We’re so grateful for all the help we have received enabling us to feed vulnerable families at this time, from generous grants to help with the shopping. Tha...

Here at Flourishing Families our regular projects are all on hold, but there is still plenty going on. Over the last few weeks we have been providing food sh...

As part of our response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and in line with government guidelines, we have temporarily stopped all of our projects. Howev...

Flourishing Families recently organised some training for our English class volunteers. Our English class has continued to grow from strength to strength wit...

As the Christmas holidays begin we look back on what's been a fantastic term for our family cooking clubs. We have been able to expand our volunteer base wit...

This week the Flourishing Families team had the wonderful task of distributing around over 40 big sackfuls of presents to families in some of the schools we w...

The mentoring projects at Flourishing Families have continued to develop and grow this term- we now have a bigger team of volunteers than ever before, with 2...

A big THANK YOU to Leeds City Council Language Hub for supporting our Side by Side project. Through their support, we have been able to fund our latest Story...

At the start of a new year of working in schools we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the last year. We’re enormously grateful to our supporters, volunte...

A BIG thank you to Sovereign Health Care who are supporting our new Better Together Project which addresses literacy and nutrition challenges faced by famili...

This week we rounded up our Story Tellers groups by celebrating the children’s achievements. The children were given certificates entitled ‘World’s Best Stor...

English Class finished for this term with our annual English class summer party. The students, teachers and volunteers gathered at a local pub in Leeds for d...

The Flourishing Families team are very excited to have completed our very first Art and Soul project- a weekly craft and coffee morning where parents can enj...

Our family cooking group in Bramley St Peters school enjoyed a special day this week as professional chef and Education student Harry made a guest appearance...

Thanks to generous support from Leeds Community Foundation through the Fairhurst Fund, it's been our pleasure and privilege at Flourishing Families to delive...

What a brilliant start to the term at Summerfield Primary School with our 2 week Creative Writing Masterclass! Led by English Literature student Anna May fro...

We held our Easter party this year in our teaching room at Leeds Beckett University, swapping grammar for games and books for biscuits! Party snacks include...

This term, Flourishing Families has seen the launch of Story Tellers! Our new family reading group has started in two of our partnering schools with a total ...

This term our English class had a great time celebrating Shrove Tuesday together. We enjoyed making and eating pancakes and trying out some traditional toppi...

We’d like to say a BIG thank you to Leeds Community Foundation who have kindly funded a successful cookery project. Their grant was given during our first ye...