Lexington Newborns in Need

May has been a great month at Newborns in Need. We put together donations for HANDS program individuals and for other people in need. We also received many donations from people at First United Methodist, Andover. Thank you! We are still in need of some items- size 3 or 4 diapers, boys clothes sized 2 or 3T and as always wipes and baby bath wash.

Our June meeting is on its normal date! Wednesday June 6th at 7 pm at 300 Richardson Place! Please bring any large storage containers- if you have any you are not using! We will be doing more organizing of donations.

May marks our one year anniversary as a chapter! We want to thank all of our volunteers for helping us this past year! So our July meeting will be having a thank you bbq. The meeting falls of July 4th so we will be moving it to Saturday July 14th at 5 pm. Please bring your families!

If you know any families or organizations in need please email me at lexington@newbornsinneed.com

Thanks!

This has been yet another busy month for Newborns in Need. I went to Church on Sunday to find the drop off place filled with items for Newborns in Need. We are so thankful for all of the donations and are excited to donate them out to families in need.

Some of the places we’ve donated to recently have been: The Christian Appalachian Project- to help storm victims, Catholic Charities in Louisville and the University of Kentucky NICU.  If you know of any charities or individuals that could use our help email me at lexington@newbornsinneed.org

This month we are donating to individuals at the Harrison County Baby Shower. We will be putting bags together for this event an our meeting this Wednesday at 7 p.m. at our house- 300 Richardson Place. Please come and help us get some donations together! The Baby Shower is on April 24th at 4:30 if anyone wants to come with me. We’ll have a booth where we will be giving people information about Newborns in Need. Let me know if you would like to help!

Our May meeting won’t be too long after our April one! It is on its regular scheduled time- May 2nd at 7 p.m. at our house.  We will be putting together donations for individuals in the HANDS program at that meeting.

Just a reminder if you are interested in holding babies at the University of Kentucky NICU- all you have to do is go through the volunteer process and they will place you in the NICU! Let me know if you have any questions about that!

Thanks everyone for your support and have a great week!

It has been a wonderful holiday season for Newborns in Need in Lexington. We were able to donate many items to children in need.

We donated toys, hats and blankets to several children in the HANDS program.  We also gave diapers and blankets to the Embrace Church in Lexington. We contributed several large items to the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program. We also donated items to individual needy families.

We are so thankful for all of the support we have received, which enables us to do all of our giving! A special thanks to members at the First United Methodist Andover Church. They donated many items that will go to help many needy children!

We will not be having a January meeting this year, due to how hectic this time of year is! Also my husband and I just had a baby- which makes this an extra busy time of year for us! Our next meeting will be February 1st at 7:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Andover.

Thank you everyone and have a happy new year!

Our December meeting is just around the corner! We will be having it on Thursday December 1st instead of December 7th. It will be at our house, 300 Richardson Place in Lexington. It will be a special meeting where we put together some presents and donations. They will be going to needy children in the Lexington area! The meeting will start at 7:oo- and it we would love for you to come!

We have done some wonderful donation drop-offs lately. We donated some large items to the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program. We also will be doing a drop off of diapers and blankets to Embrace Church and items to The Ronald McDonald House.  In addition we continue to do drop-offs at the University of Kentucky NICU.  The donations we are putting together on December 1st are going to children in the HANDS program in Lexington.

Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who continue to help us! This time of year makes us so thankful that we are able to help children in need. Looking forward to Thursday!

Many families who have babies in the NICU use the services of the Ronald McDonald House in Lexington. We thought it would be a great organization for us to help.

We are collecting items that we will donate to the Ronald McDonald House at our next meeting, which is on Wednesday November 2nd at 7:00 pm at First United Methodist Andover in Lexington.

The Ronald McDonald House in Lexington has a wishlist which we will be donating off of.  You can click on the wishlist link and pick an item or two to donate and bring to the meeting. Some of the items include a large box of laundry detergent, toilet tissue, D or AA batteries, Kaboom cleaner, Disinfectant wipes, Bottled water, dish soap or gift cards to office supply stores.

These items will help this wonderful organization!

We are making fleece blankets at our meeting on November 2nd. We are providing the fabric. Please bring fabric scissors. We hope to see you there!

We have been busy at Lexington Newborns in Need and are so thankful! First United Methodist Women’s Circle donated so many wonderful things that will help lots of babies and children. It was so generous of them! We have gotten all 206 items that were donated organized and they are ready to be donated out!

We had a great meeting on October 5th,  where we put together halloween treat bags for the Domestic Violence Program and baby toiletry bags for the University of Kentucky NICU. We will be dropping those off at the respective places next week. Thanks to all of the volunteers who helped put these bags together!

In the upcoming meetings we will be making fleece blankets and then putting donation bags together for the holidays.  An upcoming note is that our December meeting will be held on Thursday December 1st at 7:00 p.m. instead of on December 7th. It will also be our our house, 300 Richardson Place in Lexington instead of at the church. Please email me will any questions at lexington@newbornsinneed.org

It is has been a busy time for Newborns in Need in Lexington. We have been dispersing the many donations we received through the baby item drive. We have been able to donate to individual needy families, which has been very rewarding. All of the families we have donated to have children under 2 years old and we hope we can continue to help them in the future! If you know of any individual families who Newborns in Need could help please contact me at lexington@newbornsinneed.org

We also dropped off some preemie diapers and clothes at the University of Kentucky NICU. We are currently communicating with them to get our volunteers in the NICU holding babies! We will keep you posted when we hear more from them about this opportunity.

We currently need donations of any kind. In particular larger sized diapers, formula and bottles are in need.

We are auctioning off a cute gift set! It includes a bib, burb cloth and bloomers that can be personalized and a pacifier clip. The estimated value of the set is 45 dollars. Email me at lexington@newbornsinneed.org if you’re interested!

The adorable set!

Thank you everyone for your support!

The baby item drive was a huge hit! We got so many wonderful items- 745 to be exact! We got diapers, blankets and tons of gently used clothes. We were overwhelmed with the success of the drive and are very thankful for the people who donated. We hope to make this a yearly event.

We received a lot of newborn and baby items, but could use items for older kids- sizes 12 months to 3T. Also we could use other sized diapers besides just newborn, especially sizes 3 and bigger. Just a heads up if you plan on donating!

In the near future we hope to have a bake sale, email me at lexington@newbornsinneed.org if you are interested in helping.  We also have lots of projects planned for meetings so make sure to join us! We meet the first Wednesday of everything month at 7 at First United Methodist Andover.  This month we will be making thank you cards and getting diapers ready to donate.

Thank you everyone for your support and we hope to see you at the meeting next week!

BABY ITEM DRIVE

Lexington Newborns In Need will have its first event on August 19th and 20th. We will be having a baby item drive at First United Methodist Church- Andover (4131 Todds Road in Lexington).

We will be accepting clothes up 5T, diapers, formula, blankets and small toys.  Come support babies in Lexington!

If you would like to volunteer or for more information contact Abby Bernd at lexington@newbornsinneed.org

FIRST DONATION DROP OFF! 

We dropped off our first donations at One Parent Scholar House on Friday.  They are a wonderful place where one parent families can benefit from education and housing.  Thanks to generous people we were able to give them lots of diapers and clothes! We are excited for the baby item drive so we can collect lots more items!

Also we have our next Newborns In Need meeting on Wednesday August 3rd at 7:00!  Come and contribute to our great group!