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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James Hunt
Senior charity manager, CEO, fundraiser, charity trustee/chair and general volunteer
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Jan Grzebielucha
🚀 A highly experienced and creative Product manager with passion taking product from ideation to the launch. Technically competent and industry aware
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Daphne Cotton
Consultant Facilitator at Best Beginnings (charity)
Updates
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We were delighted to be featured in a recent episode of BBC Sounds: 'When It Hits the Fan: Can Keir kill spin?', in a discussion of building public trust and working with the government to influence change ✍️ Our app Baby Buddy was mentioned as a trusted communication tool by governments to reduce the rates of still births and neonatal death 👣 You can listen to the full episode here: https://ow.ly/JNFH50SFWNY
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This is your reminder to download our Baby Buddy app if you haven’t already! 📱 Our NHS-aligned, ad-free app offers hundreds of different articles and videos to support you during pregnancy and throughout your parenting journey 👶 https://lnkd.in/gsRbSNxZ #pregnancy #parenting #support #birthpartner #baby #babybuddy
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A huge congratulations to our Impact Lead, Mariana, for graduating with a Masters of Science in Women's Health 👏 We are so proud of your achievement and are excited for you to implement your new-found knowledge into our work at Best Beginnings to better support families! 🤰
Impact Lead at Best Beginnings • Public Health Researcher, Speaker and Advocate • MSc Women’s Health at UCL • Passionate about making change
🎓 Thrilled to share that I officially received my MSc in Women’s Health from UCL nine months ago, but had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate it at the Southbank Centre last week! ✨ I am incredibly grateful for the support of my amazing peers and family throughout this tough but rewarding experience. 💐 A special heartfelt thank you to my supervisor Suzy Buckley for her invaluable guidance on my dissertation, “First time solo mothers’ experiences of support: examining urban and rural differences in support use in the United Kingdom” 🚀 As I continue to work in the charity field with the wonderful Best Beginnings I am excited for all that is to come and for the opportunity to contribute to advancing women's health. #Graduation #UCL #WomensHealth #NextChapter
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Best Beginnings reposted this
Men’s health is rarely a topic of discussion. We know that men’s participation in health interventions, seeking care and speaking about their well being is lower than it should be. This reports outlines so many aspects of men’s health that we need to focus on. For gender inclusive healthcare to be accessible, we need to unpick how we can create equity and equality for men, from all backgrounds. I remember reading #invisiblewomen and feeling like the perspective in that book is imbalanced and the nuance was not captured well. This report feels like it proving a missing piece of the conversation. Looking forward to supporting this campaign with Best Beginnings and #babybuddy.
Today marks the launch of our new report, The Real Face of Men's Health, outlining the real picture of men's health and its impact on society. Here's what you need to know: - Men are dying too young from mostly preventable reasons - Where men live has an alarmingly significant impact on how long they live - Men's health impacts everyone, not just men. But there's hope. By improving men's health, we can have a profoundly positive impact on women, families, and society. Healthier men means a healthier world. We've outlined clear steps for positive change, calling on government to step up. Let's change the face of men's health, together. https://bit.ly/4d2T1PB
The Real Face of Men's Health report
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With the recent findings of The All-Party Parliamentary Group’s inquiry on Birth Trauma, we’d like to remind you of the resources within our Safer Beginnings Programme that we launched last year with the help of over 18 partner organisations 🤰 Our written and video resources are designed to provide specialist support to parents or expectant parents who have either experienced trauma, or are at greater risk of trauma or harm, to have positive experience during their pregnancy and beyond 👐 You can find the content integrated in the Baby Buddy app 📱 or on our YouTube channel – Best Beginnings 💻
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As #BabyCommunicationWeek comes to an end, we want to share a clip from one of our videos on the Baby Buddy app, where mum Shereece talks about how babies’ cries are their way of communicating what they need and want 👶 For more advice and support, download our Baby Buddy app! 📱 #Mother #Father #NewParent #Newborn #Baby #Cry #Communication
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It’s #BabyCommunicationWeek! 👶🗣️ Communicating with your baby is a way to improve bonding, and enables your baby to feel heard 💖 Babies are able to communicate what they want and need, long before they can talk, mainly through their cries. Some tips include: ✨Focus on connection rather than perfection with your baby ✨Remember YOU are everything your baby needs ✨Your newborn baby is your best guide! The Brazelton Centre is a national charity dedicated to supporting healthy parent-baby relationships though promoting an understanding of newborn babies’ communication. Visit their website for more tips surrounding baby communication - https://lnkd.in/gNZRPUFr #BabyCommunication #Newborn #Mother #Father #Parent #Communication #Bonding #Connection
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As part of our #NationalBreastfeedingCelebrationWeek activities, we want to spotlight a video discussing how to get support and build confidence when breast or chestfeeding 🤱 For more advice and support, download our Baby Buddy app 📱 #Breastfeeding #Chestfeeding #CelebrateBreastfeeding #Infantfeeding #Baby #Parent #Mother #Father #BabyBuddy #BestBeginnings
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It’s #NationalBreastfeedingCelebrationWeek! 🤱 We want to spotlight the various resources on breast and chestfeeding available on our Baby Buddy app and Best Beginnings YouTube channel, as well as share some of the benefits of breast or chestfeeding your child 👶 Each infant-feeding journey is different for each parent, but we are here to support you along the way 💜 #Breastfeeding #Chestfeeding #CelebrateBreastfeeding #Infantfeeding #Baby #Parent #Mother #Father
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