TOSFoundation

Five years ago today, we received the phone call that no parent ever expects to receive. A phone call from Oliver’s nursery that changed our lives forever. Five years is such a difficult amount of time to comprehend because, in some ways, it feels like an entire lifetime has passed, yet there are moments when we can close our eyes and it feels like it happened yesterday. On 23 September 2021, what had started as a completely normal day became every parent's worst nightmare when we received a...

Today, we are incredibly proud, humbled and emotional to announce that we have reached a milestone that once seemed almost unimaginable. The Oliver Steeper Foundation has now provided 2,000 LifeVac anti-choking devices across the United Kingdom. When we started The Oliver Steeper Foundation, we were simply two grieving parents trying to find a way forward after our entire world had been torn apart. We never had a grand plan, we never imagined how far Oliver’s name would travel, and we...

After four years of unimaginable pain, perseverance, and emotional endurance, we, Lewis and Zoe Steeper, the parents of our beloved son, Oliver Keith Steeper, confirm that a final out-of-court settlement has now been reached in relation to Oliver’s death at Jellybeans Nursery, Ashford, Kent, in September 2021. The settlement includes an undisclosed six-figure sum and brings to a close what has been a deeply distressing and protracted legal process for myself and Zoe. While no amount of...