Tommy’s Jinglethon!
Tommy’s, the miscarriage and stillbirth charity, and Jo Jingles, the children’s music, singing and movement experience, hosted Jinglethon events in Aylesbury last week,supported by children’s food company, Little Dish.
The series of Jinglethon events, taking place across the area at Jo Jingles classes, saw hundreds of local babies and toddlers aged 3 months to 5 years saving other babies’ lives by dressing up as nature explorers and being sponsored to participate in a fun musical explorers programme. Donations raised by the little ones will go to Tommy’s to fund further research into miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth.
Jinglethon hopes to raise £100,000. This could help up to 6,000 families visit Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research, and realise their dream of having a baby. At present, 1 in 4 women in the UK lose a baby during pregnancy or just after birth, and around 1 in every 27 babies are stillborn per year, equivalent to 10 babies a day. In addition, 684 babies are miscarried a day.
Jane Brewin, Chief Executive at Tommy’s has said, “Jinglethon is a great way for parents and carers to involve their little ones in a good cause. Tommy’s relies on the generosity and hard work of its supporters like Jo Jingles to continue its pioneering research to prevent pregnancy complications. We’re so grateful to everyone who took part.”
For more information on the Jinglethon, including how to donate to Tommy’s, please go to www.tommys.org/jinglethon.
About Tommy’s
Tommy’s funds research into pregnancy problems and provides information to parents. We believe it is unacceptable that one in four women lose a baby during pregnancy and birth. When a pregnancy fails or a baby dies, it causes devastation. Twenty-five years ago, frustrated at the lack of research that meant they could rarely tell families why their babies were dying, two obstetricians in St Thomas’ Hospital in London were inspired to start a campaign for more research into pregnancy problems. Soon, their cause was taken up by others and a charity known as ‘Tommy’s’ (after St Thomas’ Hospital) was born. That was 1992. Today, we lead the way in maternal and fetal research in the UK.
For more information, visit www.tommys.org.
About Jo Jingles
For more than 22 years, award-winning Jo Jingles has provided music, singing and movement experience classes for babies and pre-school children from three months to five years of age. With nationwide sessions in more than 1000 centres across the UK and Ireland and with over 90 franchisees, Jo Jingles offers well-established, structured classes that are fun, interactive and educational for little ones.
Launched in 1991, Jo Jingles continues to promote learning through music across many of the UK’s nurseries, Sure Start Children’s Centres, playgroups, mother & toddler groups and in schools too. Jo Jingles Birthday parties and celebrations are also available to book and a range of fun musical-themed merchandise including toys, CDs and musical instruments can be purchased at classes or online at www.jojingles.com.
For more information, visit www.jojingles.com, facebook.com/jojingleshq1, @JoJinglesHQ, jojingleshq
About Little Dish
Founded by mother of two, Hillary Graves, Little Dish has been making proper, healthy food for children for over ten years.Everything in the award-winning Little Dish range – which includes chilled toddler meals and pizzas, teatime classics such as Spaghetti Hoops and Macaroni Cheese, healthy cooking sauces and snacks – is approved by leading dietitian Lucy Jones MRES BSC Hons RD MBDA to be perfectly nutritionally balanced for toddlers. Little Dish is available in the Chilled Meals Aisle and the Baby Aisle in all major supermarkets. Find out more atwww.Littledish.co.uk, facebook.com/littledish, @little_dish, LittledishUK