The Parent Gap is led by leading UK Perinatal Mental Health charity

Maternal Mental Health Alliance

Our alliance is a wide-reaching collaborative network which include members (community groups, national charities and professional bodies), our lived experience champions network and an incredible range of professional experts and influential allies. We’re grateful to everyone who supports our work every day, including our Royal Patron HRH The Princess of Wales.

Visit the MMHA website

Our team of multi-disciplinary experts

  • Nikki Wilson

    CEO, Maternal Mental Health Alliance. Co-founder, Make Birth Better. Social enterprise consultant.

  • Dr. Krystal Wilkinson

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

  • Annie Belasco

    CEO, PANDAS Foundation

  • Rachael Jordan

    Marketing & Partnerships Expert

  • 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.