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We are planning to hold a fun and awareness day to celebrate the local SEND families. Open to all, the event will cater for pan-disabilities needs. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for SEND families to be part of a community event with the whole of their family, while raising their profile among other communities in Brent. The event will have short- and longer-term outcomes, as we are also planning to gather verbal and written feedback from SEND families which will be used as the basis for a report providing vital information to the 1 Voice Community Charity - this will be used to plan and deliver services suited to the needs of local families. We have been very lucky to have secured a venue in central location in Brent at Brent Civic Centre, Wembley HA9 0FJ. Brent is a young borough with 35.1% of the population aged 20 - 39. It has high number of school age pupils with Education, Health and Social Care Plans (EHCP) numbering around 1700. The number of statutory assessments initiated for children under five years of age following notification from the health authority (around 452) has increased considerably, partly due to better early identification, but it is also an indication of more children being born with complex needs and having a longer lifespan due to improvements in medical science. (SEN Magazine) research has shown that "parents with disabled children have higher levels of stress and lower levels of wellbeing than parents with non-disabled children". A recent report published during Carers' Week found that 75% of carers, including parent carers, had suffered isolation as a result of their caring responsibilities. Furthermore, in many cases parent carers are facing emotional and social barriers, as well as being stigmatised for having a child with SEND. We would like to provide a warm and welcoming opportunity for these families to have fun and learn from fellow parent carers about the various service available. Many parent carers find it useful to talk to families in similar circumstances. Our work will also benefit the whole community of Brent in helping them learn about the needs of families who have children with SEND.

Send a Cow provide seeds, tools, livestock and agricultural training, alongside community development workshops in gender equality, conflict-resolution and farm business skills. Through our unique principle of 'passing on the gift' families we support commit to 'pass on' their training, seeds, and the first female offspring of their livestock to another family in need. In this way the original 'gift' strengthens entire communities as project benefits ripple out and spread our impact far wider than those we directly work with. “When we first start working with families, we don’t ask what they need. We ask them what they have already got.” Aklilu Dogosso, Send a Cow Ethiopia Send a Cow doesn't offer a quick fix solution to poverty and rural development - typically working with communities for three to five years to offer a hand-up rather than a hand-out and effect substantial and sustainable change. Within a few months malnourished families are eating regularly and are able to pay for children to attend school. Within a year families are diversifying their income streams to ensure they can survive when food is scarce and when unexpected disasters strike such as drought. Once graduated from Send a Cow families are economically stable with savings to invest and expand their farming businesses. Despite having helped over one million of the world’s poorest and most marginalised people out of poverty, there’s still more work to do. 220 million people in Africa go hungry every day, with nearly half living on less than 80p a day. It costs £650 to send a cow to a family in Africa. A cow is enough to provide a family with over 3,000 litres of milk a year. This milk gives nutrition to the whole family and brings a steady source of income every year from the scale of the surplus. In addition, using the cow’s manure on the land makes a huge difference to crop yields.

On Friday 30th June is National Cream Tea Day! please come to our store and help us change lives for people living with sight loss in the UK. we will offer teas and treats in exchange of a voluntary donation to support Guide Dogs.