More meeting dates

The next meeting dates for coffee mornings/play sessions at the Salvation Army Hall will be:

Thursday 4 November

Thursday 2 December

Dates for the New Year will follow when I can bear to contemplate the end of another year! Hope to see you at a meeting soon.

Fundraising for room hire & new library books

OK, so we will have to pay for our coffee morning space in a couple of months so our group funds need some plumping up.

On Thursday 2 September at the Coffee Morning at the Salvation Army, we will be offering mothers who have regularly attended the group an opportunity to sell babies & children's clothes, toys etc, and also to sell maternity/nursing & women's wear. In return, the group will ask for a minimum donation of 10% of the money you take. You must take home with you everything that you do not sell, or it will be donated to the Salvation Army Lighthouse charity shop on Albert Road immediately following the Coffee Morning! You can invite other mothers you know to attend the Coffee Morning, but not to sell their items. If it raises some money and doesn't get too complicated, then a Pre-Loved Sale may become a regular fixture for LLL Portsmouth.

At the suggestion of a lovely group mother, I am also putting out a call for donations of nursing bras - any that are no longer used, too small or just bored with, please donate them and we will then sell them on via the group for a small donation of a £ or two. Please ask your friends if they have any old nursing bras lurking that they would like to donate too.

That's all the news for now, the post below this one should be the one will meeting dates for the rest of the year. Hope to see you soon. Enjoy the sunny summer days x

Dates for August - December 2010

We have found ourselves a new home for coffee mornings with some more space for the little people, so these will now be at the Salvation Army Hall on Albert Road (entrance through the wrought iron gates next to Ken's Kebabs).

Series meetings (where we hold an informal discussion group and our library is available) will continue in Lucy's home for now.

Coffee & Play (Salvation Army Hall):

Thursday 19 August 2010

Thursday 2 September 2010

Thursday 7 October 2010

(further dates TBC)

Series Meetings (Lucy's house):

Tuesday 14 September - Advantages of Breastfeeding

Tuesday 19 October 2010 - The Family & the Breastfed Baby

Tuesday 16 November 2010 - The Art of Breastfeeding & Avoiding Difficulties

Tuesday 14 December 2010 - Nutrition & Weaning

The titles of these meetings are a rough guide to how we will start our informal discussion. The focus of all sessions is mother-to-mother support and discussions will naturally adapt to the needs & questions of the mothers, babies & children present.

Please note that whilst our groups are completely free to attend, we will have to start paying for use of the Salvation Army Hall from October, so we are asking that whenever possible mothers make a small donation to the group. We suggest £1. These small donations mean that we can hire the hall, keep stocked with free teas & coffees and hand out free information leaflets, as well as contributing to advertising the group to local mothers and helping to purchase new books for our free lending library.

Feb/Mar meeting dates

We will be meeting on:

Thurs 11th Feb
Thurs 25th Feb
Thurs 11th Mar
Thurs 25th Mar

From 10am-12pm at the Kings Centre - location details can be found in an earlier post.

Our meetings

We meet twice a month. One meetings being a series meeting where we discuss a particular toppic about breastfeeding, though this is just part of the meeting and there is lots of time for mums to ask their own questions. The other meeting is more of a coffee morning giving lots of opportunity to ask questions and chat to other mums. The meetings are hosted by a La Leche Leader who are trained breastfeeding supporters. We also have a library of books which can be borrowed. We love to support both breastfeeding and pregnant women.