This month we’d like to welcome Natasha Brining and Aaron Willoughby to our Admin team.  Natasha brings her organisational, administrative skills from her previous role as an events organiser to the team and we look forward to hopefully using some of them for events of our own! Aaron joins us from a role as Data administrator and Adult Skills tutor with Learning Box in Hereford and we hope to be using his skill and experience with our social media and monitoring.  They will work with Anna Beddows, who manages the team, and Mandy Williams who have been with Hope for a combination of over 20 years.  A great combination!

We are pleased to announce that Herefordshire Council have awarded us a new contract to deliver Children’s Centre services for the Bromyard reach area from October 1 2018 until March 2021.  We have been delivering this service since 2012 and are delighted to carry on this important work in Bromyard; our knowledge and understanding of the needs of the local community and our strong professional partnerships are key to ensuring the strength and quality of our work and we would like to thank the families and children, our professional partners and our stakeholders for all their support.

The new contract forms part of a wider strategy in line with statutory guidance that can be viewed here. More information can also be found on the local authority’s website page on Children’s Centres in the county.

The delivery of the Children’s Centre contract is one of the many services at Hope that complements other services available to the public at the Centre; these include our Contact Centre provision, our onsite Early Years nursery and preschool, our Community café, Oscar’s and our Facilities and venue hire. 

If you would like any other information about the work we do here or would like to discuss this please contact Sarah Eardley, CEO.

 

 

We are proud of the children at Hope who have painted and made poppies for the pageant on Saturday 15th September …. “Everyone remembered”

Thanks also to Jan Brodie-Murphy and the team for doing such a sterling job and representing the community so well. Such a fantastic effort and great results!

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Here is the latest Early Years newsletter containing information and updates on parties, term dates and other interesting things….

On November 29th we will be holding our Christmas Fayre.  We are delighted that the Mayor and Mayoress of Bromyard will be with us this year to open the event and hope that lots of friends and families will be there too.  Refreshments will be provided by Oscar’s café and maybe even some mulled wine to get us in the festive mood! It’s a lovely opportunity to get in some gifts for Christmas or treat yourself or a friend or relative and we look forward to welcoming you all…. and in the meantime check out our What’s on calendar at the centre for Halloween activities and spooky fun!

All proceeds go to our charity and if you would like to support us in other ways you might be interested in becoming a Friend of Hope; please click here for more information.