Midwifery Must Matter!

Honouring our past to shape our future

ARM’s 50th anniversary conference

At a time when UK maternity services face ongoing pressures, including midwifery workforce shortages, stress on services, and concerns about safe, woman-centred care, ARM’s 50th anniversary conference brings midwives and mothers together to celebrate our values and display our commitment to meaningful change.
Our conference will give you a fantastic opportunity to make connections with other like-minded people, take inspiration from ARM’s past and reflect on ideas to address the current threats to midwifery care and improve families’ experiences of birth. You will explore how we can better support women to achieve the birth they want including the importance of physiological birth to achieve safer outcomes. Surrounded by thoughtful and supportive colleagues, we expect you to come away with a more hopeful vision for the future, feeling more confident and positive about how you can make a difference, both individually and collectively – because Midwifery Must Matter! Now more than ever.

Our Speakers

Our day will begin with an introduction from founding member Marianne Scruggs. Then Mavis Kirkham and Nicky Leap will take us back to the early days of ARM. Leah Hazard asks what radical activism for troubling times looks like. Amifa Kebe-Kamara brings a mother’s perspective. Prof Soo Downe examines how we got here through evidence and data. Lola Ornato joins the lineup with her session ‘Do you see me?’ Challenging antiracism in midwifery. Melanie Jackson makes her UK conference debut. Kemi Johnson reminds us just how much you can make a difference. And in our Stronger Together panel discussion, we’ll be joined by organisations we’ve been working alongside, AIMS, Birthrights, Fund Future Midwives, and All4Maternity’s Anna Byrom, to explore how we move forward in collaboration.

Poet Amy Williams will be gathering your reflections on being a midwife throughout the day, weaving them into a live poem shared at the conference. Elisabeth Ubbe presents a photography exhibition.

Early Bird Tickets available until 10th April

Option to pay in installments
Lunch (vegetarian with vegan options) and refreshments are included, and you can collect your CPD hours by attending. Family-friendly room with live video available.

ARM Members:
Student £45/65 (Student ID required on entry)
Concessionary £55/90
Midwife £110/135

Non Members:
Student £80/85 (Student ID required on entry)
Concessionary £100/110
Midwife £150/175