Leeds Baby Bank, a charity which supplies vulnerable families with vital supplies for their babies, needs to find a new home as their current location in the St John's centre is no longer viable.
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00:00 How does Leeds Baby Bank help families?
00:03 So Leeds Baby Bank has been around for almost 7 years
00:07 and we help the most vulnerable families in our city with baby essentials.
00:12 That can be anything from cots, beds, prams, high chairs, sterilisers,
00:18 like baby monitors to clothes, food, nappies, bottles, everything that we need.
00:24 We support families with children up to the age of 5 with Leeds postcodes
00:30 and we have been supporting many, many, many families over the last 6 and a half years
00:37 with our amazing team of staff and volunteers
00:40 and all the donations that we're getting from the wider public around us
00:45 but actually we really, really need a new home.
00:48 So we've been very, very lucky that we've been housed at the St John's Centre
00:52 in Leeds City Centre for the last 5 plus years
00:56 but they have a lot of plans for the future and they have some interest in the units
01:01 that we have been so kindly using for free for the last few years.
01:06 So we need, desperately need new premises.
01:10 It doesn't matter where it is in Leeds, like ideally if it's East Leeds or South Leeds
01:16 because this is where the need for our service is the highest, so we'd like to be in those areas
01:21 but it's not a must.
01:23 If it's a unit that has at least 3,500 square footage
01:28 so we can house all these amazing donations that people keep giving to us
01:32 so we can pass them on to families.
01:34 Ground floor, so our staff and our volunteers no longer have to mess with goods lift
01:39 which is what they have been doing.
01:42 Ideally a car park so people can come up and drop their donations off
01:47 come and see what Leeds Baby Bank is like.
01:50 If somebody has a building that's empty and they want to give it to us for free
01:55 we would love that.
01:57 Otherwise if you see a building that is in your area, that's near where you work
02:01 and you think would this be suitable for Baby Bank, please, please, please send us the link.
02:06 We need to find a home somewhere in the next few months.
02:10 We're looking I think to move by the end of the year.
02:13 If you have a business or you work for an office that does a lot of charity work
02:17 that's say well actually we maybe could commit to a yearly donation for a few years
02:24 and exchange, we could have your logo on the outside of the building saying
02:28 this Baby Bank home was being made possible by this company.
02:32 So all the passing traffic sees your lovely kind support.
02:37 So if anybody can help with any locations, please give us a shout
02:44 and just follow Leeds Baby Bank on all our social media.
02:48 So from me, I didn't even say, I'm Chantella, co-founder of this charity back in January 2017
02:58 and on behalf of all our team, our staff, our volunteers, the trustees
03:04 and all the children that have been helped by the kindness of families and people around Leeds so far
03:12 you know from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.