To celebrate the joy of baby banks

Some are deluded enough to think that this is a problem:

About 400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11% on previous year

This is, of course, a glory of our society. Babbies and their mothers are supported. This is achieved entirely by the efforts of society itself, the little platoons. There is no intervention by the Lanyard Class, no compulsory confiscation to pay for it all, just Britons geting together to aid Britons. How glorious it is etc.

As with Trussell Trust and food banks. The hungry are being fed, why wouldn’t we support that laudable aim and outcome? Indeed, why wouldn’t we laud that support being given?

Four hundred thousand children in the UK were supported by baby banks in 2025, an 11% increase from the year before, prompting warnings from charities that they “cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty on this scale” without government support.

New research from the Baby Bank Alliance, set up by Save the Children UK to represent and advocate for more than 400 baby banks across the country, found that an average of 1,096 children were being supported by each member every day, with some essential items soaring in demand.

Now, one would have to be a complete cynic to think of this demand in this manner. That the Baby Bank Alliance exists so that the Lanyards at Save the Children UK can get cushty numbers directing, organising, the flow of taxpayer money into crowding out the current voluntary option. A complete and total cynic - or as we like to describe ourselves, realists.

Baby banks, as with food banks, work. The correct response to this is to send ‘em the occasional £50 and leave well alone. Why mess with what works?

Tim Worstall