HOPE Centre for Children, Families and the Community are delighted to welcome Sarah Eardley as their new Chief Executive Officer. Sarah has worked for nearly 15 years in the Third Sector and for the last six years has specialised in women’s services at Asha Women’s Centre in Worcester. Her early career in publishing was followed by a period abroad in Spain for several years. Upon her return [Read more…]
Help Save Soft Play and Stay ‘n’ Play Groups
The HOPE Centre runs groups on weekday mornings, Monday to Thursday, for 0-5 year olds – Soft Play on Monday, Stay ‘n’ Play on Tuesday, See Hear and Touch on Wednesday and Bumps ‘n’ Babies on Thursday.
Unfortunately, the Monday and Tuesday groups aren’t getting enough families out to keep them running past mid-February 2016. [Read more…]
Baby Massage at HOPE
The HOPE Centre offers regular baby massage courses. Baby massage is known to have many benefits to babies:
- it supports and aids development
- helps to ease constipation and colic
- and is a fantastic tool to increase bonding and communication.
The course is open [Read more…]
The HOPE Family Centre Annual Report 2014-15
The HOPE Family Centre has published its Annual Report for 2014-15. Read about the year’s events at HOPE with:
- a report from our Chair of Trustees, Janet Pearce-Higgins
- a report from our Chief Executive Officer, Sheenagh Davis
- reports from Early Years Education, Adult Learning, Oscar’s Coffee House, the Supporting Families team and our Child Contact Centre
- statement of financial activities
- a thank you to our supporters, partners and funders.
We’re listening to you
HOPE questionnaire feedback
Earlier this summer HOPE asked our service users to give us feedback so that we could improve what we do. We had lots of comments and we’ve already made changes to make our services better. Have a look below at what we’ve done so far. [Read more…]