September 9th -
At the start of a new year of working in schools we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the last year. We’re enormously grateful to our supporters, volunteers, staff and partnering schools who have invested their time, money and trust into working with families in some of the most deprived areas of Leeds.
We are passionate about helping children and families overcome challenges, painting a brighter horizon for their futures together. We’ve worked hard to ensure that our beneficiaries play an active part in decision-making and shaping activities so that projects are activities that we do together.
Over the last year we have:
We’re now in a position to help people overcome challenges of low family literacy levels, poor financial literacy, low self-esteem, relational difficulties within families, bereavement, lack of confidence with parenting, social exclusion, isolation due to language barriers, poor nutrition and obesity.
As we look forward, the next phase of our development will be about coordinating all we can offer both internally and externally with other organisations to maximise the positive impact for individual families. So, we’d like to say a huge thank you to our supporters, volunteers, staff and partners for helping to transform the lives of so many people and for laying the foundations for helping even more families to bring down barriers which hinder them from flourishing.
Did you know that one in five children in the UK don't own their own book? The cost of living crisis is hitting families hard this Winter; particularly for families in the most deprived areas of Leeds where access to books is becoming even more limited.
We are really pleased to play a part in shaping the Leeds Food Strategy.
On the day that the new Prime Minister is announced, Flourishing Families was interviewed as part of BBC Breakfast’s feature on the cost of living crisis.
The cost of living crisis is hitting hard from every angle. Families are facing the impossible choice between putting food on the table and turning the heating on.