Sunflower is a parent led Community Interest Company founded by two parents with over 20 years of working and volunteering for SEND charities between them. The idea was to create our own organisation that focused on the wellbeing of parents and carers of children with SEND (aged 0-25). We started our first coffee morning in March 2025. Since then, we have run biweekly meet ups for parents during term times and family events during the holidays. As a new organisation we are learning and adapting as we go and are incredibly excited by how things have gone so far!
Our current services are as follows:
These are our bi-weekly parent sessions held at North Library. They run every other Tuesday from 10am-12pm. From January 2026 we will run these sessions by alternating between ‘fun sessions’ i.e. Crafts and wellbeing activities, and informative sessions i.e. speakers from local services and workshops. Please check our events page for dates and activities for each session.
These events aim to include the whole family, siblings as well, with limited age restriction (depending on the location). Events like this take place during the longer school holidays (i.e. easter, summer, Christmas). There will be no Christmas event this year, but we hope to have something spectacular for 2027! Parent/ carers are responsible for their children at all times during these events.
As we grow as an organisation, we hope to add more services and events, please let us know if you have any suggestions on what type of things could benefit your family.