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The notes form part of these financial statements
The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 29 February 2024
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Exmouth Bosom Buddies Community Interest Company is a breastfeeding support service, supporting families in the community with their breastfeeding journeys. We have benefitted the community in the following ways: - We have offered a weekly, donation based, breastfeeding peer support group that local breast-feeding families have been able to attend. We provide a comfortable and safe space where families could meet other parents, network, and gain important emotional and practical sup-port from each other and from our trained volunteer peer supporters. We have supported families with a wide range of breastfeeding issues, signposted them to other organisations for further support and information, emotionally supported women through difficult transitions (e.g. breastfeeding and returning to work, or stopping breastfeeding) and mentored new vol-unteers in providing good quality peer support. - From March 2023 – Feb 2024, we held 49 weekly sessions in which we saw 378 mothers and 409 babies/children attendees. Children’s ages during this time ranged from 2 days to 3 years old. These sessions were run by a breastfeeding peer support lead along with 1-3 volunteers each week and supported a wide range of breastfeeding issues. - We have provided a free lending library of specialist breastfeeding and early years literature for families which was popular and provided reassurance and increased awareness of the breastfeeding journey. The attendees used the library to borrow books most weeks, and the li-brary was used for reference by parents and volunteers during the weekly sessions. - Our trained breastfeeding support volunteers, who help run the weekly support sessions, have amassed a total of 297 hours over the year of voluntary support, as well as attending ongoing training including first aid and safeguarding and supervision sessions. - We secured funding this year which has enabled us to plan our next training course for another group of local women to become breastfeeding peer support volunteers later in Spring/Summer 2024. This funding has also allowed us to purchase medical grade baby weigh-ing scales so that local women have regular access to a calibrated accurate device to monitor their baby’s weight. - All of our volunteers are local women are able to use their skills to support others in their community and increase their own confidence and self-esteem. - We provided a breast pump hire service for the local community for those that needed them, providing a cost-effective and more ecologically friendly way to access a good quality electric breast pump, rather than purchasing one. This is also a way for people to ‘try before they buy’ so if someone requires a breast pump for a longer term then they can see if it suits before in-vesting in one. - We have developed our branding and expanded our social media presence, using multiple platforms to allow us to share up-to-date, useful and educational information with families, advertise the work we do, the services we offer and promote the group and all it offers for the community. We have also launched a private social media group for parents to join to allow them to connect with and support each other outside of group times. - We have provided private, and donation based 1-2-1 online/telephone consultations for moth-ers with breastfeeding issues to provide timely and focussed breastfeeding support. - This year we have strengthened important local connections with healthcare community staff and developed our links with other organisations in the local community, including the com-munity midwives, health visiting teams, town council officers and councillors, the East Devon Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise network and other Charities and CIC’s.
The company’s stakeholders and the women and children of East Devon, in particular Exmouth. The directors live in Exmouth, have worked in this area for many years and have developed the business model based on their professional and personal experiences while talking to local women about what they need. We encourage feedback, suggestions, and ideas from all the families that attend our groups and have adjusted the group in response to some of this feedback. For example, we received feedback that the timing of the group could be improved so we extended the session from 1.5 hours to 2 hours long to allow extra time to explore problems and issues thoroughly ad for mothers to connect and develop their own support networks. We also received some feedback that mothers were finding it difficult to access high quality and accurate baby scales to weigh their baby on. After discussion with the NHS about what was best to use, we secured funding to purchase a set that the local community can access during our group and are working with another local baby group so they can use the scales and be available to all mothers, not just those that are breastfeeding.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
3 December 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jodie Wilkerson
Status: Director