Volunteer with us as an Early Years Parent Champion!
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Did your family use funded childcare support? Did it help your child? If so, we need your help to support other families in your community.
We are looking for parents who had a good experience with accessing their funded childcare entitlements to share their story and help others. By joining our Early Years Parent Champions programme, you can help other parents understand the support available for childcare costs.
Your story could help them feel confident and get the help they need.
If you want to help other families and share the benefits you received, we would love to have you involved.
What is an Early Years Parent Champion?
These are volunteers who talk to other parents about the government-funded childcare offers and how this has benefited themselves and their children.
What will I have to do?
Early Years Parent Champions are able to spare 2 to 3 hours per week with the aim to talk to about 3-5 other parents. This can often happen as you go about your daily routine and come across other parents.
For instance, this could be when you visit local playgrounds, markets, clinics, community centres, school gates, family hubs or any similar places with your own children.
Will there be training?
To become an official Early Years Parent Champion volunteer, you will need to attend our four week mandatory training*, which will be held in collaboration with Coram Family and Childcare.
Training for our latest cohort will be held on:
- Thursday 1st May
- Thursday 8th May
- Thursday 15th May
- Thursday 22nd May
The training sessions for this cohort will be held at the Tresham Centre, 27 Swain St, London NW8 8TS**.
*A creche will be made available to all parents and carers attending our mandatory training sessions. If this is something you will require, please mention this to our coordinator Jade.
**If you incur any travel costs while travelling to our training venue then we would be happy to reimburse you for these, however we do require that you provide us with a valid VAT receipt for any Oyster Card top-up/travel card purchase.
How will this benefit me?
In addition to building your confidence, learning new skills and meeting like-minded people, volunteers will get:
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access to further training opportunities
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after 4 months: a written reference
I am interested - what's next?
Apply to be an Early Years Parent Champion with us by filling out our online application form.
If you'd like to hear more about our programme, then you are welcome to join one of our Early Years Parent Champions information sessions, held weekly on:
- Thursday 13th March at 2pm
- Friday 21st March at 4pm
- Monday 24th March at 9.30am
- Tuesday 1st April at 11am
- Wednesday 9th April at 1pm
- Thursday 17th April at 3pm
- Friday 25th April at 10.30am
Interested? Book your space here!
If you would like to discuss the role further or need any help to make your application, please contact Jade (Early Years Champions Coordinator - Family Information Service) on:
[email protected] or 07970 599813
Please note: to become an Early Years Parent Champion you will need to complete a mandatory training course (with creche available) and complete a DBS form (at no cost to you).