One Family Wish List

• Crèche Maintenance
  • Paint baby changing room
  • Put a hook on the ceiling in the baby changing room (to hang a mobile on)
  • Paint children’s toilet room
• Equipment (Outdoor)
  • Small basketball set
  • Tricycle
  • Small pop up tunnel
  • Play car
  • Replace safety tiles in backyard
• Equipment (Indoor)
  • Small ball pool
  • Wall mirror – safe for children
  • Adult chair for nursing babies – but not too big or too unsafe
  • Mobile to hang in baby changing room
  • New sand for sand box
  • A second table – child’s table similar to what we have
  • 6 new child size chairs
  • Dress up clothes
  • Games and puzzles for children aged 1-5 years
• Special help
  • Toy appeal at Christmas
  • Complimentary passes to any family friendly events or venues to support days out (summer programme, parents week (October 13^th, International day of the Family May 15^th)

• Mentoring on website development and digital marketing
• Sponsorship or donation of relevant agency time for publications e.g. Human rights booklet (printers)
• Printing of newsletter One Family Matters, leaflets etc
• PR support for identified events
• Donation of any nice facilities for launches
• Team of people to carry out some basic market research (i.e. just on the street or in the workplace etc) to establish the current understanding of the knowledge of our three brands: Cherish, One Family & Gingerbread. The planning for the research is done and the questionnaire prepared (would suit 1- 5 people).

• Helpline/general client calls to mobiles – any ideas on how to reduce our costs

• Sales training (for marketing our own training and PR for helpline)
• Financial assistance with publication of training manuals e.g. Family Futures manual

• Post box/Ballot box or some small lockable box (wall-mounted ideally) for client feedback in reception
• Plants & large paintings for Training rooms and Mentoring room
• New small table for reception and 2 chairs, new small table for Training room (attic)
• Office carpet cleaning throughout building
• New carpet for hall and stairs
• (Priority) Skip/van to remove broken furniture, toys and old publications
• Replace Creche back door
• Donate materials for painting of interior and exterior of building.
• Paint exterior window frames, doors (basement) and railings
• Paint interior walls –hallways
• Paint basement office, new carpet for basement office

6. Fundraising

• A team of packers to help with one of our planned bag packs at a major supermarket- dates are available for anyone available to help. This would suit groups of up to 30 people Lend a Hand Bag Packing
• Volunteers to hold fundraisers in aid of One Family. A to Z of Fundraising Ideas for All
• A team of people interested in going skydiving and raising money for One Family The Big Jump
• Donations of prizes that could be raffled at events we hold.
• Donation of suitable venues for any fundraising events we may be holding.
• Sponsorship of future fundraising events.
• Volunteers to assist with future fundraising events.