A monthly series of online sessions for parents and carers to help their child and family know what happens after school. These cover areas including further education, employment, housing, benefits, adult support and health. All welcome.
More information and bookings can be found on our events page.
Are you supporting a family member or friend with mental ill health?
Rethink offers
Website: Rethink Carer Support: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Peterborough and Area FASD Support Group are a regional support group based in Peterborough but offering support to families in the city and in the surrounding counties (Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, & Bedfordshire). They have been meeting for over 10 years. The support group is co-ordinated by parents and carers of children and young people with FASD to support families in a similar position.
They hold two different support groups each month, outside of the school holidays. One is on the second weekend of each month for the whole family and they meet at various locations to reach as many people as possible. The second is a coffee morning drop-in session on the fourth Thursday of the month in the café of a Peterborough Garden Centre. Dates are advertised on the Peterborough FASD support group and the FASD UK Facebook pages
Email: fieldofenterprise@gmail.com
Telephone: Brian & Maureen Roberts 01354 669086
Facebook: Closed Facebook page Peterborough Family FASD support group
Shine provides specialist support from before birth and throughout the life of anyone living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus, as well as to parents, families, carers and professional care staff.
For people living in Cambridgeshire, please contact Shine for more information.
Sharon Lapsley, Senior Support and Development Worker: sharon.lapsley@shinecharity.org.uk
Website: Shine – Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus
Parents Forum for parents of deaf children and young people meets termly at various locations. Deafness or hearing loss aged 0-19. Contact: Natalie Pulfer. Phone 07920 258705.
Support, Offload, Chat is a mutual support group for parents and carers of children with special needs based in Huntingdon. If you care for a child with additional needs and want to talk and share ideas with people in a similar situation, pop down for a cuppa and chat. SOC meets every Friday afternoon during term time,9-11am at Huntingdon Youth Centre, Sallowbush Road, PE29 7AF. You can turn up on the day. Contact Emma Britton on 07798 633303 Email SOC.huntingdon@hotmail.com
Huntingdon Children and Family Centre offer groups, events, activities, courses and support for families with children aged 0-19. As well as our network of Child and Family Centres, we provide activities, groups, events and courses in libraries, churches and other community locations across the county. come and have a chat and access additional support.
Huntingdon Child and Family Centre, Huntingdon Nursery School, Ambury Road, Huntingdon PE29 1AD
More information is available on their website
• Does your child struggle?
• Does your child get frustrated?
• Does your child fit in?
• Is it easier to stay at home?
• Do you feel isolated?
Then March Pegs offers a place to bring your child/children to have a chat or just a chance to get out of your house!
March Pegs is a voluntary organisation which understands children with unique personalities or a child who has been diagnosed with a different way of thinking. In fact four of our volunteer helpers are parents of children with special needs and the other two volunteers have years of experience working with these children.
Seasonal themed activities are planned and supported by our volunteers so the children can join in if they wish or they can just free play. Let your child/children be themselves in a safe and entertaining environment.
T: 07989 685796 (or text Sharon on this number)
Facebook: March Pegs.
