Are you a new parent or expecting a baby in 2024? Make sure you download our free pregnancy and parenting app #BabyBuddy to receive daily information to support you during your pregnancy and beyond. What better way to start the year! Download the app here: bitly.com/BabyBuddy2 #BabyDue2024 #NewBaby #Pregnancy #FirstTimeParent #FirstTimeDad #NewMum #NewDad
About us
Best Beginnings is a national charity which embraces the power of evidence, collaboration, and innovation to give every child the best start in life and reduce inequalities in outcomes. Our aim is to improve the health, wellbeing, and life-chances of young children of all backgrounds, with a firm focus on tackling inequalities. Our work covers the crucial period from preconception to a child’s first birthday, where the evidence shows the foundations for a healthy and happy life are laid. By providing expert support and practical help, largely through our free parenting app, Baby Buddy, we give parents, co-parents and caregivers the knowledge and confidence to take good care of themselves and support them to build healthy, happy lives for their children.
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https://linktr.ee/BestBeginnings20
External link for Best Beginnings
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2006
- Specialties
- Pregnancy and parenting information, including specific information for fathers, Childcare information, Mental Health, and Campaigning
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London, GB
Employees at Best Beginnings
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Alison Baum OBE
Innovation & Impact Consultant for purpose driven organisations | Founder & President of Best Beginnings charity
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Daphne Cotton
Consultant Facilitator at Best Beginnings (charity)
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Dean Farmer
Charities Finance Director at Merlin Entertainments
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Jenny McLeish
Researcher/writer on maternity, inequalities and family policy
Updates
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At the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Annual Conference in November, Best Beginnings showcased Baby Buddy, our free, NHS-aligned pregnancy and parenting app. The poster submitted to the conference exhibition highlights our unwavering commitment to creating resources that represent and support parents and caregivers from all backgrounds, with a focus on the LGBTQ+ community. You can read more in our blog here: https://lnkd.in/ek6sxX8c
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📢 Calling all dads! There's only a few days left to share your health experiences during fatherhood in our survey with Movember 👨👧👦 You can complete it here: https://lnkd.in/enm4qtVE
Dads - your health matters! We are conducting a survey with Movember as part of their #RealFaceofMensHealth Campaign, to understand your physical and mental health needs throughout fatherhood 🧑🍼 Across all aspects of healthcare, the support for dads needs to improve. Sharing your experiences give us a louder voice when advocating for healthcare systems that meet the needs of all genders, and for more action around men’s health issues 📣 If you would like to share your physical or mental health experiences as a dad or expectant dad, we would love to hear from you! You can fill out the survey here: https://lnkd.in/enm4qtVE
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Baby Buddy has turned 10! 🎉 We are delighted to share that we have been supporting parents, caregivers and healthcare professionals across the world through our app, Baby Buddy ™, for an entire decade! 📱 Over the last 10 years, Baby Buddy has supported over 500,000 users, been embedded across 78 localities across the UK, adapted to integrate in 3 countries and has trained over 2,000 healthcare professionals as Baby Buddy Champions 👩⚕️ As we reflect upon the last decade, we hope you join us in celebrating. Your support has enabled us to be there for thousands of families over the last 10 years 💜
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Last week, the Best Beginnings Team came together at an Away Day, stepping away from our laptops and desks to connect as a team, celebrate our achievements and brainstorm new ideas and possibilities for the future 💭 It was a fantastic opportunity to reconnect, reflect and re-energise ahead of the new year! 🌟
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This Trustees Week, we would like to shine a spotlight on our amazing Board of Trustees and thank them for their time, dedication and commitment, always ensuring that Best Beginnings is there for every parent and every child 🙌 https://lnkd.in/gRCwmqJy Lorraine Barclay ACCA, Dhaval Ponda, Hilary Russell, Gideon Hurwitz, Kirstin Johnston, Birte Harlev-Lam OBE, Angela Horsley MBE
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The Children and Young People’s Health Policy Influencing Group’s (HPIG) latest report has been published, mapping out the way in which the government can put children at the heart of the NHS and improve child health outcomes. We are dedicated to reducing health inequalities within the early years through our free and ad-free NHS-aligned app, Baby Buddy, by ensuring parents and caregivers have access to trusted and reliable information. The app can be used as a digital child health record, by logging developments such as vaccinations, growth, and feeding from birth onwards.
Babies, children and young people make up around 25% of the population, yet they only account for 11% of NHS expenditure. Children’s physical and mental health outcomes in England are poor in relation to comparable countries, and there has been a shocking decline in the health of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children in recent years. When it comes to hospital waiting times, children’s waitlists are growing at double the rate of adults. We must have leadership from the very top that prioritises childhood. The Children and Young People’s Health Policy Influencing Group, chaired by the National Children’s Bureau and the Council for Disabled Children, publishes today its Roadmap on how the government can improve child health outcomes. Last week’s Budget made some steps in the right direction, but failed to implement the systemic change needed. Our Roadmap welcomes the government’s manifesto commitments on babies, children and young people’s health needs, and outlines the necessary steps to significantly improve child health outcomes. 🛣️ Read the full Roadmap here: https://lnkd.in/eg-47X6h
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In a recent article for Nesta, Louise Bazalgette highlighted key ways in which important work to support parents can be delivered at scale and grow impact. This thought-provoking piece led our COO, Nilushka Perera, to reflect on her own experience - leading a national charity with a digital health app, and her practice as a MHPSS/public health researcher. If we can expand the reach of parenting programmes successfully, such as our own programme Baby Buddy Local, we know that this can deliver real change and have significant impact on reducing inequalities. Read Nilushka's blog post here: https://lnkd.in/eBDWiK8T Full article here: https://lnkd.in/eAduieaM
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Operations & Impact Leader | Mental Health & Family Services Specialist | Charitable Sector Strategist
Great to be out and about promoting Baby Buddy at Perry Barr Family Hub Launch. We love our new tote bags ❤️ Leila Khatouri Ruth Edmondson - Freelance Stories Manager Best Beginnings #birmingham
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