# Baby Loss Retreat

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC048126
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Feb. 9, 2018
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC048126


## Contact

- **Address:** 50 wellington Street room 140, Glasgow, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 6HJ
- **Website:** www.babylossretreat.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Baby Loss Retreat is a Scottish charity providing emotional support to people who have experienced the loss of a baby. This can be through miscarriage, neonatal death, stillbirth, IVF or medical termination.We offer 2 services to families affected by baby loss, counselling and respite. Our counselling service is delivered by professional specialist counsellors and is designed to improve the mental and emotional wellbeing of people dealing with grief and trauma following the loss of a baby. Parents receive an initial assessment session to discuss the process, their mental health, their baby and their needs and goals. This is followed by 6 counselling sessions. Counselling sessions focus on providing parents with a safe and non-judgemental environment to explore their grief. The second service we offer is respite. Families spend 2 days at a retreat to process their grief. Allowing them the time to remember their baby and space away from their busy lives to process their emotions.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** The organisations purposes are: 3.1 The advancement of health. 3.2 To relieve the emotional and psychological suffering, and promote the wellbeing, physical and mental health of parents, families and individuals who have suffered a bereavement following a stillbirth or neonatal death





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** North Lanarkshire
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






