Founder, public spokesperson, educator, policy contributor, author and cultural force. Sandra has built a body of work that keeps Black mothers visible in every room where care, culture and national decisions are shaped.
18,450+Black mothers and pregnant women in The Motherhood Group community
7,000+healthcare professionals trained in Black maternal health and cultural competency
£200kChannel 4 advertising airtime won for Mumbrite in 2026
6×guest and speaker at 10 Downing Street
The ten hats
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One person. Ten powerful ways to move the work forward.
The roles are distinct, but the work is joined up. Sandra builds community infrastructure, takes lived experience into policy, trains the professionals who deliver care, creates cultural moments, develops digital tools and makes sure Black mothers are not missing from the public story.
Choose a hat to see the work, the evidence and the places it reaches.
01 · Founder & chief executive
Building the infrastructure Black mothers were told did not exist.
As Founder and CEO of The Motherhood Group, Sandra turned grassroots conversations into a nationally recognised Black maternal-health social enterprise. The work holds community, mental health, peer support, research, training, public advocacy and national convening together.
18,450+ Black mothers and pregnant women in community
Landmark programmes, campaigns, research and support
Built from lived experience, governed by community purpose
Designing digital support around real mothers’ lives.
Sandra founded Mumbrite, The Motherhood Group’s culturally responsive maternal-wellbeing platform. It brings trusted support, specialists, peer connection, live spaces and community into one place, built for mothers who are too often designed out of mainstream services.
8,000+ mothers connected through the platform and community
Channel 4 and Lloyds Black in Business winner 2026
£200,000 in Channel 4 advertising airtime plus a bespoke TV campaign and support package
Making Black maternal mental health impossible to overlook.
Sandra founded Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK, a national platform that creates visibility, shared language and practical calls to action around the mental health of Black mothers. It turns stories of isolation, racism and resilience into public accountability.
Annual national campaign with mothers at the centre
2026 theme: Joy, Justice and Journey
Campaign film presented at the DHSC National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce and Expert Reference Group event
As Founder and Host of the Black Maternal Health Conference UK, Sandra convenes mothers, clinicians, researchers, policymakers, advocates, charities and partners for a national conversation rooted in evidence, lived experience and action.
Flagship Black maternal health conference in the UK
700+ delegates, including policymakers, clinicians and community leaders
Built as a space for public accountability, practical solutions and collective care
Sandra is a public voice on Black maternal health, systemic racism, maternal mental health, social enterprise and women’s leadership. Her commentary makes the evidence human, and the human story impossible to disregard.
Appeared across CNN, BBC, ITV, Sky News, Channel 4 and Channel 5
Recent Sky News interview on maternity systemic racism and accountability
Featured in Vogue, Forbes, The Guardian and national press
Taking Black mothers’ voices into the rooms where policy is made.
Sandra contributes to national decision-making across maternity, neonatal equity and midwifery. Her work is rooted in community knowledge, but it travels confidently through government, Parliament, professional bodies and health-system leadership.
National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce Health Equity Expert Reference Group
NMC Midwifery Strategic Advisory Group member
NHS England Maternity and Neonatal Equity Steering Group contributor
Government roundtables, parliamentary discussions and six Downing Street guest and speaking engagements
Changing care by changing what professionals know, feel and do.
Sandra leads culturally responsive Black maternal-health and cultural-competency training with NHS trusts and organisations. Her approach is grounded in lived experience, evidence and the practical reality of delivering better care tomorrow morning.
7,000+ healthcare professionals trained
CPD-accredited cultural competency and diverse motherhood learning
Work delivered with NHS trusts, public bodies, employers and partners across the UK
Turning what mothers say into evidence that systems must answer.
Research is part of Sandra’s practice, not an afterthought. She works with academic, charity and health partners to turn community knowledge into reports, briefings, recommendations and a sharper case for change.
The UK’s largest Black Maternal Mental Health Report
Work with Centre for Mental Health and Maternal Mental Health Alliance
Contributor to research, policy and practice conversations across health and academia
Writing the stories and arguments that make room for Black motherhood.
Sandra is the author of My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System, a personal and political book that asks readers to take Black mothers’ experiences seriously. Her TEDx talk continues that work on a global stage.
Author of My Black Motherhood
Selected for the NHS-backed Reading Well programme
TEDxKingsCollegeLondon speaker on Black and ethnic minority mothers and compromised mental health
From campaign films and conferences to social storytelling, community events and cultural partnerships, Sandra knows that public imagination matters. Her work refuses the narrow stories told about Black women, motherhood, family and ambition.
Creator and host of Make Black Mothers Visible
Digital storyteller and LinkedIn Top Voice
Community builder who makes space for joy, justice, family and cultural connection
At home in the rooms where national decisions are made.
A six-time guest and speaker at 10 Downing Street, Sandra brings the detail, urgency and solutions of Black maternal health directly to senior decision-makers.
Department of Health and Social Care
From community evidence to the national maternity and neonatal agenda.
At the DHSC National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce and Expert Reference Group event, Sandra presented the Black Maternal Mental Health Week campaign film and took the call for maternal justice directly to the national table.
Not just invited into the conversation. Trusted to help shape it.
Sandra’s advisory work makes sure that Black mothers’ expertise is not an afterthought when policy, professional standards, workforce learning and maternity care are designed.
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National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce
Health Equity Expert Reference Group
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Nursing and Midwifery Council
Midwifery Strategic Advisory Group
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NHS England
Maternity and Neonatal Equity Steering Group
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Parliament and Government
Roundtables, committees, policy discussions and public evidence
Selected public moments
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The proof is in the rooms, the people and the pictures.
Parliament Square
Joy, Justice, Journey.
Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK in public, with the movement visible at the heart of Westminster.
National convening
Founder. Host. Builder.
Creating a national platform for Black maternal health that brings a whole system into the room.
Partnership in practice
From community to corporate rooms.
Building programmes where mothers, mentors, brands and partners do meaningful work together.
Parliamentary conversationsDHSC conveningMBE recognitionCulture and communityFamily, culture and public life
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