Who are we?

	Director Marlene Scrivener - Marlene began her career as a nurse. She has worked with breastfeeding families for 10 years as a qualified antenatal teacher. She has also worked as a breastfeeding peer support worker in Ipswich. Marlene has successfully completed a Unicef accredited course in Breastfeeding Management. She is an independent breastfeeding advisor.
	Director Jacqui Miller - Jacqui has 10 years invaluable experience in the support of families gained by working in partnership with parents in Suffolk. She is qualified to Level 4 in the Early Years Foundation Stage, Care and Education of Children. She has been working with breastfeeding mothers for 3 years. Jacqui have successfully completed a Unicef accredited course in Breastfeeding Management. She is an independent breastfeeding advisor.
	Member and Chair Michelle Evans - Michelle was an NCT antenatal teacher for 12 years. She was a Board director of the NCT for 6 years, this role included chairing a range of committees. Michelle was Chair of the East Suffolk Maternity Services Liaison Committee for 5 years and a member of the Ipswich Hospital Infant Feeding Group. Michelle's voluntary work in maternity services has given her an understanding of the issues faced by parents in East Suffolk. She also has a part time job as Company Secretary for a Data Processing Company.
	Member Rachel Kitchen - After teaching in the secondary, further education and voluntary sectors I set up a charitable company limited y guarantee 'Red Balloon Learner Centre - Norwich'. The centre, part of the Red Balloon Learner Centre Group, still provides a full time educational and therapeutic placement for severly bullied secondar aged young people. I now work for Barnardo's, the nation's largest children's charity, as a Children Service's Manager for the East of England. I was an Arrival 'service user' when I had difficulties breastfeeding my son. My positive experience fo Marlene and Jacqui made it easy to accept their offer to become a member. I hope to contribute by sharing the learning from my experiences.
	Member Katherine Ahluwalia
	Member Alice Coyle - Alice practised as a midwife for almost 30 years, 20 of them in independent practice followed by work as a specialist breastfeeding midwife for a major London teaching hospital. Growing up hearing her mother's stories of breastfeedig her and her 5 siblings, she has always promoted breastfeeding as 'the norm' rather than the exception and worked hard to educate and enable women and their families, many of whom have no positive breastfeeding 'stories' of their own. She has many years experience assisting mothers with ill, and premature babies, to breastfeed. Alice believes that women should be supported in their choices of how to feed and care for their babies and that they should be provided with unbiased, practical and well researched information.