During this financial year, Mums and Toddlers Foundation have successfully operated as a vital lifeline for low-income, isolated, and asylum-seeking mothers and their young children across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Our core activity focused on alleviating child poverty and maternal isolation by sourcing and distributing essential items. In this financial year alone, we distributed over 5,000 essential items - including clothing, nappies, formula, toiletries, and high-cost equipment like prams and cots - ensuring newborns had a safe, healthy, and dignified start in life. With the support of grant funding, we expanded our physical infrastructure by acquiring a dedicated delivery vehicle and additional storage units. This allowed us to secure a formal partnership with the Cwtch Mawr multi-bank, enabling us to handle bulk supplies and scale up to support over 1,000 mothers in the region. Our activities benefited the community in several distinct ways: 1. Overcoming Extreme Isolation: Using our delivery van, we provided direct doorstep deliveries to highly isolated mothers with no transport links, or those physically unable to leave home due to post-natal medical recovery (such as C-sections), ensuring no family was left behind. 2. Systemic Support & Advocacy: By utilising bilingual staff and volunteers, we helped marginalised mothers overcome language and cultural barriers. We acted as a bridge to mainstream services, helping families register with GPs, secure housing support, and unlock statutory benefits like Healthy Start vouchers, lifting them out of "hidden poverty." 3. Community Connection & Wellbeing: We facilitated weekly early years play and peer-support sessions, regularly bringing together over 50 mothers and their children. These sessions created a safe, welcoming space that successfully reduced post-natal isolation, improved mental wellbeing, and helped mothers build lasting local support networks. Our profound impact and dedication to tackling inequality have been widely recognised this year through several major honors, including being named Winners of the 2026 Together WeCare Awards, receiving the High Sheriff of West Glamorgan Award in recognition of dedicated and valuable service to the community, winning the Equalities Champion Award, and being honored with the Nation of Sanctuary Award. Overall, the company's activities have directly reduced financial strain on vulnerable families, improved early years development for children, and fostered a stronger, more celebrated, and connected community across South West Wales.

1. Our Beneficiaries: Over 1000 registered mothers from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, including first-time mums, asylum seekers, and refugees living in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. 2. Our Volunteer Network: 20 dedicated volunteer mothers, many of whom have shared lived experience of migration, seeking asylum, or navigating motherhood without a family support network in Wales. 3. Local Health and Welfare Partners: The local Health Board, midwives, antenatal teams, and sexual health professionals who collaborate with us. 4. Community and Donation Partners: Organisations like Multibank Swansea and Amazon, who supply us with bulk donations of essential items. 5. Large-Scale Consultations: we hold in-person weekly consultation sessions attended by mothers from our community. These sessions provided a safe space for mums to share their anxieties, daily struggles, and barriers to support. 6. Direct Surveys: We collected and analysed detailed surveys from mothers to gather specific data on their mental health, postpartum needs, and practical challenges. 7. Ongoing Feedback Loops: We hold weekly informal feedback discussions during our regular play-groups and wellbeing sessions, allowing mothers and volunteers to continuously steer our day-to-day activities. 8. Partner Dialogue: We maintain constant communication with our visiting midwives and health professionals to identify where clinical services end and where community-based support needs to step in. We have taken direct, tangible action to reshape our services based on exactly what our stakeholders told us they needed: 1. You told us: The first 6 weeks postpartum are the most overwhelming and lonely, especially for BAME and asylum-seeking mums who have no family in Wales to help. a. Action taken: We designed the "Mums Supporting Mums" project to focus specifically on this critical six-week window. We are recruiting and training experienced volunteer mums to visit new mothers in their homes, providing direct emotional support, helping with light duties, and giving the mums vital respite to rest. 2. You told us: Financial hardship, the cost-of-living crisis, and having No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) make it incredibly hard to afford basic baby essentials like clothes, toiletries, and high-chair/cot items. a. Action taken: We rapidly expanded our storage capacity to a full container and established a dedicated Mother and Toddler Baby Bank. We also partnered with Multibank and Amazon to secure bulk goods and launched a Volunteer Transport Scheme to de-liver these emergency packs directly to the doorsteps of expectant and new mums who cannot travel. 3. You told us: Linguistic and cultural barriers, combined with a lack of childcare, make it terrifying or practically impossible to visit GP surgeries, clinics, or integrate into the community. a. Action taken: We brought health services to the mums. Midwives, sexual health, and antenatal teams now visit our weekly wellbeing sessions in a safe, familiar community setting, removing the fear and transport barriers. We have also introduced affordable childcare options during our sessions and launched self-development workshops to help mothers learn new skills and build long-term financial and social resilience.

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