The Community
Mentor mums, expert sessions and training, shared resources and events, for mothers who support one another.
How to join
Mama's Escape
There's a place for you here.
Our community for Black mothers ready to stop doing it all alone, with a podcast and a newsletter that keep you close.
For Black mothers in the UK, the gap is not only loneliness. We are around three times more likely to die in and around pregnancy than white women, and too often our concerns go unheard. We were also raised, in our own cultures, not to talk about the struggle. Mama's Escape exists to change both.
On the Mama's Escape Podcast the masks come off: real mothers talking about loss, mum guilt and the pressures we carry.
What Mama's Escape is
Three parts, one village.
Mama's Escape is more than the community. It is the community, the podcast and the newsletter, so there is a way in wherever you are on the journey.
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Why we exist
To be understood without having to explain.
3× more likely to die in and around pregnancy · Source: MBRRACE-UK
Here is what's inside.
The community focuses on four core areas.
Mentor Mums
Paired with a mum who has walked the path before you: honest guidance, regular check-ins and real friendship, from lived experience, not just training.
Expert Series and Training
Guest experts on health, wellbeing, finance and parenting, live Q&As, and training that builds confidence, practical life skills and a way back into work.
Resource Sharing
Accurate, reliable information and the right contacts, gathered and made sense of, so the systems around you are easier to face.
Community Events
Regular gatherings, family-friendly activities and celebrations that bring mums together to connect and belong.
Inside the community
A mother deserves to be looked after too.
Before we were mothers, we were women full of ideas, dreams, and plans. Then motherhood arrived, often far from home, far from the village that would have held us. Everyone gathered round the baby. Few asked how we were.
We know, because it is our story too. A baby is born, but a mother is born too. She needs care too.
Say it out loud. You are allowed.
What to expect
Not Mum. Not wife. You.
Here is what stepping in feels like.
Women who have lived what you are living.
Honest conversation, and mentor mums a few steps ahead.
Sessions and resources you can actually use, and a circle that will know you by your name.
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Photographs are illustrative. Member voices are shared only with their consent.
How to join
You do not need to have it all together first. You just need to come.
The short joining form is being set up. When it opens, joining takes a couple of minutes.
What we ask
- Your name, and what we can call you
- Where you are right now: expecting, newborn, under five, or other
- Your birthday, so we can remember it
- One line on what brought you here today
Get the newsletter and we will tell you the moment the form opens.
Questions? Glad you asked.
Who is the Mama's Escape Community for?
Black mothers in the UK, particularly of African and Afro-Caribbean heritage, who are ready to stop doing it all alone. Expecting, newly a mum, raising under-fives, or somewhere else on the road: there is a place for you here.
What happens after I join?
You fill in the short form and we welcome you in. You do not need to have it all together first. The Welcome Book and the real depth of the community wait for you inside.
Is what I share private?
Yes. What is shared here stays here, and no mother becomes anyone's story. We keep the space protected, which is why you come in through a simple form.
I'm not ready to join. Can I still stay close?
Of course. Listen to the podcast, get the newsletter, or reach out to Work With Bokun for a closer conversation.
How is this different from Work With Bokun?
Mama's Escape is the community: a room of women, free to every mum. Work With Bokun is a closer path for a mother who wants personalised, one-to-one support.
Not ready to join yet?
This is the place we wished we had. Come in, Mama.
Or stay close: listen to the podcast (opens Spotify), get the newsletter, or reach out to Work With Bokun for a closer conversation.
You don't have to do it all alone.