Baby Week Peterborough
About us
This is more than a celebration; it’s a vibrant shared mission, Baby Week 2025 will bring together local organisations, services, and communities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to shine a spotlight on the importance of the very earliest years when a child’s brain grows faster than at any other point. A baby’s experiences and interactions during these early years shape how they develop, learn, feel and connect with others for the rest of their lives. Together, we want to share key health promotion messages, help parents understand the importance of their baby’s first relationships, and highlight the fantastic local services, resources, and initiatives available to support families on their parenting journey during this critical time.
New Research and early years best practice show that simple daily activities like dancing, singing, playing and reading can have significant developmental benefits- supporting language, social and emotional skills, physical coordination and lifelong love of learning.
For our closing event we will be holding a county wide baby rave both virtual and within settings, which will be a short and joyful celebration of early childhood development through music and, movement, singing and play. If you would like to be involved in our Baby Rave by hosting an event or virtually please get in touch.
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Peterborough Events
Where is Baby Week?
Many regions have just joined the Baby Week National Partnership? Get in touch to join us for the 2024 celebrations!
Leeds
Baby Week was born in Leeds in 2016 promoting the best start in life, bringing sectors together and celebrating babies! As a child friendly city, Leeds has a vision to make it the best city to grow up in.
Bradford
An opportunity to highlight what’s on offer in Bradford for expectant families and families with babies and toddlers, develop best practice, give families the opportunity to celebrate babies at some seriously fun-packed events.
Calderdale
In 2023, Calderdale will be celebrating its first ever Baby Week, with the theme of ‘play’ showcasing activities and support available for parents and their babies across the borough.
Cheshire & Merseyside
Began here in 2019, Baby Week brings together cross-sector organisations, families and caregivers to promote the importance of women’s health and giving all our babies the best possible start in life.
Redcar & Cleveland
Baby Week was celebrated in 2023 in Redcar & Cleveland where our local Family Hubs are launched a new best start in life offer for our expectant parents, parents and carers, professionals, and the public.
Newcastle
We’re really excited as 2023 will be the first year Newcastle will be celebrating and participating in Baby Week.
Torbay
We want to ensure that every child has the best start in life. That’s why we’ve joined the National Baby Week Partnership to highlight the importance of the first 1001 days of a baby’s life.
York
Jointly organised initiative working with Raise York (York’s Family Hub Network) and Health Services! We are excited to put together a programme filled with events that show the amazing range of services available to young children and their families in and around our city.
Durham
We want all children in County Durham to have the best start for life and are excited to be celebrating Baby Week for the first time in 2024.
Hull
On behalf of the Early Help Partnership in Hull, we are excited to be joining in with Baby Week for the first time in 2024. We are proud to work together with our parents/carers and committed team and Partners to ensure all children get the best start in life.
Buckinghamshire
In 2025, we are delighted to be celebrating Baby Week once again in Bucks where we'll be bringing together partners to promote how we work together to give children the best start in life.
Sunderland
Lead by Sunderland Family hubs, we are excited to bring Baby Week here. We want to ensure that every child in Sunderland has the best start in life through shining a spotlight on the first 1001 critical days with our partners, families and professionals.
Interested?
Want to be the next city to host baby week?
The success in 2023 meant that over 1000 events were advertised between 14 – 20 November! We’re on our journey to make this a national week for every city and region to be a part of.