Storks deliver babies.
We help bring them home.
STORKS is a UK charity improving neonatal and paediatric care through specialist training, research and transport.
We train the teams who look after the sickest babies and children, fund ideas to make care better, and support their safe transfer to specialist centres, so every child gets the best possible start.
Education & Training
STAN - Stabilisation & Transfer of the Acutely Unwell Neonate
An intensive two-day course that fuses focussed teaching with hands-on workshops and immersive, high-fidelity simulations. Delegates rehearse the full referral-stabilisation-handover pathway.
STAN air
This two-day course drills into the physiological stresses of flight, civil aviation safety regulations and cabin-specific kit. Scenario-based sessions in aircraft mock-ups and inside a plane let delegates practise stabilising babies and children throughout the transfer episode.
Advanced Respiratory Management
A two-day course in modern respiratory support, from the delivery room to the intensive care unit. Delegates work hands-on with the latest ventilation and monitoring technologies, and with the human factors that decide how well they work.
Grants & Fellowships
Nest Egg
Seed grant providing initial funding for promising, innovative projects that could improve the care of neonates and children.
Goal: Kick-start groundbreaking ideas with potential for lasting change.
Peck & Patch
Small-scale grants for high-impact initiatives. These might fund quality improvement projects or new interventions that enhance patient care.
Goal: Support practical projects that make an immediate difference.
Wingspan Fellowship
A fellowship grant supporting healthcare professionals to pursue postgraduate degrees focused on neonatal or paediatric medicine.
Goal: Foster academic excellence and train the next generation of leaders.
Specialist Patient Transport
Team
Neonatal Senior Nurse with more than 25 years of experience in the NHS, Professional Nurse Advocate, Neonatal Voices Partnership Lead for the Central East Integrated Care Board, Editorial Board Member of the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) programme.
Neonatologist specialising in neonatal and paediatic road & flight transport, pioneer of the UK’s first neonatal transport training course (STAN), Chief Medical Officer of SkyCare Repatriation Ltd, BEng (Hons) in Computer Systems Engineering and PGDip in Ergonomics & Human Factors.
Consultant Neonatologist, London Neonatal Transfer Service (NTS), Founding Director of the MSc Advanced Neonatal Practice at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and lead of a multi-disciplinary research team.
Senior Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) and co-lead of the MSc Advanced Neonatal Practice at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) with more than 25 years of experience in clinical and educational.
Data scientist with several decades of experience in neonatal and paediatric research and quality improvement initiatives, MSc in Information Engineering and PhD in Measurement and Information in Medicine.
Founder & Managing Director of Mount13, former Bain & Company consultant and corporate strategy and transformation specialist with a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge.
Global pharmaceutical strategy and marketing executive with more than 20 years’ experience across 60 countries. Former Pfizer Senior Director specialising in infectious diseases, launch excellence and regional commercial development across Europe, Asia and the UK.
Strategic leader with extensive experience building cross-continental partnerships across the UK, China and Africa. Founder and CEO of London Medical Exchange, delivering medical education, conferences, technology solutions and consultancy for healthcare organisations. UK Director for Shanghai Vebery Biotechnology, supporting the growth of advanced medical technologies and devices.
Resident doctor in paediatrics with a focus on neonatal medicine and clinical experience spanning the UK, Russia and Australia. Ivan is equally at home in neonatal and paediatric research, across clinical and basic sciences, and in quality improvement and medical education. Running through all of it is a strong entrepreneurial streak and deep-rooted business acumen.
Get Involved
Donate
Make a one-off gift, set up a regular donation or direct your support to a specific project.
Fundraise
Rally your community and fundraise for STORKS! Whether you run a marathon, host a bake sale or start an online campaign, we have a toolkit to help you get started. Share your efforts on social media and tag us to spread the word.
Store
Support us by purchasing STORKS-branded merchandise. We plan to launch an online store where you can buy apparel, accessories and more – with all proceeds benefiting the charity’s work.
We'd love to hear from you. Email us at info@storks.org.uk. We are always open to enquiries, support and new partnerships.
Neonatal and paediatric training, research and transport.