Founder · CEO · author · TEDx speaker · advocate
Founder and CEO of The Motherhood Group. Founder of Mumbrite. Award-winning social entrepreneur, campaign pioneer and maternal-health leader working to make Black motherhood visible, heard and impossible to ignore.
Recognised with an MBE in the 2026 King’s New Year Honours for services to Black maternal health and social enterprise.
From mothers’ stories to the rooms where national decisions are made.
In public life
As a six-time Downing Street guest and speaker, Sandra brings the expertise, urgency and lived reality of Black motherhood into the rooms where national conversations are shaped.
Her work moves between community rooms, Parliament, Government convenings, national taskforces and the media because the people most affected must be present wherever decisions are made.
The work, in full
Sandra operates as a founder, chief executive, femtech builder, public spokesperson, educator, policy contributor, researcher, conference host, author and cultural storyteller.
Explore the ten hats
From finalist to 2026 winner
£200,000 in national advertising airtime. A bespoke television campaign. Strategic marketing and business support. The win gives Mumbrite, the culturally responsive maternal wellbeing platform Sandra founded, a bigger stage for its mission.
Read the Channel 4 announcementThe woman behind the work
I am a British-Nigerian mother of three, a founder, author and one of the UK’s leading advocates for Black maternal health. My own experience of feeling unseen in maternity care became a lifelong commitment to change.
I build community power, turn lived experience into policy influence, train the people who deliver care and create platforms that make support feel culturally relevant, human and within reach.
Read my story, leadership and recognitionTwo ventures. One mission.
From the first WhatsApp conversations to national campaigns, NHS delivery and a digital platform used by thousands, the work is built to travel from community to system.
Community · campaigns · training · research
A landmark Black maternal-health organisation supporting mothers and families through community, mental health, peer support, advocacy, training, research and national moments of change.
Femtech · connection · specialist support
The maternal wellbeing platform helping mothers discover trusted support, meet people who understand, access Live Spaces and find specialist help in one culturally responsive home.
The landmark work
Not one lane. A connected body of work across public health, policy, culture, digital innovation and everyday support for mothers.
Conference founder and host
A landmark national convening where mothers, clinicians, researchers, policymakers and partners come together to shape better care.
Explore the conferenceNational campaign pioneer
A powerful annual platform that centres Black mothers’ joy, justice, stories and calls for better maternal mental-health support.
Read the landmark report
Training · policy · research
From NHS training to national taskforces, research collaborations and parliamentary conversations, Sandra brings Black mothers’ lived experience to the centre.
See the impact“When mothers are visible, the whole system has to pay attention.”
Community is not an add-on. It is where change starts.In the room, on the stage, at the table
On stage, in the room
Sandra speaks with candour, warmth and practical insight about Black maternal health, leadership, racism and bias, culture, community, maternity systems and what it takes to create lasting change.
She makes the work clear, human and impossible to sidestep, whether she is opening a national conference, facilitating a leadership room or bringing lived experience to a boardroom conversation.
Selected rooms and conversations
Words can hold a story
long enough for the world
to see it.
Author and storyteller
My Black Motherhood is a personal and political invitation to understand Black motherhood beyond the stereotypes. It is the book Sandra needed, and a call for mothers to be listened to, believed and understood.
Let us make something matter
From a keynote that shifts the conversation to a commissioned programme with lasting community impact, there is a way to work together.
Keynotes, panels, facilitation and powerful public conversations.
↗02Commission The Motherhood GroupTraining, engagement, research, programmes and community insight.
↗03Work with SandraFounder mentoring, leadership conversations and creative collaboration.
↗04Partner and collaborateStrategic partnerships, campaigns, media and shared work with purpose.
↗The conversation starts here
For speaking, partnerships, press, programmes or a bold idea that needs the right people around it, get in touch.
sandra@themotherhoodgroup.com