Welcoming a new baby should be a joyful and exciting time. However, for many families, the cost of essential baby items can create overwhelming financial pressure.
Baby banks exist to support families during some of life’s most challenging moments. Working alongside midwives, health visitors, social workers and community professionals, they provide carefully prepared bundles of essential items tailored to each family’s needs.
Baby banks provide more than essential items. They offer reassurance, dignity and practical support to families who need it most, while helping ensure quality baby products are reused rather than wasted.
For families facing unexpected challenges, access to essential baby items can make an immediate and meaningful difference. Baby banks help ensure that children have access to safe sleeping spaces, clothing, feeding equipment, and everyday essentials when families need them most.
Support from baby banks can help reduce stress for parents and carers, allowing them to focus on their child’s wellbeing during difficult times. By providing practical help, these organisations play an important role in strengthening local communities and supporting early childhood development.
Baby banks also encourage sustainable parenting by redistributing high-quality items, helping reduce waste while supporting families in need.
At Clair de Lune, supporting families has always been at the heart of what we do. Through partnerships with Baby Banks across the UK, we help provide safe, comfortable essentials for babies and young children when families need them most.
For many families, preparing for a new baby can be overwhelming, particularly during times of financial hardship or crisis. By working closely with Baby Banks, we help ensure parents and carers can access the essentials they need to give their baby a safe and comfortable start.
We support Baby Banks in several ways, including providing charity pricing on essential products, donating items, and working directly with organisations to understand the needs of the families they support.
Our Moses baskets, bedding, blankets and nursery essentials are often included in starter bundles given to new parents. These bundles help create a safe sleeping space and provide comfort during an important and sometimes challenging stage of family life.
Every partnership allows us to extend our mission beyond our products and into communities where support can make a real and lasting difference.
Every product donated or supplied through our charity partnerships helps create safe, nurturing environments for babies across the UK.
"Support from Clair de Lune has enabled us to provide families with high-quality, safe products, making a real difference to the families we support."
Baby Basics
We are proud to work alongside Baby Banks and charities across the UK that provide essential support to families with babies and young children. Each organisation plays a vital role in their local community, helping ensure families have access to the essentials they need during challenging times.
In 2025, our partners continued to make an incredible impact. For example, KidsBank supported 3,095 children and gifted 124,329 essential items, including Moses baskets, cot beds, clothing, toys, and school uniforms.
Baby Basics Milton Keynes supports families facing financial hardship by providing essential items for babies and young children.
Baby Basics Bolton and Bury provides Moses basket starter packs and essential baby equipment to vulnerable families. Referrals are made through health and social care professionals supporting families facing a wide range of challenges.
Baby Basics Belfast was established in April 2017 to support families across the Greater Belfast area who are facing crisis or financial hardship. Working under Church Army and the Anglican Diocese of Connor, the charity provides essential starter packs for babies and children up to age four, including Moses baskets, baby baths and laundry baskets filled with everyday essentials. All families are referred through local health professionals, ensuring support reaches those who need it most while helping redistribute good quality baby items that may otherwise go to landfill.
Baby Necessities supports families experiencing poverty and hardship by collecting high-quality baby and children’s essentials. Donations are carefully checked and packed into tailored bundles by volunteers before being distributed to families referred by professionals.
KidsBank works to alleviate child poverty by providing practical items for families in need. They support children aged 0–12 across Cheshire West & Chester and Flintshire, providing essentials such as clothing, toiletries, school uniforms, cot beds, Moses baskets, prams, and toys. Their services rely on donations from local communities, volunteers, and partnerships with organisations like Clair de Lune to supply safe sleep solutions for babies.
Ten Little Toes supports families across West Sussex by providing essential items for children aged 0–12. Each bundle is individually packed to meet the needs of families referred for support.
Baby Basics Plymouth operates from St Peter and the Holy Apostles Church in Stonehouse, one of Plymouth’s most deprived communities. The charity supports families referred by healthcare professionals who urgently need essential items to care for their newborn babies.
Volunteers prepare bundles filled with clothing, toiletries and safe sleep essentials, helping families welcome their babies with dignity and support during challenging times.
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Care supports families experiencing poverty and crisis through four interconnected services: a Baby Bank, Children’s Clothing Bank, Hygiene Bank and School Uniform Bank. Working across Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and surrounding communities, the charity provides essential items free of charge to help ease financial pressure and ensure children have the basics they need to thrive.
