New families
Fourteen new babies/young children started attending Footprints in the past few weeks, and the team has been busy creating new groups to facilitate the families.
A few of these referrals came from 'mum bloggers' and posters on Instagram who by talking about Footprints (and 'hashtag' Conductive Education), help us reach new families. If you are on Instagram, please follow us - Footprints CEC @footprints_nottingham
As the only service in Nottingham/shire that offers formal education services to pre-school children with disabilities, we value these endorsements - word of mouth works, and we're delighted that fifty-eight families are currently benefiting from our service.
"I’ve never seen anywhere where there’s so much positivity in attitude towards what disabled children can achieve; the enthusiasm is bursting out of the walls". Visitor.
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Annual survey
Thank you to the 83% of parents who were able to respond to our annual survey. Our questions focussed on three outcomes: increased movement and coordination; the ability to communicate and understand others; increased levels of engagement and levels of self-motivation. The survey outcome is shown below.
Making changes to the questions encouraged more detailed feedback, and your responses help to shape our work.
Some parents queried:
1) When we are resuming nutritious snacks: This will happen when we return after half term.
2) Opportunities for more outdoor play: As we don't have a cover, outdoor play is weather dependent, and unfortunately, it hasn't been playing fair. One day we'll have super-duper facilities!!
3) Access to more than one session per week: We are currently unable to offer more than one session PW as there's no capacity, but we're looking at it for the future.
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No better evidence of impact than an enthusiastic quote from a mum.
"If you look closely, you'll see those little feet are trying to jump on the trampoline. Conductive Education has been incredible for Nova.
@footprints_nottingham are an incredible bunch of humans. One of our Rainbows family suggested we look into CE last Christmas because it had been beneficial for her little boy 😘. I'm so, so glad we did.
Nova still has regular visits from the physio, but CE satisfies the educator in me. They've supported us with everything from learning to roll over, to eating and drinking, signing, talking, and now walking; the list is endless. We've also made some lovely friends and had loads of fun doing stuff I probably wouldn't do at home! It's been so lovely seeing Nova grow in confidence, and it's incredible to watch the team tailor the activities to suit the needs of all the children who attend. I'm thankful we found you, Footprints. Thank you"
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Congratulations to our highly inspirational Patron, Richard Whitehead on his success in Dubai, earning himself a sixth @ParaAthletics World Championship medal, taking silver in the T61 200m!
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Team Footprints FC take on Snowdon
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Getting the little train that runs up the mountain would have been more comfortable (but they insisted on doing it the hard way), and so far the team has raised more than £1,000!
Paul Brooks, Nathan Kirk, Jonathan Cherry, Sam Harrison, Joe Hughes, Sam Ablott, Gareth Edwards, Ollie Asher, Matthew Miles, and Jake climbed Snowdon in support of Footprints (and the word is that they're looking at Ben Nevis now that they have the bug!).
Huge thanks to you all, and sponsors NRG Fuel and Nottingham Audi.
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/TeamFootprintsSnowdonChallenge
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FBE Chairman's Award Dinner
We were delighted to be the nominated charity for this prestigious event, hosted by the fabulous Des Coleman on 24th October at the Albert Hall. The Chairman’s Awards Dinner recognises and rewards some of the best schemes in the construction, property and development sector in the region, along with the industry’s brightest young stars. Thank you for raising £1,700 for Footprints!
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Gleeds Treasure Hunt
The annual Gleeds Global #NottsTreasureHunt was in town on Friday 27 September, and the rain didn't dampen enthusiasm! Our Chair of Trustees, Nic Jepson, & manager, Emma-Jane, joined the breakfast get-together at Southbank City Bar on Friar Lane.
The East Midlands Construction Consultants community were fundraising for Footprints and raised £3,529! Thank you, everyone.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/treasure-hunt-2019
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London Landmarks Half Marathon 2020
We were ecstatic to hear that we had secured ten charity places in the March 2020 London Landmarks Half Marathon charity ballot. As a small charity, it's such a bonus to receive tremendous opportunities like this, helping us to raise the funds we need.
The event has 14,000 spaces, and more than 74,000 people applied, so we're delighted that our runners are stepping up to the occasion and getting lots of support! Thank you, Fiona Wallis and Robyn Morris and Dave Taylor, just two of our LLHM team. We'll upload more names over the next few weeks.
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Saturday 16 November 2019
10.30 am to 2.00 pm.
