About Us

Little Angels  (Darwen) CIC is a Community Interest Company which promotes, supports and protects breastfeeding. It aims to make breastfeeding fashionable, whilst offering evidence based information and support in a friendly and approachable manner. It does this by offering peer support through employment of the local community.

Little Angels’ overall strategic vision is to become the leading independent and foremost breastfeeding support service within the United Kingdom, known and respected for its quality, professional support , commitment and for developing new and innovative services to improve breastfeeding retention rates within the United Kingdom.

The service is funded through Service Level Agreements, contracts and grants.

Little Angels offers a variety of bespoke breastfeeding support services to each individual area with the aim of support breastfeeding within families and the wider community .

Little Angels  fully supports the policy of  exclusive breastfeeding for six months in  line with the Department of Health and the World Health Organisation and acts to protect breastfeeding by promoting the implementation
of the International Code of Marketing.

History of Little Angels

Founded in 2004 by 5 mothers who recognised a need for local breastfeeding support. Little Angels was formed as a private limited company by guarantee.  With an initial grant, Little Angels was commissioned to support the Sure Start programme with a primary purpose of supporting and promoting breastfeeding both antenatally and postnatally within the community of Blackburn with Darwen.

During 2007 Little Angels was developed into a Social Enterprise within the legal framework of a Community Interest Company to provide the most suitable method of developing Little Angels’ social strategic objectives. This includes recruiting local mothers to reflect the demographics of the communities we work within, ensuring true peer support which has proved to be the best method of support commissioned by Local Authority.

"support provided to over 20,000 mothers.."

Little Angels now employ over 100 staff and work with over 80 volunteers across the eight areas we currently work within. We have provided support to, in excess of 20,000 mothers and have facilitated over 1,300 community breastfeeding sessions. 

We now offer a full range of services to continue to support, promote and protect breastfeeding through the antenatal stage, in hospitals and throughout the wider community.