Through referrals, outreach programmes and partnerships with local schools and family centres, the organisation reaches families who may otherwise struggle in silence, offering practical support, dignity and reassurance when it matters most.
Brierley Hill Babybank provides essential items and practical support to families experiencing hardship across the Dudley and Sandwell boroughs. Supporting families from pregnancy through to age two, the charity ensures babies have safe places to sleep, warm clothing and the essentials needed for healthy early development.
Through referrals and community partnerships, the team helps parents feel supported and better equipped to navigate early parenthood during challenging times.
We're proud to work with both individual Baby Banks and organisations that unite charities across the UK to bring real change for families.
The Baby Bank Alliance connects baby banks nationwide, helping families access essential items wherever they are. While we don't work with every charity in the network, many of our partners are members, meaning our support reaches even further.
In Manchester, our home base, we work closely with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which recently launched the first city-wide Baby Bank Network. This network unites local charities, increases capacity, joins up resources, and reaches more parents in need. GMCA and NHS Greater Manchester are also introducing an enhanced Safer Sleep offer, including safe bedding, room thermometers, and safe sleep guidance for families in crisis.
By partnering with national and local initiatives, we help ensure families across the UK have access to essential nursery items, while supporting charity networks that amplify the impact of every donation.
1,753 Moses baskets funded by GMCA in June 2025
"Supporting these wonderful baby banks is something we care deeply about, and we remain committed to providing safe-sleep solutions for families who need them the most. Knowing that our products can help bring comfort and peace of mind to parents is something that truly motivates our team every day."
Helping every child under five in South Yorkshire get a safe place to sleep.
We are proud to partner with Baby Basics UK to support the Beds for Babies programme, funded by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. This pilot ensures families in need have access to cots, cot beds, Moses baskets, toddler beds, mattresses, and bedding bundles - all free of charge.
The launch in Goldthorpe, Barnsley has already:
South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard said: "Every child deserves the best possible start in life, and that begins with a safe place to sleep."
How it works:
This programme highlights our commitment to expanding safe sleep solutions and supporting families when they need it most.
Baby Banks rely on community support to help families access essential items for their babies and children. There are many simple ways you can make a meaningful difference.
Many Baby Banks accept gently used baby essentials such as clothing, blankets, equipment and toys. These items are cleaned, safety checked and packed into bundles for families who need them most.
Always check with your local Baby Bank to see which items they are currently accepting.
New items such as nappies, toiletries, feeding products and safe sleep essentials are always in demand. These items help Baby Banks create complete starter bundles for new families.
Every purchase made with Clair de Lune helps support our ongoing work with Baby Banks. By choosing our products, you help us continue supplying essential items and supporting families across the UK.
Sharing information about Baby Banks helps more families access the support available and encourages donations from local communities.
Whether donating items, spreading awareness or supporting brands that work with charities, every action helps provide comfort, dignity and safe beginnings for babies and families.
Supporting families is an important part of Clair de Lune's mission. Through partnerships with Baby Banks and charitable organisations, we work to help provide safe sleep spaces, essential nursery items and practical support to families across the UK.
We are proud to contribute to initiatives that help families during challenging times and promote sustainability by helping reduce waste through redistribution of quality baby essentials.
Working alongside Baby Banks allows us to extend our impact beyond our products and into communities where support is needed most. Each partnership helps provide safe sleep spaces, clothing bundles, nursery equipment and essential supplies to families facing financial hardship or crisis.
As we continue to grow, we remain committed to strengthening our partnerships and expanding the support we can offer through charity initiatives and product donations.
We are committed to continuing our charitable partnerships and improving transparency around the support we provide. In the future, we plan to share dedicated impact reports highlighting the difference our partnerships make for families and communities.
Alongside our established charity partners, we have recently expanded our support to include cots and cot beds, helping ensure babies have safe sleep spaces from day one. These partnerships, which also include donations of Moses baskets and essential nursery items, allow us to respond to real, everyday needs within local communities. As these relationships grow, we look forward to sharing more of their stories and the impact we are making together.
Every safe sleeping space, every essential item and every donation helps give babies a safe and supported start in life. We are incredibly grateful to the charities, volunteers and communities who work alongside us to support families across the UK.