PRELOVED SALE supporting Footprints – FREE entry!
At St James Porchester Church Hall Marshall Hill Drive, Mapperley, Nottingham NG3 6FY
All items are being sold by local families and there is no entry charge. Cash payments only. Join us for a sale of preloved toys, books, games, DVDs and quality clothes suitable for ages 3-11.
Quality Brands: Lego, Disney, Hot Wheels, Shopkins, Wii, Leapfrog, Joules, Boden and much more
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Thanks to Small People, a children’s nursery in Cotgrave for supporting Footprints with their Winter Fair, Sunday 24 November from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm. Please pop in and see Sarah on our stall.
See event details
http://bit.ly/SmallPeopleWinterFair
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Lucie, and her dad, Pete Stones, are busy getting creative, making and selling woodwork items and cushions in support of Footprints. Please contact us if you'd like more details.
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With grateful thanks to
The Renewal Trust Community Grant Fund and BeBops Music Ltd.
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Little Footprints Ball
Friday, 6 November 2020 at 19:30 (more details TBA)
Crowne Plaza Nottingham
Wollaton Street, NG1 5RH Nottingham, United Kingdom
Invited by Lisa Fox
Book your tickets and keep up to date here http://bit.ly/2MmN3xc
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Christmas Charity Raffle for Footprints
Football Memorabilia - STAR PRIZE is a signed NFFC home shirt framed in black and red design
Just in time for a one-off Christmas gift for yourself, or for the person in your life who would LOVE one of these exclusive sports pieces!
Footprints ambassador, Dave Taylor, who runs The Original Nottingham Forest Memorabilia site is holding a fantastic raffle for our charity, with the draw on 14 December. To be in with a chance of winning please follow Dave's page for more details.
Tickets are £2 for a strip or three strips for £5, and payment should be made to Dave's fundraising page https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Mr.T.9
The list of prizes:
• Framed Away shirt 2018/19 season
• Framed Joe Lolley v Birmingham pic
• Framed Goal Celebrations v Brentford
• Home shirt A3 signed pic 2018/19
• Forest love A3 signed pic 2018/19
• Chris Cohen A4 pic v Ipswich
• Nelson Oliviera v Derby A3 montage
• Frank Bruno A3 signed Pic
• Tony Woodcock A4 pic
• John Robertson A3 1979 cup pic
• Geoff Hurst Goal 1966 header A3 pic
• Geoff Hurst, 'it’s all over' 4th goal A3 pic
• Martin Peters/Geoff Hurst World Cup A3 pic
• Arsenal Cup game goal celebration pic A3
• Forest line up A3 poppy pic 2017/18
• Peter Davenport A3 pic
• Sabri Lamouchi Special Edition pic A3
• Bryan Roy A4 montage (2 of these)
• Eric Lichaj Framed montage v Arsenal
• 2019/19 signed A3 team photo
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Support Footprints while you shop!
Are you a member of the Co-op? You could choose Footprints as your cause so every time you shop and use your member's card, you will be donating to us! Please consider selecting Footprints as your charity or sign up to become a member and choose us when you register. Thank you 😁https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/36995
Please don't forget to shop on Amazon through the Amazon Smile account. It keeps all your details and history and preferences so that every time you make a purchase, Amazon donates money to us! It's the best time of year to do it with a particular holiday looming! Just log in once with Smile, select Footprints and set as your default. Then carry on shopping!
www.smile.amazon.co.uk
We've all seen the green tokens in Asda supporting local charities, and we'd love to be one of them! Could you please spend two minutes nominating us, on the link below, saying why we deserve to be selected? Thank you!
https://www.asdafoundation.org/green-token-giving
Give as you Live Online is the free and easy way to raise free funds for Footprints CEC, simply by shopping online. Join for free today and start fundraising when you shop at over 4,300 stores. Click on the store where you'd like to shop, and you'll be directed to their website where you can continue to shop as usual. Your purchase will automatically generate free funds for our charity! From holidays and travel to clothing and gifts, you can raise hundreds of pounds from your online purchases.
https://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/footprintscec
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Have you joined the Footprints Lottery?
It's £1.00 per week for one line, and you are in with a chance of winning £25,000! Sign up and support us, please.
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Thank you to the local businesses, Trusts and Foundations that provide the most generous help and support!
Huge thanks to Trustees, ambassadors, volunteers, fundraisers - your help is very much appreciated.
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