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🛒 Help to access food / 👶 New SEND nursery / 🗣️ Help communicating with your teen
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Issue 26 April 2024: Produced in partnership with NHS Dorset and Parent Carers Together
🛒 Are you facing difficult choices when it comes to food?
If so, you are not alone and support is available.

Our award-winning Access to Food Partnership is a community food network working together with a vision that everyone in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole can feed themselves and their family nutritious food.

There are many community projects which are helping residents, including:
  • Voucher scheme helping those hit hardest by food insecurity and social supermarkets
  • Waste Not Want Not in Poole to help those who are struggling to maintain a nutritious diet due to financial hardship
  • Our Access to Food Map shows where you can get help to get food for yourself and your family, and includes community fridges, food banks, pantries and social supermarkets across the BCP area.
If you want to find out more about food support services, visit our website or view the video below with Daisy Carr, BCP Council community food co-ordinator.
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Help to get food for yourself and your family
👶 Dingley's Promise opens a new SEND nursery
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We have been working closely with the charity Dingley’s Promise to provide a new nursery assessment centre to support children under five with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families.

Dingley’s Promise, based in West Howe, had its grand opening this week.

Alongside the specialist nursery, providing early years places, the centre will also give a wide range of additional support for families, including:
  • dedicated family support for centre children and those in the community
  • stay and play sessions for families to enjoy the resources and equipment with their children
  • playschemes throughout the holidays to provide respite for families, and engaging child-centred activities with the support of our specialist staff
  • a welcoming and inclusive environment, where every child is valued and celebrated.
The new centre aims to give children the best possible start in life by providing specialist support tailored to each child to help with their onward journey into local settings.
Find out more about Dingley's Promise in Bournemouth
🙋‍♂️ Could you be a mentor for a young person leaving care?
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We're looking for volunteers to engage with young people transitioning from care, offering them inspiration, support, and guidance as positive role models. If you're interested in witnessing their journey toward independence and seeing them grow in confidence, we'd love to have you on board.

So, if you have some time and a passion to support our young people, click the link below to find out what's involved and register your interest with our partner, Goal 17.
Become a mentor for a young person leaving care
🚼 It's reusable nappy week!
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By choosing to use reusable nappies, parents and carers can reduce their carbon footprint making a positive impact on the environment and their budget.

Switch to reusables and you could save around £500 per baby. Disposable nappies contribute significantly to the waste and climate crisis in the UK - in the UK alone 3 billion disposable nappies are thrown away costing local authorities over £140 million per year for collection and disposal.

Ready to get started? Because the initial investment can be difficult, we have a Reusable Nappy Incentive Scheme - find out more below.
Get help to buy reusable nappies
🗣️ Need help communicating with your teenager?
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Face 2 Face is a free online course to help improve communication and understanding between you and your teenage child.

There are four parts to this course that you and your teen attend together. Teens do not have to appear on camera or speak on camera, all exercises are done with cameras and mics off.

The course starts in May. For course details and dates see below.
Face 2 Face
🙋‍♀️ Volunteering opportunities at BCP Council
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Would you like to meet new people, learn something new, support your local community and have fun?

Come along to our next volunteer drop-in session:
📅 Monday 29 April 2024
⏰ 10am to 1pm
 📍  Christchurch Library, 29 High Street, Christchurch BH23 1AW

If you are unable to attend but would like to find out more about all the exciting volunteering opportunities available see below.
Volunteering opportunities at BCP Council
📝 Skills and Transitions Fair for young people with SEND
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The Skills and Transitions Fair is an inclusive and interactive event for students in years 9 to 14 across Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and who do not attend a mainstream school or who hold an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) in a mainstream school.
  • explore post-16 education and training options
  • meet apprenticeship and supported internship providers
  • find out about further information from agencies offering advice
  • meet local and national employers.
The event will be held on Thursday 9 May at Merley House, Merley House Lane, Poole BH21 3AA. Although the event is running all day, parents and carers are invited to the twilight session taking place between 3.30pm and 5pm. 

