1. To prevent and relieve the sickness and disability and preserve and protect the health of pregnant women and their children.

To date, the Mother & Child Foundation has funded studies on low birth weight, pre-maturity and adverse outcomes in pregnancy. The principle target has been to understand the cause and prevent disorders of brain development whichsentence a child to a life time of disability, learning difficulties and behavioural pathology.

2. To advance the education of health professionals, the nursing profession and the general public, and particularly the parents of such children concerning low birth weight, its causes, and effects.

The Foundation established the Mother & Baby Clinic in the East-end of London in 1994 with a generous donation from the late Dr Ann Gibson, Freeman of the City of London. It played an important role in defining the conditions associated with low birthweight and premature birth. It acted as a centre for the conduct of a randomised clinical trial which resulted in a better than 2 fold reduction in small for gestational age births. The Clinic is presently occupied by the Albion Kids Show it works with the children and parents together. The Foundation has organised several international conferences and joint-cooperative workshops. One of our trustees consulted for WHO and FAO on matters related to maternal nutrition and health, brain development and function.

3. To promote or assist in the promotion of research, prevention, alleviation and management of such ill health and disability and to publish the useful results of such research.

From our research we have identified maternal nutrition and health even before pregnancy, as a key determinant of the health and development of the child. Current research projects funded by the Mother & Child Foundation focus on maternal nutrition and health with the aim of enhancing maternal health, nutrition and happiness and at the same time arresting and reversing the present climb in mental ill-health amongst children. Mental ill-health has now overtaken all other burdens of ill-health at a cost in the UK of greater than heart disease and cancer combined. The Foundation is managed by a Board of Trustees all of whom have experience in the field, It does not have its own premises. The work is voluntary – there is no paid staff. We have 12 voluntary supporters.

Office: c/o 36 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7SX.
Accountants: audit by George Dub & Co.,
7 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London Nw5 2RZ
Contact michael.crawford@imperial.ac.uk +447725250541

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