By Tiny Tickers’ Project Support Officer, Vicky Woodmansey One of the messages that we have found to be the most powerful to impart to new parents faced with a congenital heart disease (CHD) diagnosis for their baby, has always been, “You are not alone”. Whether through our printed booklets giving advice from other parents, our…
By Tiny Tickers’ Head of Training, Anne Rhodes As Head of Training for Tiny Tickers, my focus is mainly on delivering training to sonographers and other health professionals that provide obstetric scans. The aim of this is to give health professionals the confidence, knowledge and skills to better spot heart defects during pregnancy screening thus…
By Vicky Gooden I cannot believe it is just over a year since I decided to write a children’s picture book. I remember it distinctly as I had started penning little lines here and there at the top of 2020 and had pretty much finished the first draft just before the first lockdown hit in…
By Tiny Tickers CEO, Jon Arnold On the 17th February 2021, hundreds of charities, including Tiny Tickers, are backing the Right Now #nevermoreneeded Campaign and calling on the government to create an Emergency Support Fund for the third sector. Right now, charities are doing everything they can to make a difference, but resources are running…
Here Katie, our Head of Fundraising and Comms, talks about some other ideas if your fundraising plans have been postponed or cancelled. All of these can be done from home, and from the comfort of your sofa!
By Tiny Tickers CEO, Jon Arnold There’s a famous scene in Finding Nemo where Dory calls Marlin “Mr Grumpy Gills” and asks him “when life gets you down, you know what you got to do?”. The answer, of course, is to “just keep swimming” and, ever since we first watched the movie, it’s been something…
