Category Archives: Web feature

National Family Week 30th May – 5th June 2011

National Family Week is a series of events and activities designed to bring families together, provide inspirational family fun and let you have access to some family focused special offers too. The campaign website is available here at www.nationalfamilyweek.co.uk The … Continue reading

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Waltham Forest College – an Open Evening

Waltham Forest College are holding an Open Evening on Thursday, 17th March 2011. (4.30 to 7.30pm). If you are a parent or carer thinking of acquiring new skills or re-entering the workplace, then there will be plenty to talk about … Continue reading

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Will you recycle your festive tree!

As the holiday winds down and we eventually get back to our regular routine the Borough has posted some advice about how to recycle your festive tree wisely.You can find advice on tree recycling here on these Borough web pages. … Continue reading

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Disability and access questions?

The Borough now has a great web site, in partnership with disabledGo, to access information on buildings and venues in our area, which tells you all about their access potential and services. The pages give you information on over 1,000 … Continue reading

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Advice for Parents

You can view or download the Headstart for Parents and Prospective Parents publication from the Waltham Forest Family Information Service pages here. This is a great booklet (in pdf format) that gives parents and those about to become parents comprehensive … Continue reading

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Borough ‘Green’ News

Summer tree news – Waltham Forest is carrying out a consultation on the development of it’s current Tree Strategy. You can fill in an on-line survey (it only takes a couple of minutes) and you will get your chance to … Continue reading

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Holiday travel advice

This summer many families and children may be traveling abroad to visit family and friends. The NHS have produced a new website packed with information about traveling healthily, telephone advice lines and up to date health information on destination countries. … Continue reading

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Children’s Art Day 2010

Children’s Art Day events for 2010 run across the week 12th to 18th July 2010. On the engage in the visual arts web pages you can find out what is going in in your favourite part of the city. From … Continue reading

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Volunteering and the 2012 Games

It is estimated that some 70,000 volunteers will be needed to help get the 2012 events under way. Volunteering England have just set up some new web pages to help you find out about volunteering as part of the 2012 … Continue reading

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Featured website: BBC Parenting

The BBC Parenting website has a great feature on the biology of Dads! You can see a  film, presented by child psychologist Laverne Antrobus, who looks at the reasons that a Dad’s relationship with his children is so important. The … Continue reading

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