Our Story
Five X More is committed to highlighting and changing Black maternal health outcomes in the UK. We support Black women and birthing people with our resources, train health professionals and lobby for change. Founded in 2019 and based in London, Five X More is 100% passionate about advocacy.
We started Five X More through my (Tinuke’s) experience of giving birth to my son in 2017. When I was diagnosed late with preeclampsia, I run a group called Mums and Tea where mums get together, and talk about all things pregnancy and motherhood. Through running Mums and Tea and sharing my story of pregnancy. I realised that my negative story wasn't the only one. There were so many other Black mums like me who also experienced negative outcomes given birth within the NHS. When I heard the statistics back in 2018 that Black women at the time were five times more likely to die, I was shocked but I wasn't surprised due to the stories I heard.
I contacted Clo, who at the time ran an organisation called Prosperitys, where she supports, ethnic minorities women during the perinatal stage. We got together as I wanted to do an event, to highlight the disparities that women face because I wanted to change the statistics. It's not right that Black women are dying. Instead of doing an event, we ended up starting a whole organisation and birthed Five X More.
Five X More Co-founders
Tinuke
Tinuke is the co-founder of Five X More CIC - an organisation campaigning for Black maternal health outcomes in the UK. She is also the founder of Mums & Tea - a social platform aimed at connecting Black mums together.
All in all, Black motherhood/ parenthood is important to Tinuke and creating spaces and resources to help with the advancement of the community means everything to her.
Clo
Clo is co-founder of Five X More, an organisation founded in 2019 and named in relation to the findings from the MBRRACE studies that Black women were five times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white women (the current stats show Black women are still four times more likely to die).
She has worked in different hospitals in London on the maternity unit.
Clo was an Expert by experience for NHSE/I working on The Ockenden report to develop the Maternity and Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate role and founded Prosperitys a maternal well-being social enterprise which supports Black Ethnic Minority parents mental health focuses on early intervention, perinatal mental health awareness and social isolation.