Welcome to Little Stars – The home of help for you and your family
Our vision at Little Stars is to ensure babies and children across Shropshire have access to the essentials they need at every stage of childhood.
Our mission is both simple and urgent: to provide practical support to families across Shropshire by ensuring no baby or child goes without the childhood essentials during the most vulnerable time of their life. We believe that every family, no matter how complex their situation, should be shown kindness and support at the time they need it most. We’re here to say: enough is enough.
Our values:
Passionate. We are passionate about the work we do and committed to our mission.
Collaborative. We come together as a team and as a community to work towards a common goal.
Ambitious. We are ambitious in our goals and relentless in our pursuit to support more families.
Supportive. We are supportive, providing quality service and a helping hand to those who need it most.
Compassionate. We are compassionate and dedicated to helping families with kindness and understanding.
Our impact since 2020
We are proud to have supported over 5000 children and parents since our founding, distributing tens of thousands of items including nappies, formula, cots, clothing, toys, and more. We’ve worked with over 120 referral partners and continue to expand our reach.
Direct beneficiaries supported across all our campaigns
Indirect beneficiaries, financial cost savings for the families
Our Little Stars team supports vulnerable families all over Shropshire – ranging from baby packs to ensure you have your hospital essentials for when the time is right to pre-loved baby and children’s clothing to essential equipment and pre-loved school uniforms and new presents so every child has something to open at Christmas.
What people say about us:
When first introduced to Leanne a few years ago I was immediately inspired by what she was doing for little ones who most needed help, combined with her own young family to look after as well as a role managing others too.
Little Stars has blossomed into a wonderful force for good by simply doing everything it can to help those most in need. Any charity involving children tugs the heart strings and Little Stars is no different. Leanne is the difference though, we are so proud to help in any way we can. So many babies and young children have Little Stars to thank for being there and doing so much good. We can and should do more to support charities like Little Stars
– Neal Hooper, Managing Director, Aico
Leanne contacted Shrewsbury Homes for All to see if Little Stars Baby Bank could make a difference to some of the more vulnerable clients we support. We thought this was a fantastic sounding service and made referrals straight away! The Little Stars team have worked with our clients to provide essentials and much needed baby goods which without the referral they may have missed out on. This has all been done in a speedy, flexible, and professional manner with feedback provided.
It is so fantastic that we have this great facility to draw on and we are proud to be referral partners for such a vital service.
– Joanne Gough, Chief Officer, Shrewsbury Homes for All
Last year, during my year in office as the high sheriff of Shropshire, I was delighted to come across Little Stars Baby Bank.
The care, love and dignity that is shown in putting together all the pre-loved and new items in their extensive baby bundles is exceptional.
Leanne and her team work to provide a helping hand to families in need to make every new parent to feel special and give their child the best start in life. What a fantastic facility to have in the county.
– Dean Harris, Former High Sheriff of Shropshire
Little Stars has been an amazing life-saving service for our clients.
We have been overwhelmed with the beautiful items donated for our vulnerable clients and their babies.
– Rachel Greatorex, Family Nurse
Little Stars has good understanding and empathy for the difficult situations every day families are facing across Shropshire. A wonderful, non-judgemental service providing equipment, they rallied when a mum needed items quickly due to an imminent hospital admission following health concerns. Thank you Little Stars.
Little Stars have been amazing to families in the Shropshire area during this time of uncertainty. They have provided families with large pieces of essential baby equipment that families otherwise may have struggled to purchase. The equipment that Little Stars have provided include Cots, bedding, mobiles and bouncing chairs. All of which have been clean and in excellent condition. The families are so grateful for this help and support and it is nice to see them smile.
Thank you for all you do Little Stars.
Little Stars have been working together with our Early Help Family Drop in here in Oswestry. They have allowed families to access basic essentials for parents, children and babies. Little Stars have also helped our families by providing them with bigger items that are families cannot afford at this challenging time.
I have asked for assistance from the Little Stars Baby Bank on numerous occasions, in order to aid and support families in Shropshire who have limited resources and are in desperate need of support, and every time Leanne and the team have come through, providing hospital bags, clothing, hygiene items, cots and even a double pram!
Without the service the most at risk members of our community would be left without the most basic items needed to ensure their children are clothed and have appropriate items to ensure they are safe and can thrive. I cannot recommend the service enough and I hope they continue to grow as a service.
I wanted to send some feedback over about the baby bank and the support that I have found from this. I have referred in a few of my families for the baby and maternity packages and they have always been amazing and filled with so many things for both mum and baby. The parcels are packed with good quality and lovely items that my families have been very grateful for.
You provide a brilliant service to those that needs the most help and this is an invaluable service for the families we work with. The parcels are always done so quickly and prepared well and even with being able to transport them to our offices is amazing! I have told colleagues about the service and think that we need to continue to be positive about the work you all do so this can continue. It is having such a positive influence on the families we work with and we are very grateful for the support.
What a great service Little Stars is, it has been really good for me as I work with families and have been able to get essential equipment for them that they would have either gone without or just ended up in debt for, the cost of living crisis has been very difficult for so many and Little Stars had made a BIG difference to many. Thank you and I hope people continue to support a brilliant service.
The family’s I have requested donations for to date have been most grateful as they would not have been able to purchase nappies, toiletries, baby equipment such as mosses basket and stair gate for their babies.
The overall impact this could have had on the mental health of that family would have been detriment to their wellbeing and that of the child at that time.
The importance of organisations such as Little Stars means the difference between someone developing heightened anxiety and depression regarding their financial situation, to seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and being able to ensure their infant is provided for in the most financially challenging of times.
I wanted to say a massive thank you for the items you dropped off here. I delivered them yesterday afternoon and she was absolutely blown away with the quantity and variety of items. I really can’t thank you enough. She asked me to pass on her thanks to you. On a personal note, it was wonderful to be able to access these things for her, and given her emotional response, I feel you have really made a difference for her during a very difficult time.
– Shropshire Outreach Team
