GATHERED

Conversation, Connection & Community for South East London Mums

What Gathered says

Overwhelmed by motherhood, or maybe underwhelmed by it? Fascinated by it, or furious about it? Whatever your experience, come and share your thoughts and feelings about motherhood, mothering, and the huge identity shift that comes with becoming a mum, with us at Gathered.

Gathered is a weekly conversation circle, and wider membership community, for mums who want to talk honestly and authentically about the realities of modern motherhood. From the mental load to matrescence, we discuss the cultural, political, societal, emotional, downright ‘brutiful’ (brutal and beautiful) experience of becoming a mother.

You’ll find support on the tough days, share the wins on the good ones, and find a space where both the odd tear and a good laugh are both always welcome. And, as you’d expect from any good mum group, Gathered is also a place you can offload about the eye-burning sleep deprivation, or the annoying unsolicited parenting advice, share tried and trusted recommendations, and swap low-brow Netflix favourites, too.

About

Gathered was a covid baby: conceived somewhere around that weird summer when we were eating out to help out, and born just before that Christmas when everything was cancelled. Three of us East Dulwich mums were sat around, thanks to whatever new ‘rule of 6’ type thing was currently permitted, surrounded by small children and chaos, trying to work out how to make something, anything, a bit better for ourselves and all the other local mums we knew.

No one had been allowed to gather for what felt like forever. Mums had been giving birth in isolation. Support was mostly on screens. And the idea of sitting in a room with a whole group of other mums, indoors with coffee, even two metres apart and wearing masks, felt like actual heaven.

When “mum and baby support groups” were finally allowed to meet again (in real life!), we commandeered the East Dulwich community centre, shipped in coffees from Spinach and brought together the new mums of South East London. Awkwardly distanced, faces half covered, with foggy glasses and babies wriggling on 2m distanced mats, or in tiny island-spaced playpens so they didn’t crawl into each other. We gathered.

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Gathered Team