AMMA BIRTH COMPANIONS (SCIO) 

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Women's Fund for Scotland - Advocacy and Community Engagement Programme
£9,000	01/03/2024 11	To deliver an Advocacy and Community Engagement Programme for marginalized women in Glasgow
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£10,000	12/07/2023	Purchase of furniture for a charity which works with people facing barriers to accessing maternity care in Glasgow
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£100,000	27/10/2022	25% of running costs over 3-years for Family Peer Support and parenting workshops at a charity supporting asylum seekers in Glasgow.
The Fore - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£15,000	01/04/2022 12	Amma Birth Companions (ABC) is a Glasgow-based charity that builds positive parent-infant relationships by ensuring parents can confidently care for themselves and their babies. ABC is using The Fore ....more Amma Birth Companions (ABC) is a Glasgow-based charity that builds positive parent-infant relationships by ensuring parents can confidently care for themselves and their babies. ABC is using The Fore grant to recruit a Peer Support and Education Coordinator.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core Costs
£1,000	28/03/2022	Towards core costs
Women's Fund for Scotland - Amma Growth - gardening for learning, health and wellbeing
£5,000	15/03/2022	To run a series of gardening drop in sessions and monthly workshops in Glasgow for pregnant and postnatal women from marginalised groups to promote community, reduce isolation, and support women ....more To run a series of gardening drop in sessions and monthly workshops in Glasgow for pregnant and postnatal women from marginalised groups to promote community, reduce isolation, and support women through a challenging time.
Women's Fund for Scotland - Amma Growth - gardening for learning, health and wellbeing
£5,000	15/03/2022	To run a series of gardening drop in sessions and monthly workshops in Glasgow for pregnant and postnatal women from marginalised groups to promote community, reduce isolation, and support women ....more To run a series of gardening drop in sessions and monthly workshops in Glasgow for pregnant and postnatal women from marginalised groups to promote community, reduce isolation, and support women through a challenging time.
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£20,000	08/03/2022	Towards a support programme for people who experience discrimination and systemic inequalities in the realms of reproductive, pregnancy and postnatal care.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£180,000	02/11/2021 36	towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for asylum seekers who are pregnant or have recently given birth in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£1,500	16/09/2021	Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Providing specialist support to vulnerable birthing people in Glasgow
£150,636	13/08/2021	The group will use the funding to improve birth pregnancy and postnatal outcomes for vulnerable birthing people in Glasgow. Working with some of the most marginalised within the community volunteer ....more The group will use the funding to improve birth pregnancy and postnatal outcomes for vulnerable birthing people in Glasgow. Working with some of the most marginalised within the community volunteer birth companions will provide one to one emotional and practical support during the perinatal phase through birth and into the early postnatal weeks.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Amma Birth Companions (SCIO)
£5,000	12/06/2020	To provide both technological equipment and virtual pre and post-natal support to asylum-seeking, refugee, trafficked and other vulnerable women in Glasgow, reducing their sense of isolation and ....more To provide both technological equipment and virtual pre and post-natal support to asylum-seeking, refugee, trafficked and other vulnerable women in Glasgow, reducing their sense of isolation and supporting their mental health at a time of extreme change i
National Lottery Community Fund - Amma Birth Companions
£10,000	22/04/2020 12	This group will us the funding to employ a part time administrator to help meet the increasing demand for their services.
Women's Fund for Scotland - Grant to Amma Birth Companions
£4,530	06/03/2020 11	to contribute towards volunteer birth companions to 40 isolated women over the course of a year.
National Lottery Community Fund - Amma Birth Companions
£10,000	15/04/2019 12	This group will use the funding to train and provide Birth Companions to isolated or vulnerable women who are facing birth alone.

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Trustees

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Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 08/05/2019, number: SC049280

Filing Record

Main office

5th Floor, 51 Cadogan Square, Glasgow, G2 7HF

Objectives

The organisation's purposes are: The advancement of health in Scotland for women who experience health inequalities by providing trained, nurturing birth companions who offer practical and emotional support, advocacy and information around birth. Through this we aim to reduce fear,overcome barriers, improve birthing outcomes and ensure women's voices are heard. The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage in Scotland for women who are isolated and facing adversity on their journey to motherhood and their children by providing post-natal support and group activities, creating opportunities for friendships and integration and giving babies a better start.