PROJECT
Brighter Beginnings
PURPOSE
To increase families' access to support services, childcare and financial benefits as well as improve parents' wellbeing
FUNDING
A £278,000 grant from the Department for Education in 2018 funded 12 four-week Brighter Beginnings programmes. A further £65,000 from charitable trusts and major donors is funding nine six-week programmes
BACKGROUND
The charity Contact supports families with disabled children and was keen to develop help on offer in the early years. "We did some research that showed families were contacting us when their children were aged nine or 10," explains Kate Wyke, development officer at Contact. "Parents would say ‘if only we had found you sooner'."
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