HOPE for Children and their Families
For children, families and the community
We would like to say a huge thanks to our loyal Friends of Hope members for the purchase of the new car park lights.
Friends of Hope raises funds through an annual membership schemes which entitles you to discount in our community café.
The new bollards mean the car park will be better lit when the light fades and this will help everyone using the centre.
If you would like to help support us please click here to join.
The thoughts and views of those who use our Centre matter to us. To make sure our services are what you want we ask for feedback from everyone after they use the centre and twice a year for a week we also ask visitors to complete a Snapshot survey. In our most recent survey in April, 100% of you would recommend us to friends and family and of 98% respondents were either satisfied or very satisfied with the service they had received. We are very grateful to everyone for taking the time to support us. We are here to support our local community including professionals and other organisations that use the facilities. Below we have compiled some of the comments and views of those who have taken time to give us feedback. Thank you to everyone for their participation.
This year 3 staff received nominations for awards in the ISO QSL Good Egg awards
Anna Beddows in the Supporting Egg category –
Anna has been our ISO quality manager since we acquired accreditation and the standard. Her diligence in ensuring a consistency of standards across the charity is key in our professionalism and she makes sure everyone adheres to the high standards she has set.”
Netti Evans in the Quality Egg category –
“This year Netti has made massive improvements in the running of our community café… She works tirelessly and selflessly to get to know her customers and makes sure everyone gets fab service.”
Blaise White in the Green Egg category –
“This year Blaise has introduced several new schemes in the finance department.
He is determined to reduce our paper output by reducing the amount of paper systems and is working on migrating our customer invoice system to an electronic one.”
Congrats to all 3 for their nominations and to Blaise for winning the Green Egg Award.
Both staff and children joined in with the World Book Day celebrations and dressed up as their favourite story character. Our Ladybird and Caterpillar room shared their favourite stories throughout the day and Preschool had the pleasure of sharing a story with Maggie our Early Years volunteer, who kindly visits every week.
Every child took home a World Book Day token, which will allow them to go and purchase a new book at home.
Welcome to the Spring Term 2019.
We have a number of forthcoming events taking place and wanted to share these with you.
World Book Day:
World Book Day will be taking place on Wednesday 6th March. As always, we will be encouraging children (and staff!) to dress up as their favourite book character and to make a £1 donation please. Oscar’s café will also have an offer to receive a free hot drink when you purchase a child’s lunchbox.
Healthy eating displays:
We are currently promoting healthy eating across the centre including in Early Years, please take the time to have a look at our display outside the classrooms. We are focusing on making the right choices of healthy foods, the importance of exercise, dentistry and looking after our teeth and baby weaning.
Preschool’s visits to Whitegates:
Our visits to Whitegates nursing home will recommence on Tuesday 12th March and will include sessions with Pedro the music man and also meeting Dennis again who is now 103!
Parent Partnership:
We’re looking at the importance of reading books to children and this will be a continuous project throughout this term. Please can we ask for your contributions by emailing some photos of you reading to your children for us to use on our display. Please email these to: rachel.cross@hopefamilycentre.org.
We are very excited to share with you our first nearly new sale! This will be held on Saturday 2nd March 2019, 10am until 12pm. Tables are available for a small charge of £5 and the donation of a raffle prize. Oscar’s café will be selling some delicious refreshments including coffee, cakes and breakfast baps.
If you would like to book a table please contact reception on 01885488495 or info@hopefamilycentre.org.
This event has been organised in partnership with one of our Early Years parents Steph King and we can’t wait to see you all there!
Fundraising BINGO!
We will be holding a bingo on Friday 12th April at the Public Hall, Bromyard. Please pop the date in your diary and come and support a really fun evening! We would also be very grateful of any prize donations.
All fundraising events held by The HOPE Centre help the charity to raise money for local children and families, including the Early Years department.
Kind regards
Rachel Cross and Charlotte Hodges– Early Years Management
