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Nurture/Nursing rooms

We are really pleased to announce the opening of the new Nurture rooms on both the Streatham and St Luke's Campuses. These new rooms are a fabulus resource for our staff. 

We provide rooms for employees who are pregnant to rest and employees who are nursing to express on each of our three campuses. Under the Equality Act 2010 the University has a legal duty to provide suitable rest facilities for breastfeeding employees.

The rooms are equipped with a chair where you can express milk or feed, and a fridge which is solely for the storage of expressed milk.

These rooms also contain a bed. Pregnant and nursing employees can use these rooms to rest.  

If you have any issues with the rooms, please contact the Health and Safety Team and/or log maintenance issues with Campus Services

Please note that the rooms referred to as Nursing Rooms are also first aid rooms. The Nurture rooms are solely to be used for pregnant or nursing employees, students and visitors.

Nurture Room

The Nurture Room on the Streatham Campus is in the Forum building, room D.01.01 next to the Info Point on Level One of the Forum.

This room has been designed to allow pregnant and nursing staff and students a central location on campus to rest or express milk. The room is equipped with a chair, bed, fridge, sink, low lighting and task lighting.

Access is via a swipe card and you will need to request access to this room from the main reception in Northcote house or contacting them at universityreception@exeter.ac.uk. There is also a code available from Main Reception for visitors who need to use the facility.

Nursing Room

Old Library Building, the room is on the lower ground floor, room -1.02 (marked first aid room). You can access it from the back of the building, opposite the side of Hatherley (swipe card access) and go through the door marked the Education Incubator or from the main entrance to the Old library (ground floor), go through the front door and through the  double doors in front of you. Continue down the corridor on the left hand side of the building until you reach a set of stairs (on your left). Go down one flight and through the door marked The Education Incubator (on the right hand side), the room is the first door on the right.

See the Streatham Campus map

 

Nurture Room

The Nurture Room on the St Luke’s Campus is in H03, Holnicote Wing, which is round the corner from Cross Keys.

This room has been designed to allow pregnant and nursing staff and students a central location on campus to rest or express milk. The room is equipped with a chair, bed, fridge, sink, low lighting and task lighting.

Access is via a swipe card and you will need to request access to this room by visiting Main Reception in Northcote House (Streatham Campus) or contacting them at universityreception@exeter.ac.uk. There is also a code available from Main Reception for visitors who need to use the facility.

See the St Luke's Campus map

Sports Centre. See the Cornwall Campus map

We are seeking to develop and improve provision at the Penryn Campus and are asking for feedback from colleagues to help inform this. Please let us know if you would like to share your views or experiences of expressing on the Penryn campus, or if you have any suggestions for improvement. Please contact Rae Preston in the first instance.