Libby Mae'S Little Angels
Charity 1153090
Overview
Summary
Libby Mae’s Little Angels appears to occupy a distinctive intermediary role in neonatal care across the Midlands: it raises community support and directs it toward both clinical capability and family experience. Its model combines capital-style investment in equipment with practical and emotional support for parents, including bereavement support. Founded from a family’s experience of neonatal loss, the charity appears to translate lived experience into a broad offer that recognises neonatal care as involving babies, families and hospital teams rather than medical treatment alone.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Edgbaston
Confidence: high
Direct current evidence shows the charity sponsors the Daffodil Intensive Care Room at Birmingham Women's Hospital. Birmingham City Council identifies Birmingham Women's Hospital as being in the Edgbaston ward.
- Libby Mae's Little Angels, 'How We've Helped'
The charity states that it sponsors the Daffodil Intensive Care Room at Birmingham Women's Hospital and provides equipment, family-room improvements and family-support resources to neonatal units. - Birmingham City Council planning record 2023/08471/PA
The record identifies Birmingham Women's Hospital in Edgbaston and records its ward as Edgbaston.
Remaining uncertainties
- The charity's website says it supports neonatal units across the Midlands, while the Charity Commission's current register entry lists Birmingham City and Worcestershire as its areas of operation. The available evidence supports a regional operating identity, but does not provide a current, complete list of neonatal-unit partners or the locations of all funded activity.
- Birmingham Women's Hospital is clear evidence of a continuing delivery partnership in Edgbaston, but the available sources do not establish that Libby Mae's Little Angels owns, leases or runs a permanent site there. The Charity Commission records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The charity advertises fundraising events in Birmingham City Centre, including an event planned for 17 October 2026, but a future one-off event is not sufficient evidence of a current ongoing operational base or service area there.
- The registered address is in Catshill, Bromsgrove and should be treated as a correspondence or administration address rather than evidence of a Birmingham operational site.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees' annual report or an impact report naming each neonatal unit supported during the most recent reporting year, the support provided and the date of delivery.
- Confirmation from Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust of the current status and scope of the Daffodil Intensive Care Room sponsorship and any other active charity-funded provision.
- A current list of formal neonatal-unit partnerships across the Midlands, distinguishing active support from historic donations or occasional visits.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A bridge between neonatal technology and family-centred care
The available evidence suggests the charity treats neonatal outcomes and family wellbeing as interconnected. It funds life-saving equipment while also improving accommodation, communication and bereavement support.
Why it matters
This indicates a wider role than a conventional medical-equipment fundraiser. The organisation may help neonatal units address aspects of care that sit between clinical provision, parent experience and emotional support.
Show evidence
“The charity provides ventilators, incubators, monitors, infusion pumps and transport incubators.”
Source:Organisation“It provides breast pump kits, iPads, parent-accommodation refurbishment, reclining chairs, gifts and memory boxes.”
Source:Organisation“Its objects include relieving sickness through resources and equipment for neo-natal units and relieving distress after the loss of a child.”
Source:Charity Commission
Regional reach may make it a shared resource for neonatal units
Its stated commitment to all neonatal units across the Midlands suggests a regional rather than single-hospital model, potentially enabling support to travel across institutional boundaries.
Why it matters
This may position the charity as a connector around common neonatal needs, with potential insight into recurring equipment and family-support gaps across multiple units.
Show evidence
“The charity supports all neonatal units across the Midlands.”
Source:Organisation“Transport incubators funded by the charity safely transfer over 1,000 babies each year.”
Source:Organisation
Lived experience appears to shape a practical model of care
The organisation appears to have been formed from a family’s experience of neonatal intensive care and loss, which may explain its attention to small but consequential elements of parents’ experience alongside major equipment purchases.
Why it matters
This helps explain why the charity’s activity spans clinical infrastructure, comfort, connection and remembrance. Its distinctive value may lie in recognising needs that are easily overlooked in formal care systems.
Show evidence
“Libby Mae Sharratt was born on 26/04/2013, placed in intensive care and diagnosed with a heart condition.”
Source:Organisation“The charity is family run and was formed in 2013.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides memory boxes for families facing the loss of a baby.”
Source:Organisation
- Which neonatal units receive support, and how resources are prioritised between them.
- Whether the charity works directly with bereaved families or mainly through hospitals.
- How it measures clinical, family-experience or bereavement outcomes.
Remaining uncertainties
- A record of funded projects by hospital, year, value and type of support.
- Information from neonatal units and families about referral, decision-making and the effects of funded resources.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity's objectives are the provision of resources and equipment for neo-natal units to relieve the suffering and emotional distress of persons who have experienced the loss of a child, in particular, but not exclusively by supporting newly bereaved parents by the provision of memory boxes.
Charity objects
THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES AND EQUIPMENT FOR NEO-NATAL UNITS TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF A CHILD, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING NEWLY BEREAVED PARENTS BY THE PROVISION OF MEMORY BOXES