Breastfeeding Network Southampton Volunteer

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The Breastfeeding Network Southampton offers infant feeding peer support to expectant, new and experienced families throughout postcodes SO14-SO19 including Princess Anne Hospital. We also administrate the Southampton Welcomes Breastfeeding Scheme.

We need the help of volunteers with a wide range of activities from providing knitted demonstration breasts, distributing flyers to businesses to join the Welcome Scheme to providing face to face peer support to families with infant feeding concerns.

At least once a year we offer a training course for those wishing to become breastfeeding peer supporter volunteers, the only entry requirements are some personal experience of lactating/breastfeeding, it does not matter recent your experience is & the commitment to volunteer for 1 year after you qualify.

 

About Breastfeeding Network Southampton

The Breastfeeding Network (BfN) is a charity organisation based in the United Kingdom (UK). We aim to be an independent source of support and information for breastfeeding parents, as well as health professionals and other organisations. Our aims are to: Inform, educate and support families in feeding and nurturing babies and young children; Enable communities to support breastfeeding through sharing information, training and volunteering; Contribute to evidence based policymaking for government, healthcare providers and educators; Promote the mental and physical wellbeing of mothers and babies through supporting breastfeeding We partner with organisations such as Home-Start HOST, NHS Best Start in Life, the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers, and Down Syndrome UK, and many of our local services are commissioned by local NHS trusts and councils. We do not accept funding from sources which have a commercial interest in infant feeding. This enables women to feel confident that any information and support being given by a BfN Registered Volunteer is not biased in any way. For example, we will not accept sponsorship (funding or gifts) from manufacturers or distributors of breastmilk substitutes, feeding bottles, teats or dummies. We also do not accept sponsorship from companies that profit from breastfeeding (success or failure), such as nipple creams, breast pumps, nursing bras, nipple shields, etc. or companies profiting from a particular parenting style. We work within the scope of the World Health Organisation / UNICEF Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and Subsequent relevant World Health Assembly Resolutions. The Breastfeeding Network is a registered Charity (SC027007) regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) The Breastfeeding Network is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Company No. 330639 Registered Office: Unit 49, Sir James Clark Building, Abbey Mill Business Centre, Paisley, PA1 1TJ The Breastfeeding Network is registered for VAT purposes with VAT registration number GB 157816187.

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