Mum and baby charity closing after funding cut

Blossom and Bloom has 500 families registered from across Denbighshire

A mother and baby charity which has helped 700 families, including homeless mums and their children, is shutting down because of cuts to its funding.

Blossom and Bloom runs two hubs in the White Rose Centre in Rhyl, Denbighshire, to help with support and socialising as well as training and education.

Vicky Welsman-Millard, who founded the organisation in 2020, said the "devastating" closure next month came after the local authority said it would not be giving it any money from the UK government's Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).

Denbighshire council said it had to reduce the amount given to all projects due to a "significant reduction in available funding".

One woman who turned to the charity in 2023 after she became homeless with a baby and a toddler said Blossom and Bloom "literally saved" her.

Eloise Garland, 30, who now lives in Llandudno, Conwy county, said the organisation "supported her in so many different ways", including her wellbeing, with her children and to find housing.

She said it was "heart breaking" to think the facility where she made so many friends and found a "support network" was closing.

"The impact they have on parents is so great... they take a lot of pressure off other services," she added.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gg20y4q0o