Baby Basics Wrexham
Baby Basics Wrexham is a volunteer-led project aiming to support new mothers and families who are struggling to meet the financial and practical burden of looking after a new baby. We work closely with local healthcare professionals and other agencies to ensure that the most vulnerable in the communities in and around Wrexham are provided for. Baby Basics Wrexham provides much needed essentials and equipment to mothers and families who are unable to provide these items for themselves; including but not limited to teenage mums, people seeking asylum and women fleeing domestic abuse and trafficking.
About Us
Baby Basics Wrexham is a volunteer-led project which was started by a local mum and teacher, Sarah Davies, along with support from many at Christ Church during the pandemic in 2021 in the Priory Centre. She loved the Baby Basics model and we joined the network. In February 2021 our first hamper went out and we have slow increased our number of referrals and referrers over the years.
In 2023, Sarah Opper took on the role of Centre Manager when our founder moved to another part of Wales. The oversight of the project moved from Christ Church to Community Church at this point as well.
In 2024, we moved from our original location in the city centre to the heart of our largest estate – in a collection of buildings, one of which is the central working point for many midwives and health visitors in Wrexham. We are grateful for the proximity to referrers, convenient parking and ground floor work space this new location enjoys.
BBW started with a small team from the church and now we have over 10 regular volunteers and make up 10-15 hampers per month. The volunteers have such a lovely time sorting out the baby clothing and making the hampers look like beautiful gifts – it’s a joyful atmosphere every Monday morning.
We are located at Caia Park Partnership, Blue Building, Wrexham LL13 8TH. We are open for donations Monday 9.30 – 11.30.
Meet the Team
Our amazing team is made up of 10 volunteers, who give their time to sort donations, pack referrals, and more.
Connect
Baby Basics Wrexham awarded National Lottery Funding
A community group that provides support to local families is celebrating its third birthday with a funding boost from the National Lottery.
Get Help
We work by professional referral only. We take referrals from any organisation working with families, including midwives, health visitors local council, housing charities, churches and community organisations.
We support families with children from pre-birth up to and including babies aged 6m.
Families
If you live in Wrexham, are expecting a baby or have a child from pre-birth to 6 months old, and need help with items for your family, we can help.
Please talk to your midwife, health visitor, social care professional, or a charity or community organisation that is supporting you. They will be able to make a referral on your behalf. We do not accept self referrals.
If you have not seen you health visitor for a while or do not know hot to contact them, contact your GP or local Family Hub who will be able to tell you.
Make a Referral
If you are a midwife, health visitor, social worker, council staff or other profession working with expectant and new mothers, who is working in Wrexham borough, you are welcome to request baby equipment and essential toiletries for your clients. There is no specific criteria for a referral – we trust your professional judgement that a need is present.
There is a referral request form (on this site) which you can download and fill in and send to us from your work email address. Someone will respond with the date you can come and pick up your referral so you can deliver it to your client directly at your convenience.
We aim to provide the hampers about six weeks before baby is due so lots of lead time from referrers helps us to make the hampers is the best possible order.
If you work with vulnerable women or families who are struggling to provide for their newborn baby please get in touch with us.
Telephone referral
If you think that you would benefit from one of our hampers, your first port of call is to your midwife, health visitor or other professional supporting you. The best way for them to get in touch with us about getting help is via our Facebook page or by email.
Give Help
Donating secondhand items
90% of what we provide are high quality secondhand, preloved items. We have a set donation list for all items we accept. Additional we update our “currently needed” donations list a few times a month and post those on our Facebook & Instagram pages.
Please only bring items listed below as these are what is needed. Items not on this list take time to process and will be passed on elsewhere if our stocks are full.
We ask that all items are washed and sorted into sizes/categories in clearly labelled bags before being brought to us to speed up our processing.
Donating equipment
We have limited storage space at Baby Basics Wrexham and as such are limited to what equipment we can accept.
Equipment we accept:
- Moses baskets and stands
- Changing mats (no rips or tears)
- Change bags (clean with no rips or tears)
- Baby baths
If you have larger baby equipment to donate, that is not on this list, please contact Baby Equipment Bank Wrexham.
We cannot accept any items that are broken, have missing parts or need excessive cleaning.
Donating new items
Whilst clothing and soft items can be preloved, we require all toiletries to be brand new. We can accept opened packs of nappies but everything else must be sealed and unused.
You can donate in the following way:
- Buy and drop items to us at at Caia Park Partnership, Blue Building, Wrexham LL13 8TH – we are open on Monday 9.30 – 11.30.
- Buy from our Amazon wishlist and it will be shipped to us directly.
We cannot accept:
- Baby formula milk
- Talcum powder
Donating financially
Regular or one-off
If you’d like to make a regular contribution on just a one-off donation you can donate by:
Giving at Stewardship through our covering charity, Father’s Place
- add a note that it’s “for Baby Basics” at
https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20136649
Give by bank transfer (one off or standing orders welcome)
- Bank: Caf Bank
- Account name: Father’s Place
- Account: 20401731
- Sort Code: 83-91-46
- Reference: Baby Basics
To donate financial with a cheque, please email us at babybasicswrexham@gmail.com.
How can you get involved?
Besides donating your preloved clothing & baby items, buying new toiletries or purchasing new items from our Amazon wishlist, you can get involved in a number of other ways!
The main need is for people who can come in once a month on a Monday morning.
- Volunteer – Come and join our friendly team make up referral bundles, sort donations and more. Most volunteers need to be able to lift tubs of clothing off shelving but adaptations can be made.
If you can’t help on a Monday and need a more flexible time commitment, we need volunteers who…
- Wash – Do you enjoy washing clothing? These volunteers can collect clothing in need of a freshen up and bring them back clean and sorted by size.
- Iron – Do you enjoy ironing? We’ve heard that some people do :) We’re looking for people to collect clothing from us, iron it and return it.
- Pick up items locally – we occasionally receive requests for items to be picked up and brought to us, for example of the donor doesn’t drive.
- Knit & Crochet – We love giving out homemade items such as blankets, cardigans, booties and hats. We have specific requirements for what we are able to accept so please get in touch.
If you prefer to get involved in a more one-off or distanced way, then you could…
- Donation drive – Organise your office/school/community to do a donation drive for items and financial gifts
- Social Media – Like our Facebook or Instagram page and share our posts. This actually helps us out a lot more than you’d think!
- Fundraising – We can support anyone who would like to fundraise for us.
If you’d would like to join our brilliant team please contact us at babybasicswrexham@gmail.com, call us on 07903 879957, or fill out the form below.