Find out more and book below.
Skills and Transitions Fair
🎭 Impact Boscombe Children's Festival
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On Saturday 11 May, to mark National Children's Day, Impact Boscombe will be hosting a Children's Festival in Churchill Gardens, bringing together all of the fabulous people who work to support children and young people in Boscombe for a day of family fun with entertainment, activities and more! Featuring a live performance of 'Cinderella' brought to you by Treehouse Theatre. Find out more below.
Impact Boscombe Children's Festival
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Our SEND Local Offer provides information on services and activities for children and young people living in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole aged 0 to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities.
Our SEND Local Offer
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Issue 26 April 2024: Produced in partnership with NHS Dorset
🛒 Are you facing difficult choices when it comes to food?
If so, you are not alone and support is available.
Our award-winning Access to Food Partnership
is a community food network working together with a vision that everyone in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole can feed themselves and their family nutritious food.
There are many community projects which are helping residents, including:
* Voucher scheme
helping those hit hardest by food insecurity and social supermarkets
* Waste Not Want No
t in Poole to help those who are struggling to maintain a nutritious diet due to financial hardship
* Our Access to Food Map
shows where you can get help to get food for yourself and your family, and includes community fridges, food banks, pantries and social supermarkets across the BCP area.
If you want to find out more about food support services, visit our website or view the video below with Daisy Carr, BCP Council community food co-ordinator.
Help to get food for yourself and your family
👶 Dingley's Promise opens a new SEND nursery
We have been working closely with the charity Dingley’s Promise to provide a new nursery assessment centre to support children under five with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families.
Dingley’s Promise, based in West Howe, had its grand opening this week.
Alongside the specialist nursery, providing early years places, the centre will also give a wide range of additional support for families, including:
* dedicated family support for centre children and those in the community
* stay and play sessions for families to enjoy the resources and equipment with their children
* playschemes throughout the holidays to provide respite for families, and engaging child-centred activities with the support of our specialist staff
* a welcoming and inclusive environment, where every child is valued and celebrated.
The new centre aims to give children the best possible start in life by providing specialist support tailored to each child to help with their onward journey into local settings.
Find out more about Dingley's Promise in Bournemouth
🙋‍♂️ Could you be a mentor for a young person leaving care?
We're looking for volunteers to engage with young people transitioning from care, offering them inspiration, support, and guidance as positive role models. If you're interested in witnessing their journey toward independence and seeing them grow in confidence, we'd love to have you on board.
So, if you have some time and a passion to support our young people, click the link below to find out what's involved and register your interest with our partner, Goal 17.
Become a mentor for a young person leaving care
🚼 It's reusable nappy week!
By choosing to use reusable nappies, parents and carers can reduce their carbon footprint making a positive impact on the environment and their budget.
Switch to reusables and you could save around £500 per baby. Disposable nappies contribute significantly to the waste and climate crisis in the UK - in the UK alone 3 billion disposable nappies are thrown away costing local authorities over £140 million per year for collection and disposal.
Ready to get started? Because the initial investment can be difficult, we have a Reusable Nappy Incentive Scheme - find out more below.
Get help to buy reusable nappies
🗣️ Need help communicating with your teenager?
Face 2 Face is a free online course to help improve communication and understanding between you and your teenage child.
There are four parts to this course that you and your teen attend together. Teens do not have to appear on camera or speak on camera, all exercises are done with cameras and mics off.
The course starts in May. For course details and dates see below.
Face 2 Face
🙋‍♀️ Volunteering opportunities at BCP Council
Would you like to meet new people, learn something new, support your local community and have fun?
Come along to our next volunteer drop-in session:
📅 Monday 29 April 2024
⏰ 10am to 1pm
📍
Christchurch Library, 29 High Street, Christchurch BH23 1AW
If you are unable to attend but would like to find out more about all the exciting volunteering opportunities available see below.
Volunteering opportunities at BCP Council
📝 Skills and Transitions Fair for young people with SEND
The Skills and Transitions Fair is an inclusive and interactive event for students in years 9 to 14 across Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and who do not attend a mainstream school or who hold an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) in a mainstream school.
* explore post-16 education and training options
* meet apprenticeship and supported internship providers
* find out about further information from agencies offering advice
* meet local and national employers.
The event will be held on Thursday 9 May at Merley House, Merley House Lane, Poole BH21 3AA. Although the event is running all day, parents and carers are invited to the twilight session taking place between 3.30pm and 5pm.
Find out more and book below.
Skills and Transitions Fair
🎭 Impact Boscombe Children's Festival
On Saturday 11 May, to mark National Children's Day, Impact Boscombe
will be hosting a Children's Festival in Churchill Gardens, bringing together all of the fabulous people who work to support children and young people in Boscombe for a day of family fun with entertainment, activities and more! Featuring a live performance of 'Cinderella' brought to you by Treehouse Theatre. Find out more below.
Impact Boscombe Children's Festival
Our SEND Local Offer provides information on services and activities for children and young people living in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole aged 0 to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities.
Our SEND Local Offer
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