The Lullaby Trust is a charity that exists to keep babies safe and keep grieving families supported. We give families a safer start to life, and create a supportive space for anyone whose baby or infant has died suddenly or unexpectedly. We do this by:
- Empowering parents, carers and professionals with trusted advice on baby safety including safer sleep and infection prevention.
- Funding research into sudden and unexpected death of babies and young children, to save lives.
- Offering anyone affected by the sudden or unexpected death of a baby or young child a supportive space to grieve, with bereavement support.
Nine babies die suddenly and unexpectedly each week in England and Wales. We won’t stop until that number is zero. Our mission is to stop babies dying unexpectedly from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accident or illness.
Each year, we train thousands of health professionals to support parents in sleeping their baby safely. We support around 1,000 families with our bereavement support. We reach millions of families with our baby safety advice, and answer thousands of safer sleep questions from parents and carers. We campaign tirelessly to save lives.
What we've achieved so far:
30000
babies' lives saved since our Back to Sleep campaign in 1991.
80 %
the rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has reduced by 80%.
£ 12 million
invested into research.
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We exist for babies like Sam
If it wasn't for the awareness about infection from The Lullaby Trust, I don't think we'd have taken Sam's temperature. He was in intensive care for a week. But now he is crawling, trying to walk and causing mayhem around the house. We wonder if Sam would be with us now if Laura hadn't seen that Instagram post from The Lullaby Trust.
Laura and Matt, Sam's parents -
We exist for parents like Bridget
Being involved with The Lullaby Trust made us feel as though we were helping ensure other people don’t have to go through what we went through. And things certainly have changed since Paul's death 49 years ago.
Bridget, whose son Paul died of SIDS
You make it all possible
It's generosity and kindness from people like you that empowers parents with baby safety advice and provides a supportive space to anyone whose baby or young child has died suddenly or unexpectedly