The Hope Centre News

A huge THANK YOU from all at the Hope Centre

May 17, 2018 By Aaron Willoughby

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

GDPR Compliance

May 14, 2018 By Sarah Eardley

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Animal Encounters come to the Hope Family Centre

May 14, 2018 By Aaron Willoughby

Animal Encounters are here again!
Tuesday 29th May 10:30am
Meet a range of unusual creatures – snakes, reptiles, insects, birds and mammals. Handle them and learn how they live.
Book and pay at the HOPE Centre to secure your place.

Marathon fundraising

April 13, 2018 By Sarah Eardley

On May 13th, Sage Pearce-Higgins is running the Hereford Marathon in aid of Hope for Children & their Families and all the children who attend here and we would like to ask for your support.

The funds raised will help to improve some of the resources the children enjoy at the centre and also help towards the redesign of the outside facilities in our Early Years garden areas. These are all used weekly by families and children from all over the county who attend the centre. Last year we successfully launched the only Soft Play café in Bromyard last year and have had lots of success and support from the local community who use this on a daily basis. Here is the link to our Just Giving page https://www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/hopefamily-centre/sagerunningforhope

Winner!

April 11, 2018 By Sarah Eardley

Congratulations to John who won the jar of sweets at our Easter fundraiser! Thanks to everyone else who had a guess and helped us fundraise! We raised over £250 and would like to thank everyone who came along. We’d also like to thank Kelly for bringing along the lambs and all the helpers on the day! We all had great fun! Watch this space for our summer timetable of events with more opportunities to help us fundraise and join the team at Hope having family fun.