We have been so blessed this year with donations from FIND of Christmas hampers filled with food and gifts, brand new toys from the Salvation Army and even the parents weren’t forgotten with Sainsburys donated some adult gifts. Thank you all.
We had a lovely team night in together last night. We ate, chatted and shared stories together as well as organising all the Christmas parcels to deliver to our families. Happy Christmas one and all!
We had a fabulous time at The Woolpack pub with our first Family First quiz held at the venue. We raised £330 for the charity and very much hope to be there again next year so the winning team can defend their title!! Thanks to Will and the pub staff and Ian the quizmaster.
We are delighted to be working with Holy Trinity Church in Ipswich to be able to offer the When Dreams Change course in November. This four week course aims to enable parents and carers to reflect on their experience of having a child or young person with additional needs, and to become more of the […]
This years Summer Family Fun day is being held at St Augustine’s church hub. We thought we would try a new venue to open up the event to new families. Wherever you are you are welcome to come along and join us. Games and activities as well as drinks and cakes will all be provided […]
Colchester Road Baptist Church kindly invited us to be part of their Pentecost Festival alongside with a variety of local charities and organisations sharing what they do with the local community. There was a host of exciting games and activities to have a go on, some lovely catering vans (it would have been rude not […]
Six organisations from across Suffolk came together to celebrate their volunteers and all the hard work they do. A whole range of charities were involved: Anglia Care Trust, Ipswich Museums, National Trust, Suffolk Archives and Suffolk Family Carers and, between us all, our volunteers racked up an incredible 67,900 hours of their time. WOW!!! It […]
At Family First we are committed to ensuring that we provide the best support and services to our families. An important part of this is undertaking regular evaluations of our work. I am delighted to share the following highlights from the year Mar 23 – Feb 24: We saw 44 referrals into the service (up […]
Service Lead Sarah Stapleton visited our friends at St Augustine’s to, once again, talk about Family First. As well as sharing our latest news and success stories, we also talked about our exciting Summer event. St Augustine’s have very kindly offered to support us in running this year’s Family Fun event in August. Sarah was […]
Our third fundraising quiz run by Chris at TV, Film and Music quizzes is booked for Sunday 2nd Feb 6.30pm at The Three Wise Monkeys Ipswich. Booking is required via the pub’s website: https://threewisemonkeysipswich.com/events Entry is £3 per person (teams of up to 6) payable in cash and this is donated to the charity. This […]