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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
- Sue Cardus - General Director
- Helen Hannibal - General Director
- Chris Lewis - General Director
- Linda Rowland - Leader Accreditation Department Director
- Helen Russ - Leader Department Director
Two new directors have recently been co-opted - Morgan Gallagher and Rebecca Jenkins-Handy - welcome to them.
Jane Gilbert has recently retired for family reasons.
More directors 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
contact us
F. La Leche League GB Financial Reports
For further information about LLLGB, please read our
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