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A. La Leche League's Mission
B. La Leche League - The Beginning
C. La Leche League International
D. La Leche League GB
E. La Leche League GB Trustees
F. La Leche League GB Financial Reports
A. La
Leche League's Mission
To help mothers to breastfeed through mother-to-mother
support, encouragement, information and education, and to
promote a better understanding, of breastfeeding as an
important element in the healthy development of the baby
and the mother
B. La
Leche League - The Beginning
- La Leche League began with a wish - a dream, really -
that all mothers who wanted to breastfeed their babies
would be able to do so.
- LLL was founded by seven mothers to help their
friends, who were wanting to breastfeed their babies but
found only frustration and failure when they tried. They
invited pregnant friends to a meeting one October
evening in 1956. What they offered to interested local
mothers then - and what the 40,000 La Leche League
Leaders who followed them, continue to provide - was
information, encouragement, and support.
C. La
Leche League International
- has grown into a world-wide organisation with 3,000
mother-to-mother support groups in over sixty countries
plus many other outreach programmes. Wherever an LLL
group blossoms the focus remains the same - to offer
accurate breastfeeding information backed by warm,
caring, mother-to-mother support so that new mothers
(whatever their place or circumstance) can gain the
confidence they need to breastfeed their babies.
- stands today as the internationally recognised
authority on breastfeeding, contacted by mothers,
fathers, doctors, nurses, lactation consultants and
other professionals throughout the world.
- with International headquarters in Illinois, USA, LLLI
serves as a Non-Governmental Organisation Consultant to
UNICEF, an agency of the United Nations, and the World
Health Organisation, and contributes its expertise to
many other organisations, agencies and alliances around
the world.
D. La
Leche League GB
- is one of six La Leche League, in-country
organisations which stand in Affiliate status with La
Leche League International (LLLI) - the others being in
Canada, French Canada, Germany, New Zealand and
Switzerland.
- started as an LLLI Area in approx 1971, registered as
a UK charity in 1981, and became an LLLI Affiliate in
1984.
- has over 200 accredited Leaders, 75 local groups, and
around 150 LLLGB-trained Peer Counsellor Programmes
spread throughout Great Britain.
- has a small number of administrative staff; but much
of the work of running the organisation is carried out
by the volunteer-Leaders, who also run local groups and
work directly with mothers.
E. La
Leche League GB Trustees
is governed by a Council of Directors (the trustees),
elected mainly from amongst the body of volunteer-Leaders:
- Anna Burbidge - Chair
- Morgan Gallagher - General Director
- Rebecca Jenkins-Handy - General Director
- Fiona Jones - General
Director
- Sue Latham - General
Director
- Ellen Matteer -
General Director
- Sadie Morrison -
General Director
- Lois Rowlands -
Publications Director
- Helen Russ - Leader Department Director
A warm welcome to our newly appointed directors, Sue,
Lois, Sadie, Fiona and Ellen. We have room for 6 more
directors which are being sought, both inside and outside
the organisation, to bring a broad skill-base to the work
of the trustees. If you have relevant experience and would
be interested in helping us to further our mission by
serving on our Council of Directors, please go to our
Contact Us page and select the 'Central Office (general
enquiries)' Department.
Contact Us page
F. La
Leche League GB Financial Reports
For further information about LLLGB, please read our
(Note: these links lead to PDF documents, which may take a
little time to open)
You may also like to see a summary of our financial
position in past years on Charity Commission
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