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.

 

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 6^th 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 12^th 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 2^nd 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 12^th 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

 

It’s been a busy start to the year. First, we’d like to thank everyone for their support and being part of the Hope Community. Here we’re going to give you a sneak peek ahead to some of the things going on. We have already welcomed lots of new children to the centre in our Early Years and Contact Centre and are happy to say that everyone is settling in very well. 

We have our regular groups taking place run by the Children’s Centre team in Bromyard and Job Club is also back on the schedule. We are going to reintroduce the ICT SOS again so keep an eye out for the dates. Oscar’s Café has had a busy start to the year and our regular Top Up Tuesday is as popular as ever. We’ve got several new events and promotions planned and our Usborne Book event this week was really well attended.

We have a full and busy calendar of events planned which you can find on our website in the What’s On section. There are lots to highlight but in particular I’d like to mention the Bingo Night at Bromyard Public Hall on April 12^th and the return of our Mother’s Day Raffle for a free Cream Tea.

Last year in the run up to Christmas we had to manage without a fully equipped Soft Play in Oscar’s Café due to our Early Years Nativity performances and the Christmas Fayre. Normal service has resumed and we’re glad to see families and children enjoying this facility that is unique to Bromyard. I am equally glad to say that the entire Café team is back together after a spate of illness. Thanks to Amy, Bonnie and Emma, our new bank staff, who helped us navigate the busy time with great enthusiasm.

This year we are planning several fundraisers and will invite you all to support us; details will appear on the website and on our social media platforms nearer the time. As a taster, our plans include a Mud run in the Autumn, a charity concert and in the summer and Netti, our café manager, will be reaching for the skies in her fundraising event. More on that later ….

If you haven’t been to the Centre before please come along and visit us. We have a lovely cafe on site that is open Monday – Friday until 3pm with access via lift for those who need it and on site parking. There are lots of lovely facilities and groups that might be of interest. We regularly update our Twitter feed and Facebook and website pages so you can keep up to date with all our offers and events.

Well, that’s all for now – we hope to see you soon!