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When we decided to launch Elkan’s Light, people asked the same question in different ways: “Why go public with something so painful?” The answer is simple and impossible at the same time: because keeping quiet would mean accepting that what happened to our son is just “one of those things”. And it isn’t. This first blog post is our way of setting out, in one place, why this charity exists, who it is for, and what we are determined to change. Our son, Elkan On 1 September 2025

Baby loss is one of the most profound griefs a family can carry. For Black, Asian, and minoritised families in the UK, that grief is too often compounded by barriers in care and a lack of culturally sensitive support. Elkan's Light explores what meaningful help looks like.

This World Breastfeeding Week, Elkan's Light celebrates the power of breastfeeding and calls for better support for Black, Asian, and minoritised mothers, whose experiences too often go unheard.

Black mums in the UK face higher risks in pregnancy and birth because of racism and inequality in how care is delivered, not because their bodies are "the problem". This post explains the data, what sits underneath it, and what you can do to protect yourself and your community. The statistics: what the numbers actually say Black women in the UK are more than twice as likely as white women to die during pregnancy, childbirth or the postnatal period. Black babies are also more

There is a reason we called this part of Elkan’s Light the Street Clinic. Hospitals have clinics. Trusts have governance meetings. Boards have strategies. But most of the real conversations about pregnancy, fear, risk and loss happen somewhere else: in WhatsApp chats, church foyers, hair salons, school gates, food banks, shisha cafés, youth clubs, college corridors and crowded living rooms. Street Clinic is our way of taking maternity safety out of the boardroom and into thos