Mum to mum breastfeeding peer support and information on our drop ins and Breastfeeding Welcome venues.
For individual support please call 020 3316 8439 or send us a message here.
23/10/2025
Do you have breast milk which is surplus to your baby's needs? It could be donated to help premature babies in hospital neonatal intensive care and can help save lives.❤️ Becoming a milk donor is a simple process which our team can talk you through. It involves a blood test and questionnaire, and you will need to be:
⭐️A non-smoker / non-vaper
⭐️Able to express at least 2 litres of milk within a 10 week period, or have a freezer stash of surplus milk which was expressed in the last 10 weeks and frozen within 24 hours of being expressed.
⭐️Based in Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, North London, Sussex, Bedfordshire or South Wales
⭐️If you are taking certain medications this may not be compatible with donating milk. Please contact our team for more information.
Taking the time to become a milk donor is an amazing step. You could be changing the lives of a tiny baby and their family forever.
If your little ones ever have commercial baby foods, check this out 👇 got questions about starting or progressing with solid foods? Ask your health visiting team about Islington's range of workshops to support you
You may have seen in the news today that new guidelines require manufacturers to reduce sugar and salt in all shop-bought baby foods. Manufacturers will have 18 months to reformulate their products, lowering sugar and salt levels without adding sweeteners. Plus, clearer labelling will make it easier for families to understand exactly what’s in their baby’s food.
It's worth remembering that shop-bought options like pouches, jars and snacks should still only be used occasionally – not every day, and babies under 12 months don’t need snacks at all (homemade or shop-bought). 🍎💚
St Luke’s Community Centre, 90 Central Street, EC1V 8AJ.
Come along if you need some support with breastfeeding, alternatively call our office number on 020 3316 8439. You can also seek support from the National Breastfeeding Helpline on 0300 100 0212. (24/7)
18/08/2025
💜💜Breastfeeding Support in Islington week commencing 18th August 2025 💜💜
Come along to our drop-in sessions this week if you need support and information about feeding. Please note a reduced number of sessions.
💜MONDAY
1.30-3.00pm New River Green Children’s Centre, 23 Ramsey Walk, N1 2SX
💜TUESDAY
NO DROP-IN RUNNING AT BEMERTON. THE CENTRE IS CLOSED. OUR NEXT SESSION IS 2nd SEPTEMBER.
💜WEDNESDAY
10-11.30am Online support. Please book through Eventbrite
💜THURSDAY
10.00-11.30am St Luke’s Community Centre, 90 Central Street, EC1V 8AJ
💜FRIDAY
NO DROP-IN RUNNING AT AMBLER. THE CENTRE IS CLOSED. OUR NEXT DROP-IN IS 6th SEPTEMBER.
There is no need to book any of our groups, you can turn up any time during the timeslot, but we advise being there at least 30 minutes before the end to have time to access support.
For details of our full service find us at: bit.ly/babyfeedingislington
Or you can call us on 020 3316 8439
Out of office hours, you can call The National Breastfeeding Helpline on 0300 100 0212 (24/7)
08/08/2025
💜💜Breastfeeding Support in Islington week commencing 11th August 2025 💜💜
Come along to our drop-in sessions this week if you need support and information about feeding.
💜MONDAY
1.30-3.00pm New River Green Children’s Centre, 23 Ramsey Walk, N1 2SX
💜WEDNESDAY
10-11.30am Online support. Please book through Eventbrite
💜THURSDAY
10.00-11.30am St Luke’s Community Centre, 90 Central Street, EC1V 8AJ
💜FRIDAY
NO DROP-IN RUNNING AT AMBLER. THE CENTRE IS CLOSED. OUR NEXT DROP-IN IS 6th SEPTEMBER.
There is no need to book any of our groups, you can turn up any time during the timeslot, but we advise being there at least 30 minutes before the end to have time to access support.
For details of our full service find us at: bit.ly/babyfeedingislington
Or you can call us on 020 3316 8439
Out of office hours, you can call The National Breastfeeding Helpline on 0300 100 0212 (24/7)
Address
Bingfield Primary Care Centre, 8 Bingfield Street London N10AL
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Our breastfeeding peer supporters - mums who have breastfed their own babies before having training to help other mums - are here to help Islington’s families with feeding from pregnancy through infancy and beyond. Whatever your breastfeeding goals, we aim to make sure you have the information and support you need to achieve them successfully, comfortably and confidently. You may meet our team, in their distinctive purple shirts, on the postnatal ward and will usually receive a phonecall when you first get home from hospital. You can also call or message us yourself whenever you need support. We run breastfeeding support groups across the borough every day of the week, or we may be able to visit you at home if needed. Our free service is available to all Islington families.
Our breastfeeding support groups are all ‘drop ins’ so you can come along at any point during the session. Some of them run alongside health visitor or midwife clinics so you can pop in after you or your baby have had a health review. If you have particular issues or questions, our supporters are on hand to help, of course, but if you’re looking for a way to meet other breastfeeding families or simply a comfortable place to feed your baby, we’ll be just as happy to see you. Babies and children of any age are very welcome, and so is anyone you bring to support you (although we do ask that men understand that we may need to be flexible according to the needs of other mums). We love to meet bumps as well as babies, so do come along while you’re pregnant too so you know where to find us, and to find out more about what you can expect from breastfeeding in the early days.
Outside of office hours, national support is available between 9.30am-9.30pm from the National Breastfeeding Helpline on 0300 100 0212 (press 2 for support in Polish) or the Breastfeeding Network Supporterline on 0300 100 0210 (or 0300 456 2421 for support in Bengali/Sylheti), or by webchat at www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/chat. There’s lots of useful videos at globalhealthmedia.org/breastfeeding and information and videos at unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/support-for-parents. If you need to take any medication, the pharmacists at www.facebook.com/BfNDrugsinBreastmilkinformation can support you and your health professionals to find the most appropriate options.
Fancy training with us to support other mums yourself? There’s more info on how it works at www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/get-involved/. Let us know you’re interested by phone or message, and we’ll keep you posted on course availability in Islington and nearby boroughs.
About your data: Our staff and volunteers are trained and managed by the Breastfeeding Network but we collect, access and process your data exclusively within and on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust, as part of your antenatal, postnatal and early years care. Data is stored on secure Trust systems for the purposes of providing care to you and your child(ren) and for service evaluation, and may be shared with health or social care partners should they be involved or required to be involved in providing care or treatment to you or your child. No personal information is shared with the wider Breastfeeding Network organisation without your express consent. More information on Whittington Health’s privacy and data protection policies, under which we operate, can be found at www.whittington.nhs.uk. Our breastfeeding support groups are also part of the Bright Start Islington family of support and activities for under-fives and families (www.islington.gov.uk/brightstart) but your data is not shared with Bright Start and you will be asked to register separately to receive other services from them. Information collected in groups may be temporarily stored in Children’s Centres but where this occurs it is held securely with restricted access and safely transferred to our offices as soon as possible.
