MORE THAN 130 protesting mums marched on County Hall , to make sure the county council does not wash its hands of the Baby Club Café.
All the mums who attend the centre in Wellington Street, Northampton, hit the streets last week to make as much noise as possible to protest against losing the café.
Both The Northampton Baby Café – specialist drop-in-clinic – and Mum-to-Mum peer support service are facing closure following potential funding cuts from Northamptonshire PCT and Northamptonshire County Council.
Outside County Hall on Friday protestors shouted, shook rattles and banged tambourines as they attempted to make councillors understand why they wanted to save the baby café.
One of the mums who uses the service is Lucy Curry who breastfeeds her five-month-old baby.
She said: “About 130 to 150 turned up and this was a really good turn-out given the fact everyone has got families but they feel very passionate about this issue.
“I hope the councillors do listen as we hope it is kept going and we needed to show people how important it is to us.
“We are really pleased everyone turned up to make a noise and to make people aware if this service is removed it will be sorely missed.
“If it does go then breast feeding rates will drop.
“We have more than 550 people on our Facebook site, we have a twitter account and we have 1,500 signatures on the petition.
“We are still looking at other sources of funding such as the lottery or grants.
“We are not shutting the door and we need to make the local authority aware it does have responsibilities and can’t wash its hand of us.”
