Offering social, emotional and informational support through menstruation, pregnancy, birth and menopause
The Nest Southwest Community Interest Company is a not-for-profit social enterprise that hosts regular groups, workshops and creates vital peer support networks.
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What We Do
Our Goals
Our goal is to support you to be your best self and this is at the core of everything we offer. Our peer support groups are a safe space where you can share your journey with others and strengthen your inner resilience. Our volunteer programs build on your previous experiences to develop your skills.
We want to help you make informed choices that are best for you and provide quality information you can trust. Our informational support comes through our local support groups, our hand picked library, the curated resource sections on the website, our workshops and social media campaigns.
We are a women-led grass roots social enterprise with the mission to help create a more informed, confident, ecologically aware community that respects rites of passage. We want everyone to emerge empowered by their experiences to go on and support others.
How we do it
Our Services
MENOPAUSE CAFE: A drop in open space for anyone interested in talking about peri/menopause. Book Here.
NESTERS: Weekly pregnancy & beyond support group. Book Here.
NESTLINGS: New mums group for Nesters graduates. Book Here
RED TENT: A monthly women’s group to share support, information and stories relating to the menstrual cycle. Book Here.
Podcast: Listen to our regular podcast talking to guests about subjects relating to menstruation, pregnancy, birth or menopause HERE
Youtube: Catch up with our webinars and other videos HERE
HIRE, BORROW, BUY: Birth pool, TENS machine, birth balls and a hand chosen library of books. Book Here.
PERINATAL PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: A group of mums who have been trained to support other mums on their journey through matrescence. Interested? Get in touch.
TRANSITIONEERS: We are training a cohort of volunteers as Menstrual Empowerment Educators to deliver menstrual wellbeing workshops in Exeter secondary schools. Learn More.
BLOG: Check out our posts to see what we are currently talking about.
RESOURCES: Our ever-growing list of resources on each life transition page is also the perfect place to start learning about each topic: Menstruation. Pregnancy & birth. Menopause.
REPORT: Read our report into the experiences of 243 women and menstruators in Devon. HERE
SHARING: Our Social Media Campaign aims to inspire via social platforms. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
COMMUNITY: We have a WhatsApp Group for our Nesters & Nestlings members and create a sense of community in other ways in order to inspire women to come together and share their experiences, questions, and knowledge.
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Our Organisation in Numbers
7
Perinatal Peer Supporters
10
Transitioneers Period Empowerment Volunteers
64
Pregnancy & Beyond Support groups held in 17 months
1
Mission
The Nest is the place for you if ANY of these statements are true for you…
- You have a vagina
- You menstruate
- You are perimenopausal
- You are menopausal
- You are post-menopausal
- You are pregnant
- You have given birth
- You want to find out more about any (or all) of these amazing life transitions!
We know that not all people who menstruate are women, and not all women menstruate. Our services are available to all people with a menstrual cycle and/or a uterus, non-binary & trans people. Read Our Full Equality Statement Here.
“Safe Place”
The Nest is a safe place to be heard, to ask questions, and to meet other mums.
Natalie, Member of Nesters group
“Important”
Talking to other new mums and some second time mums, who have felt completely abandoned and without support this year because of the covid era services – makes me realise just how important The Nest has been.
Jen, Member of Nesters group
“All parts of the journey”
This group includes ladies on all parts of the journey, which helps to provide valuable first hand experience for others to listen and learn from.
Felicity, Member of Nesters group
Things that matter to us:
Read our blog posts
- Community Day
Our social media intern, Yasmeen Louis, guest writes this post about her experience during our Community Day last April 4th. - Happy International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women’s Day! Every year the 8th March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. It is a collective world wide effort for gender equality, not owned by any one single organisation as it is something that we all needContinue reading “Happy International Women’s Day!” - Grief, and what do we do with it?
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