"Unite and Netmums to provide parenting support" - Were Mumsnet asked ?

biased hasn't got two ss has it? sorry.

Agree with Marina, mn is better off out of it. you want PARENTING advice from PARENTS, come here. You want nestle sponsored biassed the govt line, go to netmums.

And we all know that while there are some good hvs, many of them are shite, shockingly so.

lol at pitchforks, yes, let's have some on

wow that is like being marched off the premises!

We had a private online forum just for those running the sites and the password got changed the day after I posted something

ach, tbh if you miss them you should go and see them. i'm sure they'll all want it swept under the carpet and the ad is long gone now. don't let pride stop you from spending time with friends, if that's all it is.

oh! I just remember the furore and how grim it was all round

You always had me MP, just I changed my username as it had netmums name as part of it

yes ios I remember your defection well

it worked out well for us because we got you!

The coffee house had a huge Nescafe decaf or something banner on the top. The wording made it sound like netmums were endorsing them.

A very sad time, I miss my old ed friends a lot but can never go back as I posted things publicly that I shouldn't have.

are you sure it didn't change to The Nestle COffee Room or something? i thought it was more than a banner when i looked.

yes i remember, that was when we purloined you, island.

i don't really understand why nestle were the only people prepared to advertise with them at the time, though.

Re: Nestle

I fell out with them big time over this, but it was not sponsorship, just an advertising banner (as if that makes it any better) but it is now over I think it lasted for 7 months. At the time I was told it was take the money or stop running, costs were too high and other sources of incomehad dried up.

i think MN are well out of it, anyone i know who's got a govt grant for anything now spends as much time re-applying every year than doing their actual job. and the hoops they have to jump through, god it's grim.
good luck to Netmums, they seem a very differently organised/targeted site from here, the users also (unless i'm very much mistaken) take advice from authority etc well so HVs will fit in rather better there than here. and they're sponsored by Nestle... erk.

Ahhh I didn't realise they were a NPO, blimey

Netmums are a non profit organisation. It used to be run entirely by volunteers, but now I beleive they give site editors and the people who run the sites minimum wage.

I used to be an editor, but left as at the time editors were not paid and I could not afford not to go back to work, running the site took a lot of time.

I could not have survived without netmums, Mumsnet is great, but when I had my children what I needed was something local. I don't agree with all of how the organisation has changed but the people who first set up the site and who run it like Sally amd Siobhan are genuine people whos main aim is to help others not go therough the lonliness and isolation that they (and I) did.

lol @ the very idea of Health Visitors coming on

CAn you imagine the furore if Justine popped up adn said, 'By the way we now have a govt grant, and incidently we now have to od this, this and this'.

Dear god it would last years.

There was enough uproar when profile apges were introduced.

BAh at that press release - 'trailblazing' how exactly? They haven't done anything (apart from this grant) that noone else has done.

But still, I'm glad it wasn't MN.

It's the kind of thing that suits netmums, but wouldn't suit here.

Oooh I've just read this.

I wonder how they got a grant for such a core operating cost when they are surely a profit-making organisation? Or do they not make a profit ... ? Hmmm interesting eh?

I've been on netmums, there is a poster who knows tons about VBAC's and had a VBA3C herelf who gave me a lot of good info.
I saw her here once but she got pounced on for having a differing opinion and haven't seen her post since.

I've not got anything against NetMums but it's run and organised differently to us.
Would we honestly want Mn to be Government-sponsored...
I think, as others have said, we are far better placed as the antithesis

definitely not a bad thing

independence is priceless, absolutely priceless

Does anyone ever go over there (Netmums), lurk, corral a posse and then pounce? Like at school, when a neighbouring school were rumoured to be turning up with baseball bats and knives and all, on Friday? Mind you, they never did turn up, did they?

Maybe they're here, lurking now.

To the shed!

lol VS

Totally agree that it's a nice, worthy idea, and it might help some people, but I'm glad too that it's not on MN.