Gathered
Conversation, Connection & Community for South East London Mums
What is Gathered?
Overwhelmed by motherhood, or maybe underwhelmed by it? Fascinated by it, or furious about it? Whatever your experience, come and share your thoughts and feelings about motherhood, mothering, and the huge identity shift that comes with becoming a mum, with us at Gathered.
Gathered is a weekly conversation circle, and wider membership community, for mums who want to talk honestly and authentically about the realities of modern motherhood. From the mental load to matrescence, we discuss the cultural, political, societal, emotional, downright ‘brutiful’ (brutal and beautiful) experience of becoming a mother.
You’ll find support on the tough days, share the wins on the good ones, and find a space where both the odd tear and a good laugh are both always welcome. And, as you’d expect from any good mum group, Gathered is also a place you can offload about the eye-burning sleep deprivation, or the annoying unsolicited parenting advice, share tried and trusted recommendations, and swap low-brow Netflix favourites, too.
Our weekly conversation circles (primarily designed for mums of under 1s), and welcoming wider community to belong to, can be found in West Norwood, Peckham & East Dulwich.
To come along, book a one off taster session, or for the best experience of the community, choose the block of 4 to try your first month half price (£24). Either way, we’d love to meet you!
Who is Gathered for?
There’s no single one type of Gathered mum, and we certainly don’t all share the same parenting style, bedtime routines, feeding choices or family setups. Instead, we’re united by our desire to discuss our experiences of motherhood (and everything else life has to throw at us in this phase) more authentically, without judgement, competition or comparison, whatever those experiences might be.
Whether you’re finding all the emotions of motherhood huge and overwhelming, and need a space to process and regulate; you’re finding life repetitive and monotonous and need some great grown-up company and conversation; or you are looking for somewhere you can really give some thought and consideration to how you want to parent, Gathered is a space for all of these conversations and more.
If you’re a South East London mum of a baby under 1 (if they’re older, or you’re a Dad, check our FAQs for our follow-on groups), then we would love to meet you at Gathered.
However you’re finding this phase of motherhood, we would love to meet you. Come just as you are and tell us how you are.
To come along, book a one off taster session, or for the best experience of the community, choose the block of 4 to try your first month half price (£24). Either way, we’d love to meet you!
A few practicalities…
Your £48pm (or £38pm if you use our no questions-asked subsidised rate) membership includes:
🗓 A weekly local Gathering in West Norwood, Peckham or East Dulwich: 90 minutes each week that’s just for you (and your baby).
🎧 A weekly podcast from our facilitators and members, introducing the topic we’ll be exploring together.
💛 Access to our private community app, packed with resources and recommendations.
📚 An invitation to join our Book Club and social events.
📱 An optional, but often very helpful, community WhatsApp group.
🔁 Plenty of flexibility: cancel any time with one week’s notice, or switch to online-only if you want to stay connected without Gathering.
👶 As your baby grows, move on to our mum & toddler sessions or monthly evening membership.
👨 Invite your partner, or a local dad in your life, to our monthly evening Dads’ group.
And finally, a welcome from our members…
This gorgeous video was made by one of our Dad members, featuring some of our founder mums, and in their own words, and ours, really captures what Gathered is all about.
Our venues look a little different now, and these babies have grown and started school, but the topics we discuss, and the feeling of connection, validation and belonging are still the same.
As very Megan, one of our founder members puts it, “Gathered is one of the only times in my week that someone would stop and say ‘how are you? And so it’s one of the only times that I would stop and think…. how am I actually?”
Or as Teurai says, '“I felt like every thought, feeling I had around being a mum, whether it was a positive thought or a negative thought, or whatever, everything felt validated, like ‘someone else gets it’, it’s not just me”.
Or simply as Kendal puts it, ‘I come to Gathered to remember that I exist. To be my own person and an individual that also has a baby.”
If you might like to hang out with these mums (well, not these exact ones any more, but excellent ones a lot like them), to share your experiences and hear about theirs, to remember that you exist, not just as someone’s mum, then there’s a spot for you at Gathered.
Come find your people
Join us to try a one-off taster, or for the best experience, your first month for just £24, which includes 4 Gatherings, plus full access to our community. Either way, we would love to meet you!