Press

Breast Buddies has been in the press recently.

The International Breastfeeding Awareness Week project to collate people's experiences of breastfeeding in different countries was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 2nd August.
Breast Buddies has been mentioned twice on the Baby Milk Action website blog: on 18th July and on 1st August.
Breast Buddies was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 14th May to raise awareness of Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
The launch of the Breastfeeding Belles exhibition was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 12th May 2008.
A competition to find the favourite Breastfeeding Belle, as voted by readers of the Yorkshire Evening Post was mentioned on 5th May 2008.
The poster campaign was mentioned in the Spring edition of Smalltalk magazine.
The poster campaign was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 22nd February 2008.
We were mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 8th January 2008 and on 28th December 2007.
We also featured in the Autumn edition of Smalltalk magazine.

If you would like to write an article about Breast Buddies then please contact Kathryn on 0113 260 4187 or at director@breastbuddies.org

Breastfeeding in the local press 2007

In addition, Kathryn (our director) was in the local press on numerous occasions during 2007 promoting breastfeeding in Leeds.

Meeting Hilary Benn MP (YEP, 25th May 2007)

Kathryn handed a petition of over 400 signatures of people supporting the breastfeeding manifesto to Hilary Benn MP on Friday 18th May. A photo and article about it appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Friday 25th May.

http://www.leedstoday.net/news?articleid=2904936

Please click here for the response.

Breastfeeding Awareness Week (13th - 19th 16th May 2007)

Kathryn featured in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Wednesday 16th May

http://www.leedstoday.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2878922&sectionid=39

and on Monday 14th May click here for article

The mass breastfeed at IKEA featured on BBC Look North on Monday 14th May

lunchtime news http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6650000/newsid_6654400?redirect=6654453.stm&news=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1 >

evening news (the IKEA event is mentioned half way through the show)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/england/realmedia/looknorthyorkslincs/looknorth?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1

You CAN do it here! (NHS Networks, 2nd May 2007)

The 'You CAN do it here!' project and the free cuppa campaign were mentioned on Wednesday 2nd May at http://www.networks.nhs.uk/news.php?nid=1486

Free cuppa campaign (YEP, 16th April 2007)

The free cuppa campaign was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Monday 16th April. See the following link for the article:
http://www.leedstoday.net/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=39&articleid=2704209

Council leisure centres (YEP, 14th April 2007)

News about the council's decision to display the breastfeeding welcome stickers in the leisure centres was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Saturday 14th April. See the following link for the article:
http://www.leedstoday.net/news?ArticleID=2702966

You CAN do it here! (BBC Radio Leeds, 4th April 2007)

Kathryn appeared on the BBC Leeds breakfast show again on Wednesday 4th April, listen to the interview (MP3 format, 6.9MB).

You CAN do it here! (BBC Radio Leeds, 26th February 2007)

Kathryn was interviewed by Andrew and Georgey on BBC Radio Leeds breakfast show on Monday 26th February, listen to the interview (MP3 format, 7.8MB).

You CAN do it here! (YEP, 19th February 2007)

The project was mentioned in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Monday 19th February. See the following link for the article:
http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=2057765