At our newest choir singbracknell – The Bracknell Community Choir we didn’t have to look too far afield to find a charity with close ties to the local community. BIBS (Babies in Buscot Support) was an easy choice when we were deciding where we should direct our fund raising and help in raising awareness.

BIBS is a registered charity whose work is two-fold:

• to support the work of Buscot Ward – the Special Care Baby Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital – by raising much-needed funds for new technology and equipment
• to support to the parents of those babies requiring special care at Buscot through a difficult and even harrowing time

Each year, over 300 of the babies born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital require the special care offered by Buscot Ward. The reasons for this are many and varied – a premature birth or ill health in the baby or mother during pregnancy, for example.
All our volunteers are parents who themselves have had babies on Buscot ward and have gone through similar feelings. Most of those parents feel that the time spent on Buscot ward has changed them in some small way and would like others to benefit from the experience.

BIBS collects and raises funds for the Special Care Baby Unit at Buscot not only to provide medical equipment and to support other investments, but also for other projects on the ward which would likely not get capital funding. Such projects include refurbishing the “quiet room”m the “family room” and the “flats”, all of which help to make a parents’ stay more comfortable.

Here at singbracknell – The Bracknell Community Choir we look forward to forming a great relationship with the team over at BIBS (Babies in Buscot Support) !