Menopause Education and Awareness Fundraiser

I'm Aline Boblin, founder and CEO of Menopause Knowledge CIC, a not-for-profit initiative where we make a difference to the menopause landscape in communities and the healthcare system.

Why do I do this? Life changed drastically for me in my 40s, when I faced severe perimenopause health issues that were misdiagnosed and unsupported, for the best part of 10 years. Perimenopause is the phase prior to menopause and can last 7 to 12 years. For most women, menopause is the one day after periods have stopped naturally for 12 months, then post menopause starts and hopegully will last decades!

Perimenopause impacted my mental health and my physical health. It led to me derailing out of my life, unable to leave my house due to exhaustion, physically and mentally, and accepting redundancy, ending a 26-year career in aerospace. I searched online, I approached my GPs who sent me to various specialists, I tried a range of holistic approaches, and even self-medicated, never finding an explanation - I thought I may be going mad and I felt hopeless.

When you’re down, the only way is up and with persistent research, I eventually connected the dots on my own and realised the link with menopause symptoms.

From online forums and conversations, I realised I was one of thousands of other women feeling the same with one common denominator: the appalling and shocking lack of evidence-based knowledge and education of our front-line medical professionals, our GPs and surgery nurses. Knowledge. Education. Support. None of this seems readily available for what affects 100% of women, 51% of the population directly, and actually 100% of the whole population. Because whether we are partners, sons, family, friends, employers, we all know a woman.

This MUST change! Knowledge Is Power!

So with 3 other fabulous women, I founded a not-for-profit community initiative to add to the momentum and the campaigning for better knowledge and education, and better community support pathways: Menopause Knowledge CIC

https://www.MenopauseKnowledge.org

Prevention Is Better Than Cure.

Menopause Knowledge has clear objectives:

To accomplish this we really need your help. Getting the word out can’t be done without it. We need insurance, mileage, room booking costs, website costs, marketing tools in signage and PR. Just getting a stand at a big event, a fee has to be paid. We would like to tour to support women, meet medical professionals and do seminars and this will incur financial outlays. Do you want to see changes for your daughters and sons, your descendants or for your own future? Then help us get this message out

Sponsoring Menopause Knowledge is your way to help us concretely - Every little helps! Each donation however small contributes towards actions such as:

✅Free Menopause and Wellbeing consultations

✅It can cost up to £1,500 to organise a free Community Awareness Talk for up to 30 people anywhere in the UK

✅£8,000 keeps us on top of our running costs for one whole year, insurance, mileage, website, room bookings, marketing for community events, volunteers expenses, Zoom and other online tools...

✅£25,000 enables us to collaborate for a whole year with localised healthcare systems and NHS partnerships for menopause education of primary care doctors

Thank you, in advance, for helping us reach those goals.

Aline

Menopause Knowledge