Funding needed for Women's Health Hub in Hartlepool to continue services
The Women's Health Hub in Hartlepool has free and peer-led groups
Last updated 19th Nov 2025
We're hearing a community space that supports over 150 women a month in Hartlepool is in need of funding to continue being a vital part of the town.
The Women's Health Hub has groups covering various topics like endometriosis and menopause - they're all free and peer-led.
Sammi Reay is from there and she said: "We have over 150 women who come to us every month now, so it's been going amazing in all of the different groups that we have. We're sort of expanding to put new groups on and we're doing a lot at the moment around women's health to do with menopause.
"We're trying to reach out to the BME community because we've quite often found that a lot of them don't reach out for support and whether it's to do with their culture, because quite a lot of these topics you don't speak about in those cultures.
"We're really proud of where we've got to and we just hope it can keep continuing and obviously without that funding it's just not possible, especially when you want all of your services to be free to access to people because the cost of living is just ridiculous at the moment and things like this should be free.
"We've got recovery from addiction groups and just being around other people who are in that situation, you don't feel so alone, you don't feel like I'm the worst person in the world for going through this because there's other people there who are such a supportive community.
"At the minute we're working on quite a lot of asylum seekers and sort of people who've come over to this country and are really struggling, especially with health and they don't typically talk around these subjects, they're very sort of taboo subjects."