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Baby Week 2023- 2024 Highlights A LEEDS

Baby Week Accounts

April 2023 - March 2024 INCOME

Baby Week April 2023 - March 2024	Baby Week April 2023 - March 2024
	Starting Balance		£5837.2
			Income
11/04/2023	NHS Wyorks		1,200
28/07/2023	Leeds Community Foundation		2,500
17/08/2023	Action for Children		850
10/10/2023	Calderdale		850
15/11/2023	Leeds Gymanastic		400
24/11/2023	Coventry		850
12/12/2023	Nottingham		850
19/12/2023	RCBC		850
	SUB TOTAL		8,350
		plus balance	£14187.2

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Baby Week Accounts

April 2023 - March 2024 EXPENDITURE

			Expenditure
03/04/2023	AwarenessDays		150
03/04/2023	Adminsupport - HD		672
14/08/2023	MantraMedia- Website		648
26/09/2023	Leeds City Council – Design Work		790.56
07/11/2023	Comms Support- BC		294
07/11/2023	LP001 Finance support		126
07/11/2023	QRCode		38.42
23/11/2023	Fiona- Photographer		100
23/11/2023	SSBWOrders &Merch		803.76
23/11/2023	PlayExploreArt		150
23/11/2023	ChristineMaine (photography)		300
23/11/2023	LP002 Finance support		443.53
23/11/2023	LD Wilton –Children'sEntertainer		150
19/12/2023	Comms Support- BC		364
19/12/2023	Hazel Hunter-First Aid		90
19/12/2023	CW LS6LD		300
19/12/2023	Enterprise		30.7
07/02/2024	Adventure Farm		150
07/02/2024	Agency for Good–WebsiteDesign		750
07/02/2024	PlayExplore Art		150
04/03/2024	LP 003 Finance support		112
	TotalExpenditure		£6612.97
	End of March 2024	New Balance	£7,574.23

2023 – 2024 STAFF & VOLUNTEERS:

Baby Week Staff

Organised by Trustee Sadiya Salim – Voluntarily Overseen by Lucy Potter Freelance Officers: April 2023 (1), November 2023 – March 2024 (2) Number of Trustees – 4 remaining Volunteers – 8-10 Volunteers (Ad-hoc to support Baby Week in different cities) MEETINGS: 4 national stakeholder meetings inviting all trustees

• Baby Week is inspired and adapted from Semana do Bebe in Brazil (2010 UNICEF) by Lucy Potter during her fellowship.

• Decentralised approach with grassroots organisations and a week to amplify priorities and services.

Background to Baby Week

• 2015 - Pitched idea to Head of Services in Leeds, they loved it! The idea was to use it as a platform to promote The Best Start Plan and promote the 1001 critical days and really engage with parents / carers and celebrate services!

• 2016 - Baby Week Leeds launched in the UK in 2016 by

• 2018 - Baby Week UK became a Registered Charity (CIO -1178324)

• 2019 - we were nominated and came in second place as charity of the year by The British Journal of Midwifery Practice Awards (BJM)

• Since 2016, hundreds of citywide events have been held with thousands of attendees including parents, expectant parents, practitioners and professionals , and of course babies!

• In 2023, Princess Catherine visited Leeds to launch her 'Shaping Us' campaign and met with our operational lead. The campaign all around raising awareness of the importance of early childhood was by the Royal Foundation's Centre for Early Childhood and featured Baby Week and Child Friendly Leeds as good practice

BABY WEEK IS A REGISTERED ORGANISATION WITH FOUR KEY AIMS

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Increasing awareness of, and access to, supportive services including early start centres and antenatal education, for parents, parents-tobe and wider family members.

Celebrating success and good practice, in relation to supporting all children to have the best start in life.

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Baby Week National Partners

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Culture & Identity

Key event partners included John Lewis, The Tetley, Thackray Museum, Leeds Libraries, Children Centres (Little Owls)

Over 4500 attendees over the week. Over 155 events

A trip to Baby Involving new Week Cheshire & groups refugees Merseyside and Leeds Gate

• As part of the theme of the week, ‘identity and culture’, we hosted a Q&A panel with four parents from different backgrounds (including heritage from Afghanistan, Chile, Hong Kong, France and mixed African heritage) who had different experiences of raising children in Leeds. We worked with the Leeds City Council

Global Parent Panel

• Resettlement team and thanks to Leeds Dads to put on such an informative

• session.

• The panel highlighted the positives of the provision here in Leeds with the parents describing their experiences accessing support networks, developing relationships with healthcare professionals and the continuity of care.

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Healthcare stalls Support for you Opportunities for 0-5s Also promoting their services were a number of stalls who provided support for new or expectant families: It was a pleasure to host 26 different stalls across two floors of The Tetley. This included 8 healthcare-related stalls: There were also plenty of stalls with offers for the whole family. induding youngsters= Care and Repair Department for Work and Pensions Leeds Dads Matemty Voices Partnership St Vincenfs Centre Women's Therapy Positive Birth Leeds Pregnancy in Mind (NSPCQ LOOK Say. Sin& Play Book Trust Children's Centre Early Start Debutots John Lewis Leeds Libraries Little Movers Moo Music I Calf Shed Water Babies 0-19 Nursing • BaBi Baby Bubble Children's Speech and Language Therapists Health Equty Midwives Infant Feeding Team Infant Mentsl Heatth Speak with a Midwife

What worked well? 37 responses Good turn out and organisation Event Organiser Feedback Alot Parents accessing up to date information on services. Craft keepsake for families to take home. Baby Week Feedback engaging activities for families lo enjoy New parents. signposting The opportunity for parents to learn more about what is on offer at the family hubs and the community. Offering items (Baby sensory bags) all week to ensure everyone who attended Ihe CC throughout the week had access if they wanted. The environment and the atmosphere We were in a good location for foot fall, well organised event, great lunch. and we enjoyed taking part in the

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• More opportunities like this for families but also for teams to engage with each other. Makes signposting services so much more useful.

• More SEND-tailored support

• More events like these but in a variety of locations. Also networking events as well although it was fabulous seeing families on the day I found value in also linking up with organisations as well.

• The information about what's on shared more in the community and local to them who needed it

• More drop-in sessions and family info days like this.

• Health Visitors back in each GP practises and baby weighing with support from Health workers / visitors so parents can speak to health visitor any day of the working week in person not on hold on help line with screaming babies toddlers. So parents don't have to wait for GP appointment. Rebuild HV support and build trusting relationships.

• More opportunities for parents to access resources and being aware of the services available

• More support aimed at fathers

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• Great event, spoke to lots of families and children. Fantastic to engage with so many other stakeholders too! Thank you so much for inviting us!

• Was a fantastic event. Well organised and with more families than I expected. I am already getting feedback from the leaflets I handed out on the day which is fantastic news.

• I think some of the services that were present can feel difficult for families to walk up to for fear of being judged - having a table with leaflets as they walk out would help with this as would a pack for them to take away after the event so that they can look at the info without feeling judged.

• Fantastic event, loved it not just for engaging with parents/babies/carers but also for finding out about what else is on offer locally

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