Lift a Parent.
Raise a Child.

Join us in giving children across Worcestershire and
Herefordshire the chance they deserve. Together, we can
strengthen families, and strengthen our communities.

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Infant Massage
in Redditch

Help your baby to relax and sleep well. Reduce your
baby's crying and ease discomfort from wind and colic.
Book your place today on our Redditch Infant Massage.

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Mindful Movement
Pregnancy Yoga

Join us in Redditch for a unique and immersive experience
that combines evidence-based mindful practice and yoga.
Build safety and connection in your body.

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Mindful Movement
Postnatal Yoga

Join us in Redditch for a unique and immersive experience
that combines evidence-based mindful practice and yoga.
Build safety and connection in your body.

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Nurture Outdoor Kindergarten
in Worcestershire

Our nature nurseries provide early education
for children aged 9 months to 5 years old.

2 to 5 year olds0 to 2 year olds

Our Mission

Nurture Families empowers families with children, before birth and throughout their early years, by supporting parent-child relationships and advancing quality early education and care to help improve life outcomes for children.

Investments in Early Childhood have lifelong impact

Investments in Early Childhood provide a 13% annual return on investment through better outcomes in education, health, employment and social wellbeing. It is a unique period of opportunity.

Return on Investment

13% ANNUAL RETURN
Prenatal
0 - 3 YO
4 - 5 YO
5+ YO

Our Approach

Our approach to early education and care is rooted in place-based programme development, research and policy so that children, families and early childhood practitioners can flourish.
WHAT WE DO

Early Childhood Programmes

We work on the ground with families in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, providing pregnancy support programmes, home visiting, parent-infant therapy, and quality early learning.

WHAT WE DO

Professional Development

Early Childhood Practitioners work closely with children and families. Their influence and input is far reaching and has high impact. Nurture Families has developed training programmes that help practitioners to build practices that transform education and care for all children and families.

WHAT WE DO

Partnership Working

We are passionate about fostering partnerships to create a strong and sustainable Early Childhood ecosystem for children and families. We know that we have greater impact when we come together. By sharing and learning from one another, we can only do better. Our collaborative approach aims to accelarate learning and impact.

Nurture Families Roadmap

From our roots directly serving families and children in Worcester, we have expanded to impact more families with young children and Early Childhood practitioners across Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
Nurture Outdoor Kindergarten Launched
We launched Worcestershire's first outdoor Early Childhood provider for 2 to 5 year olds.
August 2017
A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach
Our journey into parent-infant studies begins with practitioners at Nurture Outdoor Kindergarten gaining PG Dip/MA in Working with Children, Young People and Families: A psychoanalytic observational approach.
Parent-Child Groups Launched
Nurture parent-child groups enter their official launch phase in 2017. This enabled us to grow our impact through parent-child groups at Nurture Outdoor Kindergarten for ages 0 to 3 years old.
July 2018
First Nature Nurtures Conference
Our first annual conference for parents and Early Childhood practitioners. With expert speakers, our unique conferences aim to support the healthy development of children and parents.
Responsive Pregnancy Support
Being responsive to community need during the Covid-19 pandemic, we developed and deployed a pregnancy support programme offering direct support to at-risk women.
September 2020
Growing Change Project Research
Putting parents at the centre of Early Childhood solutions, we tested a co-production model with families following a local needs analysis.
Connecting Communities
Collaborations and partnerships are launched to enable the co-produced programmes under the Growing Change Project.
February 2015
A Psychoanalytic Observational Approach
Our journey into parent-infant studies begins with practitioners at Nurture Outdoor Kindergarten gaining PG Dip/MA in Working with Children, Young People and Families: A psychoanalytic observational approach.
August 2017
September 2017
First Nature Nurtures Conference
Our first annual conference for parents and Early Childhood practitioners. With expert speakers, our unique conferences aim to support the healthy development of children and parents.
July 2018
March 2020
Growing Change Project Research
Putting parents at the centre of Early Childhood solutions, we tested a co-production model with families following a local needs analysis.
September 2020
September 2022

Our Impact

We focus solely on the first years of a child’s life, starting before birth, to have the most significant impact on children and families.
01

Early Childhood Programmes

We directly deliver quality programs that support the healthy development of children and parents.
02

Professional Development

We develop and deploy innovative programmes with our communities to build a stronger early childhood workforce and enable policymakers to build equitable systems.
03

Early Childhood Ecosystem

We connect communities to share knowledge and accelerate progress.

“Young children experience their world as an environment of relationships, and these relationships affect virtually all aspects of their development.”

- National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (USA)

Parent-Infant Relationship Team

Research overwhelmingly finds what happens in a child’s earliest years is the most important for healthy development and long-term well-being. A unique window of opportunity lies is the earliest years - change the first years of child's life and you change everything.

And change starts with us, the adults. A large body of research shows that a child's long-term emotional and social wellbeing is inextricably linked to the wellbeing and mental health of their parents. By supporting parents, we can better support children. And when those children become adults, their children do better.

Read about our 10-year strategy that includes shifting resource to early intervention with a new community-based parent-infant relationship team.

Support Our Work

Together, we can bring about ambitious change to secure better and brighter life outcomes for all children.

Resources for Families

Resources from our parent-infant relationship team that give parents the tools they need to help their children thrive in those critical early years.

Resources for Professionals
From online courses to in-person events, we support early childhood practitioners in building responsive and powerful practices that transform family support and early education.
Get Involved
Together, we can bring about ambitious change to secure better and brighter life outcomes for all children.