Leaving a gift to The Iolanthe Midwifery Trust in your Will
A gift in your Will, regardless of size, will live on in the lives of future generations of midwives and the benefits will cascade through the ages.
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Do you think midwives have access to a huge number of grants?
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Do you think midwives have ready access to funds to pay for courses, travel, research and to increase their knowledge and skills?
The answer to both these questions is simply: NO - sadly, they don’t.
There are some ambitious new career midwives who yearn to learn. Others want to start ground breaking research. And many more cannot afford to enrol in courses or travel to an elective placement
There is a real paucity of grants to empower advancement and grow skills and knowledge. This is where we come in.
We have given over 400 grants in the past and the demand for our grants is growing with over 16,000 midwives currently in the UK.
Leaving a legacy gift can be a great way of leaving a future donation to the IMT even if you are not necessarily in a financial position to do so right now.
Making a Will
A Will is a legal letter of love which enables you to pass on what you choose to family, friends and charities.
If you already have a Will
All you need to do is decide the type of gift:
It can be an affordable sum of money
or a % of what you are worth. The % can be from 1% to 100% - whatever suits you.
Your Will writer will need to know:
Our Registered Charity Number: 1191317
And our name: The Iolanthe Midwifery Trust
If you do not have a Will
You can find a local solicitor
in England and Wales Find a Solicitor - The Law Society
in Scotland Find a Solicitor | Law Society of Scotland
in Northern Ireland Finding a Solicitor | The Law Society of Northern Ireland
or you can use a service like Make a Will Online: the only solicitor-checked online wills service*
If you have already put The Iolanthe Midwifery Trust in your Will
A huge thank you for such a thoughtful and meaningful gift. You do not have to tell us your intentions but if you do then we can say thank you
Please contact
Chris Ross
Philanthropy Officer
*Please note that these suggestions do not imply a recommendation by the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust
Below are some previous award winners. Every winner has increased their knowledge and advanced their career. Legacy gifts make a contribution to every award we make.
Victoria Brown received the Midwifery Research Fellowship for her PhD, "An exploration into birthing pool use for labour and/or birth for women having a vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC): a mixed methods study."
Afshan Ali and Susan Holbourn won the Jean Davies Award for their project to develop and deliver equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) training for midwifery academic staff.
Arezou Rezvani and Heather Reeves received the Dora Opoku Midwives Award to fund service user and translator "thanks" vouchers to improve communication and health awareness for pregnant women with language barriers.
Kurt Lee won the Dora Opoku Award for Black and Brown student midwives and will collaborate with Amma Birth Companions to create a workshop for his student cohort, entitled "Working with Asylum-seeking and Refugee Families in Maternity Care”.
Sophia Hatfield received the Mary Cronk Award to invite the Physiological Breech Birth Network to deliver a study day on physiological breech birth.
Lesley Roe and Laura Atherton won the Norah Faith Coniam Award to host a study day on bereavement care.
Kaat De Backer received the Nicolette Peel Award to put together a multidisciplinary conference entitled "Women on the edge of care in the perinatal period”.
The four winners of Iolanthe's Student Awards for 2025 are: Emma Bliss-Harding, Sara Gonzales Buesa, Alice O'Leary, and Rachel Barnes.
The eight Iolanthe Midwives Award Winners for 2025 are: Sophia Hatfield, Jude Field, Zoe Page, Lucy Nelson, Zoi Vardavaki, Sarah Coiffait, Eve Cottingham, and Bryany Tweedale.
Here you can find out more about our previous winners and the work we have funded through our awards programme:
