Our Starting Well project

Moving forward on the next stage of our project with The Lantern Initiative, our local partners who work within Peterborough’s Muslim communities, we have focused on three common themes identified in our Insight Report from our earlier work together.

Exploring the strengths, skills and assets available, we moved into the 'Make' phase of our Service Design process, piloting our Connecting Muslim Mums courses focusing on mental health experiences and managing wellbeing during this vital perinatal period.

Mums attending told us that the six-week programme has appealed to them for a number of reasons; exploring wellbeing while acknowledging their faith, being able to talk openly and better understanding self-care.

“The way they ran the course, explained things to me, so gently, she made me see things differently, make it easier to understand myself.”

We now plan to increase our Muslim Mum Peer Support Groups too. At the same time, we are working with professionals and communities on signposting mums to other services to support them and tackling removing the stigma of asking for help and support both professionally and at home.