Judy Bailey, one of Brainwave’s founding members, a current Trustee, Committe Member & Presenter is  featured in The Australian Women’s Weekly March 2008 issue.

The article is entitled “Judy Bailey, Mum’s the Word”.  AWW’s Karen Burge tells why the well-loved newsreader has become a poster girl for positive parenting.

Here are some quotes and passages from the article:

Stepping away from television has not so much meant “retirement” as a chance to move ahead with the work that drives her - a passion to ensure all New Zealand children start life with “someone who is madly in love with them”.

Jude is intensely involved with the Brainwave Trust which raise public awareness about how a child’s experiences in the first three years of life affect their brain development and future.” (more…)

The following comes from an article written in Puke Ariki - Taranaki stories - in 2006 about Robin Fancourt, the founder of The Brainwave Trust.  Sadly, Robin’s health has deteriorated this year and she is now residing in a New Plymouth private hospital.

Brainwave still has a strong & committed group continuing Robin’s wonderful work.  In Robin’s own words quoted from this article:  “Yes, Brainwave is in good hands. We have some wonderful, wonderful people on the kids’ side, child-orientated people. We struggled for quite a long while, trying to set it up, but now it’s really strong.”

Leading Women - Brainwave - Robin Fancourt
by Rhonda Bartle
It’s summer. High on a grassy plateau overlooking the city, a rabbit hops around the edges of a well-groomed lawn next to a prized stone carving of a lizard hugging a rock.

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Brainwave is very fortunate to have Graeme McCormick as an advocate for our findings and work.  He spoke this month to the Remuera Rotary Club about his aim for New Zealand’s children.  

Below is an extract taken from the March 2007

Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Remuera Inc District 9920

New Zealand, Vol 27 No 29.

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The file below was published in the East & Bays Courier, June 28, 2006.

Brainwave Courier Article06