Baby Loss Awareness Week
Baby Loss Awareness Week (9 - 15 October 2025)
At SPACE, we recognise that every loss matters, regardless of gestational weeks. Loss is loss, whether that loss was experienced through failed IVF, an early or later miscarriage, a stillbirth or a neonatal loss. Everyone’s story matters. We also recognise that childlessness caused by infertility is a unique form of loss that needs to be grieved as well. So there is also a space for you here too…
Baby Loss Awareness Week is such an important yet sensitive time for so many of our community, so we’ve included a short round up of a few different ways to mark the week or take part below.
Join the Wave of Light
You can join the annual Global Wave of Light to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week by lighting a candle on 15th October at 7pm (UK time) - and leave it burning for one hour in memory of every baby who lit up our lives for a short time.
To help spread awareness, you could also take a photo or video clip of your candle burning and post it to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #WaveOfLight
Remembrance Service at St George’s Hall (NHS)
Liverpool Women’s Hospital is hosting it’s annual Baby Loss Service of Remembrance on Wednesday 8th October at St George’s Hall in Liverpool city centre again this year.
There are two service options to attend :-
Early service: Doors open at 4.30pm with refreshments. Service will begin at 5.30pm. Early service is for children and adults to attend.
Later service: Doors open at 7.15pm with refreshments. Service will begin at 8pm. Late service is for adults only.
The hospital’s Honeysuckle Bereavement team are inviting families who wish to have their babies remembered at our service to complete the form in the attached link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/V3081WLCLy by 18th September 2025.
Visit the In-Memory Sky (Tommy’s)
Dedicate a star to the ‘In Memory Sky’ on the Tommy’s charity website to remember your much-missed baby. Not only is a beautiful way to remember them, your small donation will help to fund their vital research work into how to prevent miscarriage and baby loss.
Anchored in Hope
As part of Baby Loss Awareness Week, Audacious Church in Manchester is hosting a day event called Anchored in Hope on Saturday 11 October, from 10am - 3.30pm at the Audacious Central Campus.
It will be a safe and supportive space, with worship, teaching, tailored sessions, and a remembrance service to honour and remember babies. Whether you have a personal story or want to support someone you love, you are welcome. Lunch will be provided, and every detail will be treated with sensitivity and care. Cost is £7 including lunch.
Sign up here: audac.us/anchored.
Wave of Light Event (Elsie’s Moon)
Elsie’s Moon charity are hosting a Wave of Light Event on Wednesday 15 October, from 6 - 8pm at Mercure Abbott’s Well in Chester. It will be an evening of crafts, tea, cake and a 7pm wave of light in the gardens (weather permitting), supported by the beautiful voice of James Benn.
This is a FREE event, funded by the charity - but please register here to help them plan for catering numbers. Free parking is also available - please ensure you enter your registration on arrival.
(Note: Please be mindful that this is a family friendly event - so pregnant families, babies and children may be in attendance)
Remembrance Services (Saying Goodbye)
The Saying Goodbye charity run by Zoe Clarke-Coates hosts a number of Baby Loss Remembrance Services for bereaved parents in cathedrals across the country, as well as online.
To find further details about services happening across the country this October, go to Saying Goodbye Remembrance Services
Memorial & Reflection Service (Ebenezer Chapel)
A church in north Liverpool, Ebenezer Chapel (Queen’s Drive, Liverpool, L4 6SQ) are hosting a special memorial and reflection service for BLAW on 10th October 2025 at 7pm.
The service will last around one hour, and will include songs, a short talk, prayer and time for individual reflection. Tea & coffee will be served afterwards. All are welcome.