Founder · CEO · author · TEDx speaker · advocate

Sandra Igwe MBEA leading UK voice in Black maternal health.

Sandra Igwe MBE in a blue floral portrait

Founder and CEO of The Motherhood Group. Founder of Mumbrite. Award-winning social entrepreneur, keynote speaker, commentator and NHS cultural competency trainer working across Black maternal health, Black maternal mental health, maternity care and women’s leadership 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 Social Enterprise.

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Sandra Igwe MBE in a blue floral portrait
Princess Anne presenting Sandra Igwe MBE at Windsor Castle
10 yearsof impact

From mothers’ stories to the rooms where national decisions are made.

Founder and CEO, The Motherhood Group✦Founder, Mumbrite✦Channel 4 and Lloyds Black in Business winner✦LinkedIn Top Voice✦Mother of three
18,450+Black mothers and pregnant women in the community 7,000+professionals trained in Black maternal health and cultural competency 8,000+mothers connected through Mumbrite’s growing digital community 700+delegates at the flagship Black Maternal Health Conference UK
Sandra Igwe MBE at 10 Downing Street

In public life

Six visits to 10 Downing Street. One purpose.

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

Not a single-lane career. Ten hats. One mission.

Sandra operates as a founder, chief executive, femtech builder, public spokesperson, educator, policy contributor, researcher, conference host, author and cultural storyteller.

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Sandra Igwe MBE holding an award in recognition of her work
Recognition for work rooted in community, purpose and change.
Sandra Igwe MBE with health and community partners

Partnership with purpose

Change happens when every sector shows up.

Across health, public, corporate and community settings, Sandra works with organisations ready to listen better, act with care and be accountable to Black mothers.

500+ public, corporate, NHS and community organisations partnered with across the work40+ NHS trusts reached through professional education and partnership work
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The woman behind the work

The work began with my own story. It now belongs to a much bigger movement.

Meet Sandra
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Rooted in lived experience.

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.

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Two ventures. One mission.

Building the future that Black mothers deserve.

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.

The Motherhood Group

Community · campaigns · training · research

The Motherhood Group

A landmark Black maternal-health organisation supporting mothers and families through community, mental health, peer support, advocacy, training, research and national moments of change.

Mumbrite

Femtech · connection · specialist support

Mumbrite

The maternal wellbeing platform helping mothers discover trusted support, find community, access specialists and rebuild confidence in one culturally responsive home.

The landmark work

Community first.
Systems changed.

Not one lane. A connected body of work across public health, policy, culture, digital innovation and everyday support for mothers.

Sandra Igwe MBE opening the Black Maternal Health Conference UK 2026

Conference founder and host

Black Maternal Health Conference UK

A landmark national convening where mothers, clinicians, researchers, policymakers and partners come together to shape better care.

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National campaign pioneer

Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK

A powerful annual platform that centres Black mothers’ joy, justice, stories and calls for better maternal mental-health support.

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Sandra Igwe MBE and Black mothers campaigning outside Parliament
Sandra Igwe MBE launching the Black Maternal Mental Health report

Training · policy · research

Making the system listen

From NHS training to national taskforces, research collaborations and parliamentary conversations, Sandra brings Black mothers’ lived experience to the centre.

See the public work

“When mothers are visible, the whole system has to pay attention.”

Community is not an add-on. It is where change starts.

On stage, in the room

Sandra Igwe MBE delivering a keynote speech
Keynotes · panels · facilitation

A speaker who brings the room with her.

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.

  • Black maternal health and health equity
  • Motherhood, identity and leadership
  • Community as infrastructure
  • Turning lived experience into policy and practice

Selected rooms and conversations

The work travels.

NHS EnglandDHSCNMCTEDxBBCChannel 4VogueForbesMetaVodafoneMBRRACE-UKUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of ExeterHouse of CommonsHouse of Lords
Sandra Igwe in conversation at an event

Words can hold a story
long enough for the world
to see it.

Author and storyteller

Stories that make room for us.

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

Choose the room. Sandra will bring the change.

From a keynote that shifts the conversation to a commissioned programme with lasting community impact, there is a way to work together.

Sandra Igwe holding her MBE medal at Windsor

The conversation starts here

Have a conversation with me.

For speaking, partnerships, press, programmes or a bold idea that needs the right people around it, get in touch.

sandra@themotherhoodgroup.com Follow @sandeeigwe