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This year's Baby Week theme is 'Healthy Parent, Healthy Baby'

Baby Week's founder Lucy Potter is pictured during a 2016 trip to Brazil, where she was invited to present what she had learned from Semana do Bebe and share Leeds's plans for the first Baby Week.

Baby Week run from November 14-20 in Leeds - the city where it first began ten years ago. Pictured: a young girl enjoying Baby Week activities in a previous year. Credit © Fiona Finchett

Baby Week run from November 14-20 in Leeds - the city where it first began ten years ago. Pictured: children and their parents enjoying Baby Week activities in previous years. Credit © Fiona Finchett

Baby Week run from November 14-20 in Leeds - the city where it first began ten years ago. Picture credit © Fiona Finchett

Baby Week run from November 14-20 in Leeds - the city where it first began ten years ago. Pictured: children enjoying Baby Week activities in previous years. Credit © Fiona Finchett

Team Doodle Chat at the Compassionate City Awards 2025.

Kirkstall-based ParkyPING!, a unique table tennis club for people with Parkinson’s disease, received the award for Community Sports Project of the Year at the Compassionate City Awards 2025. The awards celebrate the positive work people and organisations do to make a difference in their communities, with 2025's ceremony taking place on 6 November at Leeds Civic Hall. Pictured with (from left) Paul Money, chief officer for Safer Stronger Communities, Councillor James Lewis, leader of the council, and Councillor Mary Harland, executive member for communities, customer service and community safety.

Kirkstall-based ParkyPING!, a unique table tennis club for people with Parkinson’s disease, received the award for Community Sports Project of the Year at the Compassionate City Awards 2025. The awards celebrate the positive work people and organisations do to make a difference in their communities, with 2025's ceremony taking place on 6 November at Leeds Civic Hall.

Doodle Chat won Health and Wellbeing Project of the Year at the Compassionate City Awards. The initiative is a relaxed social group for doodling and chatting with all materials provided, created by local artist Ed Thompson (middle).

Sienna Silva-Farber, 10, has been elected as the new Children’s Mayor of Leeds for 2025-2026. Picture credit: Graham Fotherby

Sienna Silva-Farber, 10, has been elected as the new Children’s Mayor of Leeds for 2025-2026. Picture credit: Graham Fotherby