Honoured for services to Black maternal health and social enterprise.
About Sandra Igwe MBE
Built from lived experience. Leading with purpose.
Sandra Igwe MBE is a Black maternal health leader, founder, author and speaker helping to reshape how the UK sees, supports and listens to Black mothers.
A life’s work
From being unheard to building a movement.
Sandra’s work began with a deeply personal truth: maternity care does not work equally for everyone. After experiencing postnatal depression and feeling dismissed within maternity services, she began creating the support, information and community she could not find.
That determination became The Motherhood Group, a social enterprise that has grown from a local community of mothers into a nationally recognised Black maternal-health organisation. Today its work spans peer support, counselling, cultural-competency training, research, national campaigns, policy influence and digital innovation.
As a British-Nigerian mother of three, Sandra brings lived experience and strategic leadership together. She works with mothers, NHS teams, policy leaders, universities, charities, businesses and the media to make sure Black mothers’ voices shape the decisions that affect them.
A decade of momentum
- 2016
The Motherhood Group begins
Founded from a determination to build culturally relevant, community-led support for Black mothers.
- National
Black maternal health becomes impossible to ignore
Through Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK, the Black Maternal Health Conference UK, community campaigns and landmark research, Sandra creates a platform for lived experience at scale.
- Digital
Mumbrite extends the mission
A femtech platform designed to make connection, trusted support and specialist help feel accessible, culturally responsive and within reach.
- 2026
An MBE for a movement
Sandra is recognised in the King’s New Year Honours for services to Black maternal health and social enterprise.
Where Sandra leads
Bridging the gap between community and power.
Sandra is a recognised voice in the conversations that shape maternity care. Her work has informed national taskforces, policy roundtables, research, health-system learning and parliamentary dialogue.
- Founder and CEO, The Motherhood Group
- Founder, Mumbrite
- Founder, Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK
- Founder and host, Black Maternal Health Conference UK
- Member, NMC Midwifery Strategic Advisory Group
- TEDx speaker, author and public storyteller
Recognition
Recognised for public leadership and meaningful professional conversation.
Black in Business winner, amplifying the next chapter of Mumbrite.
Featured for social impact, maternal-health advocacy and entrepreneurial leadership.
For speaking, media, partnerships or leadership conversations.
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