Circle's vision is for all children to be safe, happy and healthy within a stable family environment which supports them to achieve their potential.

Circle works with children and families across Scotland who experience the negative effects of persistent poverty, social injustice and health inequalities. To help establish nurturing environments for children in these communities, Circle works with the whole family to address the various challenges and problems they are experiencing.

Circle understands that all parents want to give their children the love, attention and support they need and deserve but for a variety of reasons they are experiencing difficulties. Our Family Outreach Workers give these families an opportunity to talk, to highlight and build on the strengths they already have whilst being supported to get help with any specific problems they are going through.

Our Senior Family Outreach Worker, Julie, who works in our Haven service organises baby first aid training and one of our baby groups immersed themselves in this training led by Lyndsey from Mini First Aid Edinburgh & the Lothians.

This experience is invaluable to parents and also contributes to the safety and wellbeing of their little ones.

The feedback from the group was very positive. One of the parents added: "𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘹𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴."

With Lyndsey's expertise, the group quickly became skilled and confident!

With every donation, we can sustain funding for invaluable training sessions like this to help parents to enhance their skills.