Still Care project
Still Care is a new strand of work that compliments the multi-award-winning Still Parents programme. Free art workshops for midwives and other health care professionals, and those with lived experience of birth working roles.
Events in 2025
Sunday 1 June, 1pm-4pm – Placard Making
Join us for a powerful afternoon of creativity, care, and connection at our Still Care workshop – a placard-making session inspired by the Women in Revolt! exhibition currently on display, and the emotional realities of working in birthing care.
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Sunday 29 June, 1pm-4pm – Life Drawing
This special Still Care workshop offers midwives, healthcare professionals, and others working in birth roles a space to slow down, observe, and draw from a live female figure model in a supportive, non-judgmental setting. Life drawing invites us to reconnect with the human body – not just as something we treat, support, or manage – but as something beautiful, precious, and worthy of deep care.
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Keep an eye out for future dates by following @whitworthstillparents on Instagram.
For any questions about the project email lucy.turner@manchester.ac.uk
About the Still Care project
Thanks to funding from the Rayne Foundation and Sands charity our ambition is to now not only increase the impact of our work with bereaved parents but also to support the midwives who care for them, through a complimentary programme called Still Care.
We will do this by providing supportive care for midwives and also by contributing towards the educational needs of student midwives to ensure they are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to support bereaved parents.
The Whitworth’s close proximity to the Tommy’s Stillbirth Research Centre and Manchester’s largest maternity centre means this work is well placed. Partnership with bereavement midwives and counsellors, Manchester Sands, Tommy’s research staff, and University lecturers means the next phase is well supported.
By supporting those who care for bereaved parents we hope to make optimal care more certain for grieving parents which will, in turn, contribute towards positive social change and better outcomes for all. Through the ‘Still Parents’ programme we helped tell the story of baby loss and raise awareness of what is considered a taboo subject. We would now like to tell the other side of the story too, allowing midwives the opportunity to tell their stories and highlight the challenges they face.
The Still Parents project is the Whitworth’s award-winning programme to support parents who have experienced the loss of a baby in pregnancy or just after birth.
The Still Parents: Life After Baby Loss exhibition was on display between September 2021 and December 2022. This was the first exhibition of its kind, creating a platform to share personal stories, open up conversations and break the wall of silence that continues to surround baby loss.
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Image: Still Parents workshop, courtesy of the Still Parents project group.
