BABY BASICS NORTHAMPTON

We work with midwives, health visitors and other professionals to provide much needed items and support to vulnerable mums in Northants. Our starter packs are full of essential items for mum and baby.

Core costs

To pay for the service of a Company / Individual with access to their own vehicle, to complete delivery and collection tasks of starter packs for Baby Basics across the county

Drop off point for donations

We would like to buy essential items for each of our support packs, such as toiletries and mattresses, promoting a safer start to life and providing every baby with a safe place to sleep.

Grant to Baby Basics Northampton

Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs

Core costs.

We will provide Moses basket starter packs for vulnerable and disadvantaged mums and newborns.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

This funding will help support more new parents who are facing hardship and challenges, by providing them with a 'starter park' to support them and their new baby. The group will move into a new and more suitable premises that will enable them to ....more

This funding will help support more new parents who are facing hardship and challenges, by providing them with a 'starter park' to support them and their new baby. The group will move into a new and more suitable premises that will enable them to increase the number of new parents they are able to support, and to make a contribution to the salary of their operations lead to support the growth in provision.

Baby Basics, Northampton, works with mothers and their children, which means our project primarily supports women and girls. Our baskets are a gift that shows value and care for the mother, whoever they are and whatever situations they are facing. ....more

Baby Basics, Northampton, works with mothers and their children, which means our project primarily supports women and girls. Our baskets are a gift that shows value and care for the mother, whoever they are and whatever situations they are facing. By giving their child a safe place to sleep and a positive start to life, we are supporting their mothers mental health and wellbeing, which further positively impacts the child. We seek to provide these women with hope for life with their new. Our baskets promote self-esteem as well as giving a mother all that she needs to support her child in the first 3 months of its life. In some instances, our baskets enable babies to stay with their mothers, where otherwise this may not have been possible, and / or enable the mother to remain in a safe environment, rather than return to a place of abuse. The baskets include items that support cleanliness and hygiene, physical safety, warmth and comfort. Items are provided for the mother as well as the child. Working with other agencies, we hope to link mothers to wider networks of support for themselves and their babies. These include health visitors who will continue to care for them, where required, as well as the Fire Service who will carry out Fire Safety Checks in their homes. As well as the impact upon the immediate beneficiary, the mother, there is the impact on their child and family and also the wider public who are involved in the project. We have recruited a number of female volunteers and have built a community around the project who give their skills, time, items and finances to Baby Basics. We believe that this sense of community has a positive influence on their mental health and wellbeing too.

We will use the money to purchase Moses baskets, mattresses, bedding and essential items that mums and babies need.

This funding will be used to contribute towards current staffing costs at the facility. The project aims to support vulnerable new mothers and improve health and wellbeing.