More than 2x
Black women in the UK are more than twice as likely to lose a baby than white women. This is not random. It is patterned.
13%
of at-risk women receive the cervical scan national guidance says they should. Eighty-seven per cent do not.
1 charity
built around closing both gaps, in plain English, with lived experience, in the language of the families it serves.
Three pillars. One continuous arc.
Elkan's Light walks with families through every stage. Before loss happens. When the system fails them. And in the long work of building forward.
PILLAR ONE
Arm
We arm Black, Asian and minoritised women with the information national guidance says they need, in language they recognise, before they need it.
How we arm families
PILLAR TWO
Walk
When loss happens despite everything, we walk forward with families. A twelve-month structured coaching programme, delivered by coaches who lived this.
The Coaching Programme
PILLAR THREE
Change
We push the system that failed us, with evidence. Annual State of the Pathway reports, FOI work, NHS engagement, and the Elkan Protocol.
For professionals
Founded in love. Built on evidence.
Daniel and Joy founded Elkan’s Light following the loss of their son. Their journey began with missed maternity care: national guidance required a cervical length scan that was never offered, despite Joy raising concerns multiple times.
The Trust later acknowledged in writing that opportunities to prevent their loss were missed. In their search for support, they found no UK charity that named race honestly while walking families forward. They built Elkan’s Light to be the race-explicit and authoritative companion minoritised families deserve.
The work, in two places.
A coaching programme for families. An app for women in pregnancy, before pregnancy, and after loss. Built together. Both free at the point of need.
THE COACHING PROGRAMME
A year of walking forward.
Twelve months. Four phases. Coaches who have lived this. Modules on grief, identity, return to work, and being ready, on your own timing.
ELKAN'S COMPANION
The app that waits with you.
Protect Mode through pregnancy. Walk Mode when you choose. The only UK app that carries you across, with you in control.
Find your door
Wherever you are in this, there is a way in.
I am planning a pregnancy
If you have had a LLETZ, cone biopsy, or previous loss, your pathway is not the same as everyone else's. Let us walk you through it.
I am pregnant now
What should be happening at booking. What to ask at scan. What to do if it is not happening. Clear, calm, evidence-led.
I have lost a baby
When you are ready, not before. The Coaching Programme is here, and we are not going anywhere.
If you are pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or recovering from loss, you are welcome here.
This is a charity built by a Black couple in the UK after our son. It is for the women who carry risks the system already knows how to manage. It is for the families who will be left holding pieces no one taught them how to fit back together.