What We Do
We support our community in different ways. We fund enrichment activities for children such as music, swimming, boxing, cooking and sport. We also run inclusive courses where adults learn new skills and meet others. We support families by helping them to access holiday provision and extra activities, and we help individuals by providing support or signposting to organisations who can help. We have a small welfare fund to help families facing particularly challenging times.
Sometimes, hardship can feel overwhelming, but we believe that celebration and creativity bring immense benefits – even at the most difficult of times. New experiences, enjoyed together, remind us that we share a universal human experience. We find new connections, feel welcomed and build new friendships through new creative activities. If you have any questions, email us at friendsofhannahmore@gmail.com
Courses
Most of our courses for adults run during school time and most are based in the community space at school. You can check what's on here: https://www.hannahmore.org.uk/our-community/adult-learning
Wider Support
We link families in to initiatives and opportunities across the city. These may be learning or leisure opportunities, or places people can access support of various kinds. During lock downs we provided food parcels including home-grown salads. Currently we are supporting families with small cost-of-living grants.
Other Activities
We support many different things! One of our popular and long-running projects is our Saturday family swim project, which offers occasional opportunities to enjoy supported, subsidised swimming sessions for only £1 per person. Sessions run during Spring and Summer
Recent Activities
We were delighted to fund some Explorerdome sessions for Reception and Year 5 at the school last term. Parents also joined in with these session.
Grants from Bristol Children's Charity and Bouygues UK enabled groups of children to visit the fantastic Van Gogh immersive exhibition in 2022.
A grant aiming to get more local people out on their bikes meant that families could get funding from us to attend the family cycling centre in Hengrove.
A grant from Quartet Community Foundation enabled us to fund after-school circus skills sessions for children in all year groups in 2022.
We partnered with the SS Great Britain to signpost parents to their wonderful community research project.
Whenever we can, we run trips and visits to nearby attractions. This helps people to access the city by removing financial and other barriers.
We are so pleased to be working with http://www.travellingkitchen.org/ throughout 2023 to open up new cooking activities to our community.
We were delighted to recevie funding to run a Windrush event. This involved the Bristol reggae orchestra performing and also involved groups in decorating the stage and providing catering.