(Some of) What we did this week…

• Continued to supporting our groups in preparing for 6 x June meals 🥗
• Commenced work writing our annual report and preparing our annual accounts 📚
• Furthered planning and preparation for Refugee Week next month 🧡

📖 Submit your recipes!

We’re delighted to share that we’ve published a new toolkit in the handbook which sets out a clearer process for submitting new recipes to the recipe catalogue:

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Note: the link might say ‘no access’ but you’ll be able to open it if you’re logged into Notion on the device you’re using.

🧠 Reminder: We’re now offering Reflective Practice Sessions for Leaders!

Following our work with YMCA Leicestershire last year with the ambition to become a more trauma informed organisation, we are delighted to start offering quarterly Reflective Practice Sessions for our leaders 💜

These sessions will be an opportunity to:

• Pause and check in with yourself, and other leaders
• Share, reflect and have your experiences of being a leader listened to, whilst in a supportive space with peers
• Discuss and exchange potential solutions to try out, which you can reflect and feed back on at the next session

Our first 50 min session will be on 11th June at 05:30pm (instead of leader check-in), and you can book on here: https://calendly.com/localwelcome/reflective-practice-sessions?month=2025-06

Please note - these sessions are not compulsory, but we would love to see as many of you benefit from them as possible!

If you would like to find out more before booking on, please don't hesitate to contact us 😊

(Some of) What we’re doing next week…

• Celia and Andrew are both taking some annual leave - Andrew is enjoying time with his new family, and Celia is going on holiday with her new husband! ☀️
• Hannah will be focusing on supporting groups in the run up to June meals 🍜