The Rose And Daisy Foundation
Charity 1184999
Overview
Summary
The Rose And Daisy Foundation appears to occupy a focused but connective role in perinatal and neonatal bereavement support across Worcestershire and the West Midlands. Its model combines practical, emotionally symbolic support for individual families with an ambition to improve how hospital trusts communicate and deliver bereavement care. This suggests it is not only filling an immediate support gap, but attempting to influence the consistency and humanity of institutional care at a particularly vulnerable point for parents.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as one of several places where the charity operates, but neither the register nor the organisation's current website identifies a Birmingham ward, City Centre location, hospital, or other delivery venue.
- The organisation's charitable objects and service model indicate support delivered through hospital teams and to families in intensive-care and bereavement settings, but the currently supported hospitals and the locations receiving boxes are not publicly specified in usable detail.
- Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital appear in the organisation's founders' personal histories, but this is not sufficient evidence that either is a current delivery partner or operational site.
- The charity's registered/principal office is outside Birmingham. Charity Commission data states that it owns or leases no land or property, so there is no evidence of a Birmingham physical site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current official list of hospitals, NHS trusts, wards or maternity/neonatal units receiving Rose's Boxes, wellbeing boxes or memory bears.
- Confirmation from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, or another Birmingham NHS provider, that it currently receives and distributes the charity's support materials.
- The latest trustees' annual report or impact report with delivery locations and numbers of families or boxes supported by hospital or local authority area.
- If the organisation operates a Birmingham-based support group, its current status and the area in which it operates; the website currently says its Bromsgrove support groups are suspended.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A dual role: family support and care-system improvement
The foundation appears to work at two levels: directly easing distress for families and seeking more consistent hospital communication and bereavement care across trusts.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a purely peer-support or fundraising charity. Its potential value may include reducing avoidable harm caused by fragmented clinical administration as well as providing comfort after loss.
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“The objects include supporting parents in hospital, promoting information after loss, and promoting cross-trust communication.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include working with trusts to ensure bereaved parents receive universal care of the same standard across trusts.”
Source:Charity Commission
Material gifts appear designed as forms of care, not simply fundraising products
Rose's Boxes, wellbeing boxes and weighted memory bears appear to translate complex experiences of intensive care and bereavement into tangible, targeted support for families.
Why it matters
This may make the foundation especially relevant to hospitals and family-support organisations seeking practical ways to acknowledge loss, sustain memory and support parental wellbeing when clinical care alone is insufficient.
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“The website states that £15 provides a Rose's Box to a family on children's intensive care.”
Source:Organisation“The website states that £25 supplies bereaved parents with a wellbeing box and £45 gifts a bereaved family a custom weighted Daisy's Memory Bear.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation may act as a bridge across a fragmented support landscape
Its remit spans intensive-care families, miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss and infant loss, while its objects allow donations to causes with similar aims. This may indicate a bridging role between hospital-based support and other specialist bereavement organisations.
Why it matters
The foundation could be a useful connector where families' needs move between maternity, neonatal, paediatric and community bereavement settings, though the organisations it currently partners with are unknown.
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“The charity supports families affected by neonatal loss, infant loss, stillbirth, miscarriage, or a baby in intensive care.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects permit donations to other charitable causes with similar objectives where trustees consider this acceptable.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which hospital trusts, clinical teams and other charities the foundation currently works with.
- Whether support is available directly to families, through referrals, or only via participating hospitals.
- How far its cross-trust consistency ambition has changed policy or family experience.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or impact data showing beneficiaries, locations, referral routes and outcomes.
- Details of trust partnerships, service agreements and examples of changes to bereavement communication or care.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To relieve the emotional and physical distress of parents and their families that have experienced the death of a baby through neonatal loss, infant loss, stillbirth or miscarriage or have a baby in intensive care.
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO RELIEVE THE EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS OF PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED THE DEATH OF A BABY THROUGH NEONATAL LOSS, INFANT LOSS, STILLBIRTH AND MISCARRIAGE OR HAVE A BABY IN INTENSIVE CARE THROUGHOUT WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS BY: A) SUPPORTING PARENTS WHILST CURRENTLY IN HOSPITAL WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND PROVIDING HELP WHEN REQUIRED. B) SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING INFORMATION TO PARENTS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF A CHILD. C) TO PROMOTE CROSS TRUST COMMUNICATION TO PREVENT PARENTS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED A LOSS OR WHO ARE IN HOSPITAL RECEIVING LETTERS, PHONE CALLS ETC. ABOUT SUBJECTS SUCH AS POST-NATAL CHECKS. D) TO MAKE DONATIONS TO OTHER CHARITABLE CAUSES THAT HAVE SIMILAR OBJECTIVES TO OURS, IF DEEMED ACCEPTABLE BY OUR TRUSTEES. E) WORKING WITH TRUSTS TO ENSURE CARE GIVEN TO BEREAVED PARENTS IS UNIVERSAL AND TO THE SAME STANDARD ACROSS TRUSTS.