Best Start Volunteer

Our trained Best Start volunteers really do play a vital role in the work of our Best Start team and enable us to reach and offer support to many families in Newcastle.  Many have used our services previously and found the support invaluable and so they have wanted to offer support to other women too.

Our Best Start Volunteers are parents who have breastfed (or are breastfeeding) and who have a positive attitude towards breastfeeding.  They promote breastfeeding in a friendly and sensitive manner and support our Best Start team to provide services to breastfeeding women and their families. This includes one to one support and attending our breastfeeding social groups.

Best Start volunteers also promote good attitudes to pregnancy and parenting in a friendly and sensitive manner.  They volunteer alongside the Best Start team and health professionals and the role includes helping to create a welcoming and friendly environment in different settings and welcome new and existing mothers and their families.

Volunteer Training

Our Best Start team offer a range of volunteering opportunities for people living in Newcastle. Volunteers benefit from the following free training:

Pregnancy Support Training:
This course is for anyone who would like to volunteer to support families in Newcastle during their pregnancy. You will learn about how to support mothers and their families including sessions on building strong parent baby relationships, birth physiology, compassion and communication, healthy pregnancy, preparing for baby and much more.

Breastfeeding Support Training:
This course is for women with an experience of Breastfeeding who would like to offer peer to peer support to other breastfeeding women in their community. This course covers training on peer to peer support, the values of breastfeeding and the physiology of making breast milk, responsive feeding, common infant feeding problems, building loving relationships and a whole lot more.

Volunteering is really rewarding and it’s great for the soul but it also has lots of other benefits. You will gain and develop new skills and experiences, receive necessary training and regular support, have regular supervision with the Volunteer Coordinator and receive a reimbursement of expenses.

For more information please contact Sarah on 07826531575, by completing the form below or via the Breastfeeding Mams Newcastle Facebook page