Month: March 2025

Are you struggling to find the right staff for your childcare provision, including Wraparound and Early Years? Do you need fresh ideas to boost applications and attract quality candidates? If so, this workshop is a must-attend event! Come and join us on Thursday 27th March 2025 at 4pm – 5pm!

It’s Funding Friday, and this week we have funding information from the following: ‘Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants’; ‘Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation’; ‘Kelly Family Charitable Trust’ and ‘Alpkit Foundation’.

Are you struggling to find the right staff for your childcare provision, including Wraparound and Early Years? Do you need fresh ideas to boost applications and attract quality candidates? If so, this workshop is a must-attend event! Workshop takes place on Thursday 27th March 2025 at 4pm – 5pm.

On 8th March 2025, at sunrise, a team of five remarkable women from Mid-Devon stood at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, after an extraordinary six-day ascent. Their goal? To highlight the importance of education for girls worldwide and raise vital funds to help those who don’t have access to the same opportunities they did.

Events running in Exeter, North Devon and Ivybridge for multi-agency front-line practitioners and team managers who work with children, adults with children and/or families.

We are collecting orders for BookTrust Pre-schooler packs for those children in targeted areas of Exeter, so please look out for the email in the next week.

An appeal has been launched for local business people to volunteer their time to support the “Enterprise Adviser” initiative run by Devon, Plymouth & Torbay Careers Hub.

Information for parents / carers and settings and schools around the transition to school. Fully funded briefing sessions for providers running 30 April around successful transition for children into school.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published a new guide to the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) in early years settings. EYPP briefings session dates to be announced soon.

The Department for Education (DfE) Early Education and Childcare Provider Regional Roadshows for group-based setting leaders and managers have returned for 2025.  The South West roadshow will run on 3 June in Bristol.