Baby Week
2023- 2024
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## Baby Week Accounts
**April 2023 - March 2024 INCOME**
|**Baby Week April 2023 - March 2024**|**Baby Week April 2023 - March 2024**|||
|---|---|---|---|
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||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**
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|---|---|---|---|
|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|
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||TotalExpenditure||**£6612.97**|
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||**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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## 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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Care and Repair
Department for Work and Pensions
Leeds Dads
Matemty Voices Partnership
St Vincenfs Centre
Women's Therapy
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What worked well?
37 responses
Good turn out and organisation
Event Organiser Feedback
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Parents accessing up to date information on services. Craft keepsake for families to take home.
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New parents. signposting
The opportunity for parents to learn more about what is on offer at the family hubs and the community.
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The environment and the atmosphere
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Event Organiser Feedback
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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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Event Organiser Feedback
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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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