"Family Food and Fun in Rushcliffe"

I can't thank our Family worker Geraldine enough at Bingham Surestart Children’s Centre for letting me know about the Family Food and Fun programme. 

As a mum and a full time carer of a 5 year old disable daughter with severe special who has Cri Du Chat Syndrome with a lot of Autistic traits and a 3 and half year old little boy who has challenging behaviour, this programme for us was absolutely brilliant. 

At first I was very nervous as I didn't know how my daughter would be, despite some behaviours, all the staff were fantastic and understanding. She really got involved in the activities, she particularly enjoyed the session with the drumming and loved the week we did rice crispy cakes. My little boy really enjoyed the food preparation and he too enjoyed the drumming session and the sporting activity week. It was lovely to meet other parents. 

It was good to sit all together and have a meal which the children had helped to make. With lots of lovely recipes given out I have even been able to make the courgette balls which my 3 and a half year old loves and he absolutely loved the cheese and chives scones made yesterday at home that we made last week and the vegetable soup we made I've done that this week at home to be told it tastes lovely. 

All three of us have thoroughly enjoyed our time at this Surestart programme, I can't thank you all enough for running it, its really helped us all and been a lot of fun too. Many thanks