Support free formula provision through local pharmacies

Sign our petition to implement a free first infant formula provision service via local pharmacies for families who need it. This includes families living in poverty, women living with HIV and families with No Recourse to Public Funds. No baby should go without food.

Campaign for Local Authority Emergency Formula Access pathways

Contact your MP and urge them to push for the development of a Local Authority Emergency Formula Provision pathway. You could include a link to our review that showed there is no consistent Local Authority formula provision pathway in Scotland. Where local authorities who do have a formula provision pathway, they are often not timely, not freely available and largely rely on food banks for formula provision.

Let you local food or baby bank know that formula provision is okay

Send your local food or baby bank a copy of our Guidelines for Provision of Infant Formula which set out how first infant milk can be provided safely, and with dignity.

Endorse our Guidelines

Sign here to support our guidelines on the safe and dignified provision of first infant formula for formula fed babies living in food poverty. We have worked with key stakeholders, including food and baby bank service users, staff and volunteers, health care providers and organisations that support women and babies to develop clear, safe guidelines to ensure routes of access to formula are maximised.

Donate to your local food or baby bank

Support your local foodbank or baby bank by donating essential baby items including nappies, wipes, breast pads, nipple cream, baby toiletries, baby food and infant formula. If donating infant formula make sure to follow our guidelines and choose stage 1 infant formula (aka first infant milk); this type usually has a big number 1 on the box. Any brand of stage 1 formula is acceptable.

Support the reinstatement of partnerships with Health Visitors

Join us in asking NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to reinstate the Health Visitor referral service to Glasgow North Baby Foodbank, and to commit to supporting their Health Visitors to refer families in need to all foodbanks - and similar services - on the basis of need, including those that provide infant formula.

Add Your Voice

Speak up in support of the acceptance and provision of infant formula by foodbanks, and other organisations that help families in need. Share our campaign details, social media posts and data highlighting that #FormulaIsFood in the quest to end #InfantFeedingInequality, and to ensure that everyone can access food in times of need, including formula fed babies