Croydon Family Power....

Croydon Family Power is a BIG Lottery funded 3 year programme called Improving Futures and has four key delivery elements outlined below.  Read more

Roots of Empathy....

ROE is an evidence-based Program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression among school children while raising social and emotional competence and increasing empathy.  We are now recruiting for the 2nd cohort of ROE Instructors who will be trained in October and start to deliver the programme in five more schools this year. If you are interested in becoming a ROE Instructor or if  would like your school to deliver the ROE programme, please email Aisha Bryant.   Read more

Parent Pod Course...

Gingerbread Corner are delivering parent pod courses and are currently recruiting parents.  If you are interested email Sue Moses.  Read more

Incredible Years...

Croydon Family Power will be delivering ‘Incredible Years’ Parenting course, basic School-Age (6-10 years) to 50 parents over the 3 years. The course will be delivered to a min of 10 parents each session over 12 sessions and so provides 60 sessions in total.  The next courses starts May 2013, email Aisha Bryant for details.  Read more

Family Navigators...

Homestart Croydon, Off The Record, Croydon Mencap, Disability Croydon, Mind in Croydon and Croydon Drop-In has recruited 6 part-time Family Navigators.  Read more

The ABCD approach views the residents of an area as the community’s 'assets', all of whom have individual 'gifts' that they can bring to their community and its development.  Croydon Voluntary Action with help from Gingerbread Corner will grow a pool of 60 volunteer Family Connectors in 3 defined neighbourhoods starting with Thornton Heath ward, moving to Selhurst and then to Broadmead to create connections amongst residents, children and other family members and will develop and grow a community asset map for their area.   Read more

We would like to introduce you to Improving Futures, an early intervention programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund to support families with complex needs. Some families experience multiple and complex needs - poor health, domestic violence, unemployment, debt or housing problems - which can affect their children's wellbeing and life chances.

The Big Lottery Fund's Improving Futures programme aims to improve outcomes for children within these families. Over the next five years 26 projects across the UK will work with thousands of children and families to help improve life chances and will trial a range of new approaches to early intervention and support. Uniquely each project is led by the voluntary sector, working in partnership with local authorities in Wales and England, Community Planning Partnerships in Scotland, and Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland. Each partnership will receive up to 900,000 over three to five years to work with families whose eldest children are aged five to 10 years old. Around 10,000 families will directly benefit from this programme.