Mind the Gap Podcast where host Malone Mukwende sits down with Clo and Tinuke from FiveXMore to discuss the organisation they have built.
Five X more is an organisation committed to highlighting and changing Black maternal health outcomes in the UK. Five X More takes a four pronged approach - Lobbying the government, training health professions and students, empowering women and conducting research and reports.
Founders Atinuke (Tinuke) and Clotilde (Clo) are very passionate about women's health.
Tinuke is a mother and founder of Learning with Ez - specialising in diverse educational resources for children as well as Mums & Tea - a social platform aimed at connecting Black mums together.
Clo is the founder of Prosperitys - a maternal well-being social enterprise which supports Black Ethnic Minority parents. Prosperitys focuses on early intervention, perinatal mental health awareness and social isolation. She is also the MVP chair at St Thomas hospital and an Expert by Experience for NHSE/I
In 2020 Five x More launched the petition “Improve Maternal Mortality Rates and Health Care for Black Women in the U.K.” which gained over 187,000 signatures, leading Black maternal health to be discussed in parliament for the first time in its history.
They have been named in HSJ’s ‘50 most influential people in health’ 2022 list as well as
‘Black History Makers’ by Good morning Britain, ‘Force for Change’ by British Vogue, "Woman changing the World" by the Evening Standard and ‘Future Shaper’s’ by Marie Clair. Five X More has been featured in several newspapers and media outlets speaking on Black maternal health as a means of keeping it high on the agenda, to continue to make positive changes.
