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Home-Starts across the UK celebrated National Family Week 2010
National Family Week, (31st May- 6th June), was a week long celebration of family life, a chance to spend quality and fun time with your family. For the second year running Home-Start, along with many other charities, has been involved with the celebrations.
Many Home-Starts up and down the country celebrated with their families and volunteers, holding picnics, face painting, and story telling sessions.
Below are just a few of the Home-Start events that took place;
In Lancashire, Home-Start Rossendale's family fun time event included a healthy living stall, face painting,(pictured top right), a family picnic and a trip to the local park to plant flowers in the shape and colour of the Home-Start logo. (Pictured middle right).
(The planting was sponsored by Rossendale Borough Council).
In Birmingham, Home-Start Northfield had a day full of fun events. Including a children's disco, hula hooping, games, bubble machines, followed by a healthy family picnic in their garden. One mum said: "It was great to spend the day together as a family. We truly enjoyed it." Another said: "I thought the day was a fantastic family day, everyone got involved and had a great time."
In Leicester, staff from Home-Start UK's central office celebrated by bringing their own children to a picnic and a game of cricket in the local park. A chance to sit in the sunshine and get away from the computers for an hour or so.
In Essex, Home-Start Epping Forest's families had a picnic, a story telling session, (highlighting the importance of healthy eating), a bouncy castle, and recycling stalls. Their guests included Ann Grigg the Chair of Epping Forest Council, the local education authority- to give information to families and members of Epping Forest's community police team.
In the North of Scotland, Home-Start Orkney's staff, families and teddy bears enjoyed a family picnic. (Pictured bottom right). Erika Copland, Home-Start Coordinator said: “It was lovely to see the parents and children enjoying the time together – sometimes you can get so caught up in every day life that you forget how much joy the simple pleasures of going with your children to the play park, or having a quick and easy picnic can be. And, as an added bonus, the sun, which has been in short supply, came out too!”
See how other families celebrated National Family Week here
