VACANCY AT OUR UPTON BISHOP SESSION

PART-TIME PLAY ASSISTANT REQUIRED
(4 hours per week, £6.14 per hour)

Enthusiastic Play Assistant needed to help at our soft-play sessions at Upton Bishop Millennium Hall near Ross-on-Wye on Monday mornings. This is a physical role in a fun environment.

Contact Nicky Rowlands on 07837 736 612 or
email: info@jumpstartkidz.org.uk
Please apply by : 24th February 2012
Funded by the National Lottery through Big Lottery Fund.

Registered Charity Number 1097901

JUMPSTART CONTACTS

You can contact Jumpstart by calling

Project Manager, Nicky Rowlands

Tel: 07837 736612 or Email: nickyrowlands73@hotmail.com

or

Development Manager, Mags Smith

Tel: 07837 736635 or Email: info@jumpstartkidz.org.uk

FOR SALE - in aid of Jumpstart

MAMAS AND PAPAS TRAVEL COT

Navy blue, in very good condition. £15 or nearest offer.

BIG LOTTERY FUND

We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in our bid to the Big Lottery Fund for a grant to keep Jumpstart running for the next five years. This grant funding will keep our existing sessions running and we are opening two new sessions - one at the Ross-on-Wye Children's Centre on Mondays and one at Tudorville on Tuesdays.

We'd like to thank the Big Lottery Fund and also a big 'thank you' to our beneficiaries and supporters who helped with our consultation, bid and generally kept us going over the last 12 months. Well done everyone and thank you.

JUMPSTART FUNDERS

Jumpstart couldn't operate without the grant funding we receive from grant-making trusts. We'd like to thank the Eveson Charitable Trust, EF Bulmer Benevolent Fund and The Trusthouse Charitable Trust for their generous support of our work this year.

WHO'S WHO AT JUMPSTART

Nicky Rowlands is Jumpstart's Project Manager. She is responsible for the day to day running of Jumpstart, including managing the sessions, staff and volunteers. You can also talk to Nicky if you're interested in running a stall at a Jumpstart session.

Mags Smith is the Development Manager and is responsible for funding and development issues. She also handles publicity, policies and admin for Jumpstart.

As they share their role, you can contact either Nicky or Mags with your queries.

QUALITY AWARDS

We are delighted to have achieved the Herefordshire Childcare Services Gold Quality Assurance award which is a nationally recognised scheme approved by Investors in Children.

ONLINE SHOPPING

If you ever shop online, then why not visit our new shopping pages? Many major retailers can be reached through our store front page and by linking in this way, you save time and hassle visiting the shops and Jumpstart benefits by getting a contribution for every purchase you make. You'll see our searchable banner at the top of each page on the website.Have a look and if you like it, please recommend it to your friends and family as well. You'll find more information on the notice board at our sessions and in our publicity leaflets.The address to go to is www.buy.at/jumpstart

TRUSTEES - we need YOU!

Would you like to come to the pub once every six weeks or so? Would you like to make some new friends and benefit children and young families with Jumpstart? Well, we want YOU to be a Trustee.

Jumpstart is a charity and we are run by a fantastic, friendly, group of trustees on our Management Committee. The Trustees meet every six weeks or so and discuss issues relating to Jumpstart; what sessions are well attended and why; how the finances are looking; where we should look to develop for the future etc. You don't have to have any experience or do anything else except attend the meetings - just being there and sharing your views is enough. We would love to hear from anybody who thinks they may be interested in coming along to our meetings. If you think this is for you then we have a training budget for trustees and it is a really good way to find out about how charities work. Contact Mags or speak to a Play Leader if you are at all interested.

PARENTING LIBRARY

Look out for our Parenting Library which will be brought out to sessions. It is packed full of useful books with helpful and reassuring information on any subject relating to young children. There are also a selection of PC games suitable for you and your child to take away and play together at home. All these resources are there to be loaned out to parents and carers so, please, feel free!

TABLE SALES OR SALES TABLES

Do you have lots of good quality clothes or equipment cluttering your house?  Why not have a Sale Table at one of the Jumpstart sessions? 

Once a month, at each session, there will be a table available for Jumpstart users to sell their secondhand children’s clothes, toys and equipment.  All we ask is a straight £5 donation.  Speak with the Play Leader to book a date.