Many congratulations to Sir Andrew McFarlane, Patron of the Hope Family Centre on the news of his new appointment. We are very grateful for the continued support he offers the staff and beneficiaries and congratulate on him his new role.

For more information on his new role, please take a look at the official announcement, on the link below

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/new-president-of-the-family-division-appointment-the-rt-hon-sir-andrew-mcfarlane/

Oscar’s café are currently running a competition to give you the chance to win “Afternoon tea for 2”. Should you be the lucky winner, you are able to choose and book a date that is convenient to you.

To enter all you need to do is visit Oscar’s café and purchase a numbered square for £1 and leave your contact details with us. Its that simple!

Visit and purchase your numbered square now, before you miss out.

 

 

Today (Thursday 17th May 2018) we held a fire evacuation drill. These essential drills are carried out to ensure all staff, volunteers, children from Early Years and members of the public who use the Centre are practised and prepared in evacuating the Centre in good time.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everybody onsite today for allowing the fire drill to run smoothly and successfully.  We evacuated the whole premises in 2.5 minutes which is a great time. We would also like to apologise to anyone who was inconvenienced and to the 12 Mums and young babies attending Bumps & Babies session today.  We had 40 children in our Early Years department all of whom behaved impeccably.  We thank you all for your cooperation.

Having regular drills can be quite disruptive to the site, which we do appreciate but they are so important. It allows us to time the evacuations, but it can also highlight any potential places where we need to improve, whether this be communication and signage, or advising our visitors more frequently of the fire evacuation procedure.

If anyone has any comments or suggestions regarding the drill today please contact the centre on 01885 488495 or email  info@hopefamilycentre.org