News & Social
Catch up on the latest developments across the 70/30 Campaign.
Twickenham Ambassador, Daphne Cotton, sheds light on breastfeeding crisis in UK and calls for action
The UK is the worst country in the world for breastfeeding. This appears to be because we are ignorant about its importance. A recent UK survey revealed mothers gave lack of support, public attitudes and embarrassment as major factors in them giving up breastfeeding...
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Medway Maritime Hospital initiates new project to promote safer births
Staff at Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent recently initiated a new project encouraging women to stop pushing during childbirth. The project comes after The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Royal College of Midwives highlighted a sharp...
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Scotland Announces Nationwide Roll-out of Finnish-inspired Baby Boxes from August
The Scottish Government has announced that the Finnish-inspired baby box scheme, which was successfully rolled out in Orkney and Clackmannanshire earlier this year, will be rolled out nationwide as of August. New mothers whose babies are born on or after 15 August...
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The 70/30 Campaign Joins Thousands For This Year’s Charity Walk for Peace
70/30 Group Coordinators Sam Lawes (Battersea) and Michael Khajeh-Noori (Sussex) joined hundreds of others as they walked the 5k to celebrate this year's Charity Walk of Peace. We are so very proud of our wonderful team who walked the Charity Walk for Peace this...
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Child Abuse Survivor, Cassie Pullman Shares her Story with the BBC
The lovely Cassie Pullman has teamed up with the BBC to share her story of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (#PTSD) in an effort to raise awareness this #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek We were lucky enough to have Cassie come onto one our monthly national 70/30 ambassador...
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Sussex Ambassador, Michael Khajeh-Noori Celebrates Fruitful Meeting With Local MP, Henry Smith Who Endorses 70/30
On Friday 28th April, 70/30 Sussex Ambassador, Michael Khajeh-Noori met with local MP for Crawley, Henry Smith. Michael took the opportunity to share with Henry details of the 70/30 Campaign and the activity he is undertaking currently on a local level for Sussex....
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Tooting Ambassador, Antonella Sansone Enjoys Meeting with Local Councillor, Antonia Dunn to Talk 70/30
Tooting ambassador, Antonella Sansone enjoyed a great meeting in a local coffee shop with local Councillor, Antonia Dunn on Friday morning. Antonia expressed her interest in supporting the 70/30 Grassroots Campaign by any means possible. She was open and receptive and...
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70/30 Group Launches in Croydon
Croydon Group Coordinators, Sara Martínez and Anthoulla Koutsoudi from WAVE Trust held their first meeting for the launch of a local group in the area. The event took place on Wednesday 12th April at WAVE's Croydon-based office. The team celebrated a great turnout...
read moreFounder of Forging Families & 70/30 Sheffield Ambassador, Rachel Gardner Shares Beautiful Video to Inspire Others
Sheffield Charity, Forging Families Becomes a 70/30 Alliance Partner
We could not be more thrilled to announce that Forging Families has become an official 70/30 Alliance Partner. Sheffield-based Forging Families is a charity which promotes 'Happy Families, Happy Babies' through supporting, informing and acting as a voice for Sheffield...
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Chris Philp MP for South Croydon Becomes Our 20th MP to Endorse The 70/30 Campaign
Following a meeting with WAVE's very own Anthoulla Koutsoudi, South Croydon MP, Chris Philp has become the 20th MP to officially endorse the 70/30 Campaign. We are, of course, absolutely delighted to have his support. Chris now joins fellow Croydon MP, Steve Reed in...
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70/30 Ambassador for Suffolk, Carolyn Meets Local MP James Cartlidge to Talk 70/30
Suffolk ambassador, Carolyn Silberfeld met with local MP, James Cartlidge on Friday 31 March 2017. The meeting was a great success. James was extremely interested in the campaign and the work of WAVE Trust and even suggested he take a photo of Carolyn and him with...
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We love the new campaign by Mother London to tackle Stigma around breastfeeding!
