{"id":15762,"date":"2024-07-10T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/?p=15762"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:25:42","slug":"staggering-fundraising-from-baby-sensory-toddler-sense-classes-to-fund-tommys-pregnancy-research-centre-for-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/staggering-fundraising-from-baby-sensory-toddler-sense-classes-to-fund-tommys-pregnancy-research-centre-for-over-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Fundraising from Baby Sensory & Toddler Sense Classes to\u00a0Fund Tommy\u2019s Pregnancy Research Centre for Over a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nationwide baby and toddler groups have raised over half a million for research into the prevention of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth<\/em><\/p>\n

Multi award-winning preschool classes, Baby Sensory, and Toddler Sense, have collectively raised more than \u00a3518,000 for Tommy\u2019s, a pregnancy charity that funds vital research into miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth in a bid to save more lives. The total money raised by the popular classes, is enough to fund a Tommy\u2019s pregnancy information and support service for over a year, enabling scientists to continue their important live-saving work.<\/p>\n

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This year, the funds were raised as part of a nationwide campaign, Tommy\u2019s Sensathon, in partnership with Baby Sensory and Toddler Sense franchises across the UK. The Hawaiian themed initiative, Aloha! saw little ones dress up in their hula skirts and Hawaiian shirts and complete several sponsored themed challenges at the popular baby and toddler classes, which were specially created for Tommy\u2019s by founder of Baby Sensory and Toddler Sense, Dr Lin Day.<\/p>\n

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The children engaged in a variety of activities designed to enhance development and enjoyed Hawaiian themed music, while they surfed the waves with \u2018Pip the Pup\u2019, won prizes and were awarded special certificates for completing some challenges.<\/p>\n

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Sean McKeon, Managing Director at Baby Sensory commented, \u201cWe are over the moon to have raised such an incredible amount of money for Tommy\u2019s again this year. We are thankful to our wonderful parent community and their amazing children for the fantastic response to our special Aloha! classes and for their huge efforts with costumes and sponsorships. We know what a difference this funding makes to people\u2019s lives every day, and that is what makes this achievement feel so rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since the first Sensathon was launched back in 2014, Baby Sensory has raised almost \u00a32 million for the free service, which includes expert advice and a helpline run by Tommy\u2019s midwives to provide support and reassurance to thousands of people across the UK who are planning for, or are worried about, pregnancy. This year\u2019s total stands at an incredible \u00a3518,303.<\/p>\n

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Tommy\u2019s is a national charity that works tirelessly to reduce the UK\u2019s rates of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth. One in four pregnancies ends in loss during pregnancy or birth. Tommy\u2019s believes that every baby lost is one too many.\u00a0 It funds pioneering medical research to discover the causes of baby loss and helps people and families at every stage of their pregnancy journeys, supporting them with expert information and care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nationwide baby and toddler groups have raised over half a million for research into the prevention of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth Multi award-winning preschool classes, Baby Sensory, and Toddler Sense, have collectively raised more than \u00a3518,000 for Tommy\u2019s, a pregnancy charity that funds vital research into miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth in a bid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[],"directory-category":[],"event_categories":[],"class_list":["post-15762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 22:37:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15765,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762\/revisions\/15765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15762"},{"taxonomy":"directory-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory-category?post=15762"},{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=15762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}