Stories from communities
Grimsby: Opportunity knocks
How National Lottery funding in Grimsby helps residents build skills, access local jobs and strengthen community connections.
Building a trauma-informed workforce in Nottingham
Claire Austin shares her experiences of further developing a trauma-informed workforce as part of the systems change framework within Small Steps Big Changes (SSBC), Nottingham.
Bringing young children, books and writers together
Nicola Hancock explains how they brought early years into the Bradford Literature Festival.
Families, friendships and education: Sheffield Young Carers
A case study on how Sheffield Young Carers supports young people with caring roles through emotional support, time out, and help for the whole family.
Innovation and Evaluation: Keeping the end goal in mind
Clare Law explains how measuring impact can go hand-n-hand with innovation in early years support.
Infant mental health – giving babies’ emotional development a better start
Richard Newson considers how work spanning the five A Better Start partnerships aims to improve awareness of early mental health.
Increasing the uptake of Healthy Start in Nottingham
Hayley Ellis writes about the work being done in Nottingham to increase the uptake of the NHS’s Healthy Start Scheme.
Increasing the uptake of healthy start food vouchers
Amy McDonald describes how the programme is supporting local families to make healthy food part of their diets.
Improving Outdoor Play Spaces
Capital investment and improving outcomes for young children are going hand-in-hand in Blackpool
Ideas Fund – encouraging innovation by communities
In Nottingham, a community-led scheme is commissioning grass-roots projects to improve the lives of young children and families.