We love what mother london have done with a gigantic breast in Shoreditch! London-based creative agency, mother london has topped an ordinary, brick building with a humongous, inflated breast in celebration of mother’s day, and in hopes of raising awareness around...
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We’re Launching a Local 70/30 Group in Croydon!
It's official and very, very exciting...we're setting up a 70/30 group in Croydon this April and we want you! Let's make Croydon the best place to live for young families! We want the people of Croydon to join the fight to have a safer, happier place for our children...
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MP for Birmingham, Selly Oak Shares his Support for 70/30
Steve McCabe MP for Birmingham, Selly Oaks has today shown his support for the 70/30 Campaign. Steve joins another 18 MPs also endorsing 70/30 and becomes the first MP in the Birmingham area to do so. You can see the full list on the website here. To find out more...
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Sarah Olney MP for Richmond Park Endorses the 70/30 Campaign
On Saturday 25th March 70/30 Ambassador for Richmond, Daphne Cotton met local MP, Sarah Olney to discuss 70/30. Daphne (left), along with her friend and Kingston Hospital Midwife, Chris Taylor (right) went along to speak with Sarah (centre) about the work they are...
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Stevenage ambassador, Sarah Kingham launches #ThursdayThoughts
70/30 Ambassador for Stevenage and Founder of Social Enterprise, Sarah Kingham has launched her newest social media campaign, #ThursdayThoughts. Readit2 is a tried and tested one-to-one reading programme that improves the reading of two to five year-olds, enabling all...
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WAVE Trust’s CEO George Hosking Presents on How the Early Years Can Shape Human Relationships at SCCR Conference in Glasgow
Founder and CEO of the WAVE Trust charity, George Hosking recently presented at the Scottish Conflict Resolution Centre‘s conference in Glasgow, Scotland. The national, annual conference which took place in February this year had as its main topic of...
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"Somebody is much more likely to need mental health services if they have experienced childhood adversity. The all-party group on the prevention of #ACEs has looked in detail at the evidence base on policies to prevent this adversity." @PaulWilliamsMP
https://t.co/mUwaHZd11E
Great to see @scottishprisons pursuing #traumainformed approaches for women's prisons, an approach that has secured excellent results elsewhere (see 2 examples below) @HumzaYousaf
https://t.co/ZdNJExK2mz
I know as soon as I Tweet this I will think of more resources! Hopefully, you will as well. Please add more resources for #Trauma #TraumaInformed
PLEASE, PLEASE, don't forget to build relationships with students this school year!
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Great to see how even years after the #ACEs #traumainformed movement took off in the US, it's still going strong (and stronger) today!
#ACEs are a major root cause of suicide, with ACE scores very strongly correlated to a person's likelihood of attempting suicide. #traumainformed approaches have also been shown to reduce suicide attempts in prisons and juvenile centres. We need to make the most of this knowledge
An #ACEs questionnaire has been sent to all MPs in Parliament, the first time this has ever happened. Please Tweet your MP to ask them to anonymously fill it in - thank you! https://t.co/F7QfE7HgK2
It would be nice to know that our #Croydon MPs will be responding to this survey ... https://t.co/UzOKJN07Q5
Relationships are at the heart of teaching. Here's an example of one exceptional headmaster in Newport who's taken that knowledge to heart #ThankATeacher #ACEs #traumainformed
https://t.co/mObPHX13qY
"I had a choice to make, blame Josh for “making” me feel this way... Or, taking responsibility for my own thoughts and feelings and try to approach the relationship in a different way." #ACEs #traumainformed
https://t.co/Lijn5br0BX
"In her statement, the Minister mentioned the public health approach. Does she agree that we need a lot more training for the #traumainformed intervention in education, in healthcare, in prisons, in the police and in youth services?" Absolutely @Wera_Hobhouse!
We are thrilled to have the launch of our service featured in @TheScotsman today, with comments from our project lead Aliy Brown. Read more about why #FASDHub is so necessary for families in Scotland: https://t.co/pavBltFIGw