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Baby bank's urgent appeal as demand for help grows

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Wakefield, S. (2026, September 27). Baby bank's urgent appeal as demand for help grows. BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c81dl1qkxg7xo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

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BBC News · collected 2026-09-27 · by Sarah Wakefield

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Chantal Nogbou, founder of Leeds Baby Bank, is urgently seeking more donations as demand for the charity's services has increased significantly in recent months. Since June, the organization has assisted 550 families and expects further growth due to winter approaching. The charity, established in 2017 by Nogbou when she was a single parent of four children, provides essential items like Moses baskets, prams, nappies, and clothes to struggling families across Leeds. Government statistics show that 27% of children in the Yorkshire and Humber region live in relative low-income families, which highlights the growing need for such support services.
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Chantal Nogou founded the Leeds Baby Bank in 2017 to provide essential items like Moses baskets, prams, nappies, and clothes to struggling families across Leeds. Recently, she urgently appealed for more donations due to an increase in demand. Since June, the charity has helped an unprecedented 550 families, and Nogou expects this number to rise as winter approaches. The need is so great that even when families want to pay for heating, they still cannot afford basics like nappies and food. Leeds Baby Bank supports more children now than before the pandemic, with relative poverty affecting nearly half of children in some areas of Leeds.

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🔮 The charity will be 10 years old in January and Nogbou said that staff had seen a change in the families who needed their support over time.
2026-09-27 · assertive framing · Baby bank's urgent appeal as demand for help grows
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Armley Leeds Leeds Baby Bank

Subjects

Nogbou PERSON · 5× Leeds GPE · 3× Leeds Baby Bank ORG · 3× Moses PERSON · 2× Armley GPE · 1× Chantal Nogbou PERSON · 1×

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- Published The founder of a charity which provides essentials like Moses baskets, prams, nappies and clothes to struggling families across Leeds has said it urgently needs more donations to help keep up with demand.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-27
🔮 The charity will be 10 years old in January and Nogbou said that staff had seen a change in the families who needed their support over time.
2026-09-27 · BBC News
Baby bank's urgent appeal as demand for help grows · assertive framing

Claims (15 extracted, 2 hedged)

- Published The founder of a charity which provides essentials like Moses baskets, prams, nappies and clothes to struggling families across Leeds has said it urgently needs more donations to help keep up with demand. asserted
it → publish → demand
Chantal Nogbou said there had been a "massive increase" in the number of people referred by health and social care professionals to Leeds Baby Bank in recent months. asserted
Nogbou → say → months
Nogbou said staff had helped an "unprecedented" 550 families in Leeds since the start of June, and were expecting numbers to rise as winter loomed. asserted
winter → say → June
"We get even more people needing help then because they want to put the heating on, but they still need to buy nappies and feed and clothe their child," she said. asserted
she → get → child
Nogbou founded Leeds Baby Bank in 2017 when she was a single parent of four children, including twins, and she realised how many other families were struggling. asserted
families → found → twins
The charity will be 10 years old in January and Nogbou said that staff had seen a change in the families who needed their support over time. asserted
who → say → time
"When we started, pre-Covid, maybe one in five children in Leeds lived in relative poverty," she explained. " asserted
she → start → poverty
Now, you're looking at one in two children in some parts, and that's just a shocking number that really shouldn't be happening." asserted
that → look → parts
Nogbou said that about 70% of the children they helped had a parent who was working and she said many were "not managing to manage the bills with energy and fuel prices going up". asserted
prices → say → bills
According to government statistics, 27% of children in the Yorkshire and Humber region lived in relative low income families - the joint highest proportion, alongside the West Midlands, in the country. uncertain
% → accord → country
A relative low income family is one living on less than 60% of the median national household income for that year. asserted
family → live → year
Nogbou said the rise in referrals meant more financial challenges for the charity, especially after moving from a city centre office to a larger and more accessible building in Armley which could now provide more services. "All that has cost money and obviously bills for us have also gone up when it comes to the utilities, so it's definitely a scary thing as a charity," she said. uncertain
she → say → charity
She added that it was the donations of items and money from the community that had kept the charity going. asserted
that → add → charity
"It's the people that, instead of buying a coffee every day, set up a direct debit and send £5 to Leeds Baby Bank every month," she said. asserted
she → buy → Bank
"That £5 can buy something like a brand new mattress for a Moses basket." asserted
5 → buy → basket
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