Activities HFN Support 

HFN believes that a key part to fostering is to build a strong support network around you with your fellow carers.
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This is why HFN organise social events throughout the year for carers to meet up with their fostering family. It's not only an opportunity for carers to catch up but also a time for the children in their care to meet other children in similar situations to themselves. Often young people can feel different, like they are the only young person in care, or the only child whose family foster. By meeting up with other young people they quickly realise they’re not ‘the only one’ living away from home with a different family, or sharing their family with a new child. It helps our young people to build a network of friends while also building on the self esteem and identity.

By applying to other charities and organisations for additional grants HFN have been able to provide some very special activities for our young people.

•  Each year we run a couple of indoor rock climbing sessions
• We also hold a couple of dry ski slope donutting sessions each year.
• HFN organises an annual family fire safety day.
• Twice a year we hold foster family craft events.
• We have held a Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance family information event
• Monthly exclusive indoor play centre events are organised for foster families
• We run monthly cinema mornings just for our looked after children and their foster families.
• We hold monthly family meet ups in the country parks around Hampshire.
  
• We use some wonderful activity centres such as Ferny Croft in the New Forest, or Prime Paddle in Gosport to run activity days.
  

 
All our events are subsidised by HFN and open to the whole of the fostering family. Click HERE to see some of our past events.
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