HEY! Fund Resources
We've pulled together a range of resources to help your HEY! Fund journey
We’ve pulled together helpful resources to help your journey with the HEY! Fund
HEY! Fund Templates
This useful list means that you will be able to keep a track of who has attended your initiative at each session you run.
If you are taking photography of adults and children, you must ask for their consent first. If you want the photos to appear on social media (either ours or yours), you must ask participants to sign a form.
If you are providing hot drinks at your sessions, then you need to make participants aware that hot drinks can be a burns risk for young children. This visual notice will help adults to remain vigilant with their drinks.
Order your HEY! Fund goodies here including bags, trolley rings, key messaging resources, Big Little Moments goodies and much more.
Promoting your HEY! Fund Project
We are proud to support your fabulous Happy Early Years (HEY!) Fund initiative, which is funded by Better Start Bradford.
It's really important that people involved with your initiative understand where the funding has come from – putting our logos on anything that promotes your initiative helps to do this.
Click on the link below to access the logos that you will need.
What makes a great Stay and Play Group?
Playgroups are fantastic for helping children improve their language and communication, motor skills and relationship-building skills.
As well as providing an environment for children to have fun and learn, a good playgroup can have the added reward of helping to develop connections between people in the community.
In this article, BBC Tiny Happy People sets out the key things to think about when setting up your play group.
Key messaging to share with your families
Early childhood development broken down into simple steps, with activities and resources galore for families and the workforce alike.
A series of animated videos featuring everyday Big Little Moments you can share with your babies and toddlers to build their brains. The little moments you share every day make a big difference.
Download our Top Talking Tips resource and explore some of our favourite speech, language and communication resources for the early years
Messy Play & Loose Parts Play
Messy play gives young children the freedom to investigate a variety of materials, they will build vocabulary with describing words such as 'slimy', 'wet', 'cold', 'sticky'. It also provides endless opportunities for 'serve and return' interactions and taking turns.
Loose parts are simple everyday things for young children to play with. Combining messy play with loose parts gives young children freedom to experiment in different ways dependent on where their imagination takes them.
Inspiration for outdoor play
Let's get healthy with HENRY
A wide variety of easy healthy recipes for groups to download for families to be able to cook at home with their 0-3s.
These HENRY top tips and guidance will give you lots of ideas for tasty, healthy snacks for 0-3s that you can provide when you have a break at your sessions.
Babies and young children need plenty of chances to explore the world around them in an active way. Check out these activities via HENRY using everyday items.
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The Happy Early Years (HEY!) Fund enables parents, grandparents & other adult carers in the Better Start Bradford area to apply for up to £2,500 to develop ideas and initiatives for local families and their 0-3s.
Early childhood development broken down into simple steps, with activities and resources galore for families and the workforce alike.
