CARERS: WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Children and young people should soon have received a copy of the Virtual School and Corporate Parenting newsletter. It’s packed full of information and ideas for activities.

Home cooking

Please encourage and help your youngsters to read the newsletter. They may need your help to carry out some of the activities, such as the recipe ideas, creating the time capsule or learning some ways to relax.

We’d love children and young people to send us photos of things they have made, whether it’s a calm jar, some chocolate nests or something made from an old milk container!

Bedtime stories and other activities!

Curve Theatre have created downloadable activity packs for children. They can invent their own marvelous medicine with George, learn how to draw their very own character with Cat and help Gerald the Giraffe find his way to the Jungle Dance with a fab Jungle Maze.

https://www.curveonline.co.uk/bedtime-stories/

To help with homeschooling, Curve have also asked leading actors to read a selection of stories for children. For the first tale, children can read along with Leicester actor Mark Peachey as he narrates David WalliamsRatburger.

https://www.curveonline.co.uk/news/childrens-activity-pack/

Leicestershire Matters

Five community organisations across Leicestershire were awarded funding through the NIHR HDRC Community Grants Programme to run local events that gathered insights into the lived experiences of residents and informed key research priorities.

As technology continues to reshape how we live, work, and connect, it is opening new opportunities. From applying for jobs online to accessing essential services and support, digital tools are now central to everyday life.

Grassroots community groups across Leicestershire are being invited to take part in an exciting opportunity to shape local research and improve health and wellbeing in their area.

The HDRC Leicestershire team met in mid-January for an evaluation workshop, hosted by Rose Harvey - our external evaluation partner for the duration of our funding period, helping us reflect, learn and increase impact.

We held workshops across Leicestershire schools to hear about young people's priorities within their local areas to support community health and wellbeing.

The HDRC Leicestershire Research to Reality training series concluded a successful year in September with 94 attendees across the four-session series.