Family Voice Norfolk

08/06/2026

🟥 FREE Bookstart Packs and Let’s Play bags

🔹 The Help Hub Van will be visiting towns and villages, attending community events and offering support, advice and activities.

🔹If you need advice or support in a confidential space , you can pop along and speak one-on-one with a member of the Help Hub team. No appointments are required.

🔹The staff will listen to your needs and provide guidance and signposting if appropriate. With your consent, the team are also able to log your request for support with the Help Hub and a follow-up call can be arranged.

🔹The Help Hub van will be giving away Bookstart packs and Let’s Play bags as free gifts to families with babies and preschool children.

⬇️ See below where and when the van will be in your area.

09/06/2026 10am – 2pm Help Hub outreach Buxton Village Hall, Mill St, Buxton, Norwich NR10 5HB
10/06/2026 9:30am – 1pm Help Hub outreach Brooke Village Hall, Norwich Rd, Norwich NR15 1A
11/06/2026 10am – 2:30pm Help Hub outreach with the Communities Team and Mindful Towns and Villages Pennoyer Centre, Station Rd, Pulham St Mary, Diss IP21 4QT
16/06/2026 9:15am – 11:15am Help Hub outreach with Best Start Family Hub Lingwood Village Hall, Station Rd, Lingwood, Norwich NR13 4AZ
17/06/2026 10:30am – 2pm Help Hub outreach at Old Catton Lunch Club St. Margaret’s Church Hall, Blacksmiths Way, Norwich NR6 7DT
18/06/2026 10:30am – 2pm Help Hub outreach with the Communities Team at Needham Coffee and Chat Needham Village Hall, 52 High Rd, Needham, Harleston IP20 9LB
29/06/2026 10am – 3:30pm Help Hub outreach Taverham Village Hall, Sandy Ln, Taverham, Norwich NR8 6JR

ℹ️ Are you a community group or service supporting the health and wellbeing of Broadland and South Norfolk residents?

🔹The Help Hub Van can attend your venue or event to offer face-to-face Help Hub support free of charge.
Invite the Help Hub team to your event using our online form.

ℹ For further information or to book the Help Hub van:
📞 01603 430611
📧 [email protected]
See here 👉 https://shorturl.at/mRGl9

ℹ For promotional posters of the different venues email:�[email protected]

Community outreach vehicle is used as a mobile space to deliver face-to-face support to residents in rural and isolated parishes

03/06/2026

SIBS is a support group for adult siblings of autistic people.

All sessions take place online and each sessions Includes a topic. The next topic is:

Topic: Demand Avoidance and the PANDA Method
🗓 17th June.
⏰ 7pm-8.30pm

To find out more and to join the group, click here 👉

Being a sibling to an autistic person can bring a whole range of experiences, feelings and complexity to your life that it can be hard for others to relate to. Connecting with others who just ‘get’ what sibling life is like can help you to feel more confident and less isolated in your sibling ro...

02/06/2026

Deadline for completing Norfolk County Council’s survey on OAP (Ordinarily Available Provision) and the PEaSS (Provision Expected at SEN Support), is 12th June 2026!

You’ll find all the information and survey in our April Newsletter 👉 https://shorturl.at/miU61

01/06/2026

📣 Our May newsletter is out! Sorry it’s late!

🔶 In this month’s edition you can find information on:

🔸 Family Voice Norfolk representation at the Eastern Region Parent Carer Forum meeting
🔸 Family Voice Norfolk Ambassadors
🔸 The Norfolk Deaf Festival is back at the Forum in June
🔸 NHS Norfolk and Waveney Children and Young Peoples health services want parent carers of children aged between 0-16 to join the conversation.
🔸 Transport for disabled children and young people survey
🔶 And much more!

If you see a title that interests you, click on it and you will be taken straight to the article ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ezKOt

If you’d like to ensure you never miss our newsletters you can join our free membership and we’ll email it to you each month. You can join here ➡️ https://www.familyvoice.org.uk/contact/join-2/

01/06/2026

Can you help highlodge_thetford shape a new inclusive wheelchair swing for their forests?

They’re looking for feedback from wheelchair users and those supporting wheelchair users to help shape the design at this early stage.

📝 Complete their short survey here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=6SXFBeT5okyMVeR0AnLDvJNmn2O3Gk5HtvezqPz7vF5UOVNQWFBQUlVIRUNKUVVGWTlNNklYNVJDUi4u&route=shorturl

31/05/2026

Living in North Norfolk? Do you have a young adult with a learning disability?

Join the Norfolk Learning Disability Partnership at their next group meeting.

They also have 4 other Locality Groups in Norfolk.
-Norwich
-Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
-South Norfolk
-Great Yarmouth

For more information about the Norfolk Learning Disability Partnership, click here 👉 https://www.norfolkldpartnership.org.uk/locality-groups/

Follow them on Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/ldpartnership?

30/05/2026

Need SEND information, advice, or support? Norfolk SENDIASS are in libraries across the county this June, offering friendly drop-in sessions. 💬

Find a location near you and pop in for a chat: https://www.norfolksendiass.org.uk/in-the-community/engagment-and-advice-library-drop-in-sessions

Source: norfolksendiass

29/05/2026

All About Apprenticeships - apprenticeships and opportunities fair is heading to the Forum, Norwich, on Tuesday 16th June, 3.30pm-7.00pm

Bringing together local employers of all sizes, apprenticeship training providers and experienced apprenticeship ambassadors under one roof.

📍Apprenticeships Norfolk Team will also be heading across the county offering information, advice and signposting around all things Apprenticeships.

You can find out more about the fair and where the team will be, here 👉

Explore our virtual and face-to-face events around the county

28/05/2026

Starting next week! Realising Potential Programme!

Open to people aged 16+ either with a physical or learning disabilities to get active and develop personal skills.

The programme lasts 10-weeks/12-weeks with one session per week.

🗓 Every Wednesday - starting 4th June
🕐 1.30pm-3.30pm
📍 Carrow Park, Community Sports Foundation, Kerrison Road, Norwich

🔷 The programme includes:
🔹 Advice and one-to-one support
🔹 Multi-sports, dance and other active sessions
🔹 Additional educational support
🔹 CV writing, interview techniques, and employability workshops
🔹 AQA certificate of achievement
🔹 Volunteering & employment opportunities
🔹 Progression routes to other Foundation programmes

Register here ➡️

Get active and develop personal skills with our Realising Potential programme for people with physical and learning disabilities.Aimed at children and a...

28/05/2026

If you're a student with a learning difficulty, health problem or disability you may be eligible for a Disabled Students' Allowance.

Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) is support to cover the study-related costs you have because of a mental health problem, long-term illness or any other disability.This can be on its own or in addition to any student finance you get.

The type of support and how much you get depends on your individual needs - not your household income. You can find out more here ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=Help+if+you%27re+a+student+with+a+learning+difficulty%2C+health+problem+or+disability

Did you know that you could be eligible for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)?

You don’t need to have a physical disability to get DSA. You can also get support if you have a learning difficulty, a long-term medical condition or mental health condition.

Find out more about DSA eligibility: https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowance-dsa/eligibility