during pregnancy, birth and beyond. As part of our community initiatives, we deliver seminars and workshops to early years staff, schools, universities, colleges and workplaces.

wholeSum helps organisations get to the heart of their audience’s experiences by effortlessly turning complex qualitative data into rich, reliable insights. Our team includes award-winning specialists in data science, research, communication, and population studies. We are the owner of ‘Wish I’d Known’, a huge, crowdsourced database of parenting experiences, with nearly 1,000 anonymised insights, freely available via our intelligent library.