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Friday, 21 March 2014

Contact a Family Cymru - Your Own Groups FREE Workshop - put in your request

Dear Friends
FREE workshops! Would your support group like to have a free workshop from Contact a Family Cymru? If so please read on.

Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund and the Welsh Government, and with the support of our partners Irwin Mitchell, Contact a Family Cymru is able to offer free workshop sessions to support groups across Wales during 2014. We are offering a wide range of topics, from ‘benefits’ to ‘behaviour’ and ‘education rights’ to ‘sleep’, all aimed to support and empower families of children with additional needs. See the enclosed leaflet for details of the key sessions we can offer, and note that we can adjust the sessions to fit the needs of your group.

The workshops will be run in a very informal way, with lots of opportunity for discussion and questions. It certainly won’t be like sitting through a boring classroom lecture! And more importantly we would like to offer these workshops at a time and location that is convenient for your group. So, we hope to deliver the sessions when and where you would normally hold your meetings. The sessions will be approximately 2½ hours, with some optional time at the end for refreshments and chat. See the format of a typical session on the enclosed leaflet.

Still interested? We hope so! If you are, please read the enclosed leaflet carefully and send the form back to us to register your interest. We will then get back in touch with you to discuss things further. But be quick, we expect demand to be high and the sessions will be delivered to groups on a ‘first come first served’ basis. If you have any questions, please call or email me.

Best wishes J


Richard Jones
Manager, Contact a Family Cymru
(  07809 260210
8  richard.jones@cafamily.org.uk





Although this could be a great opportunity for your group, there are some downsides that you need to be aware of. Firstly, unfortunately, we are unable to deliver the workshops in Welsh, but if your group requests it, we can provide Welsh language notes and handouts. Secondly, as we know demand will be high and we have limited resources, we can only provide one session per group per year. Thirdly, in order for you to get the maximum benefit from the session, we will need to limit the number of attendees to 18. Sorry about that.

Contact a Family Cymru, 33-35 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9HB   -   Tel: 02920 396624   -   cymru@cafamily.org.uk
Registered charity: 284912 


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