Salford Dadz - Little Hulton

We had great fun decorating our Mothers Day Gifts yesterday, here are a few of them, don't they look great! #GENERAL

Here is some of the wonderful Mothers day inspired clay work done by the kids today at our Saturday Dad's and Kids club. We aren't going to say whose is whose so it doesn't ruin the surprise though. The kids had a great time and really.enjoyed thinking about what they wanted to make. Next week, when they have dried, we will be painting them ready for Mothers Day. #GENERAL

A couple of our Dadz had a great time today telling first year child nursing students @ Salford University all about our work. We told them about the initial project, how it all started, what methods were used and how it grew. The audience were very welcoming and were interested in what we had to say. We explained the impact that our work has had on local men and how it can benefit others as well as discussing how dads can sometimes feel left out when discussing their childre

One of our dad's taught us how to make Rice Crispie Christmas trees today, the kids loved making them although we think that they will enjoy eating them even more. Look at how great our forest looks! #GENERAL

Over the last eighteen months Nesta and the Health Foundation have been working on Realising the Value which was designed to enable people to take an active role in their own health and care. Our friends at Unlimited Potential were a partner in this project and the work done with Salford Dadz played a role in this. Yesterday we attended the final event of this project in Manchester, one of our members was also a speaker at the event. He did brilliantly speaking in front of a

Salford Dadz - Little Hulton feature in a piece written by Jeremy Taylor in the Guardian this week. Jeremy is chief executive of National Voices, the national coalition of health and care charities in England and discusses how different approaches to healthcare should be treated seriously. You can find the article here https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2016/nov/03/we-cant-rely-on-the-same-old-care-service-models #GENERAL

The NHS Alliance website featured an article about us on 29th September last year written by Heather Henry the project manager from Unlimited Potential that managed the original project. You can read it here http://www.nhsalliance.org/salford-dadz-building-relationships-better-therapy/ #GENERAL

Well what a strange world! We made the cover of the Nursing Standard on 31st August 2016. There was a great two page article about us as well written by Heather Henry. Heather was the project manager who worked with us on the initial project back in 2013 and is now working on the Dadly Does It Project in Winton, Salford. You can read the online version of the article that was publiched online on 12th August 2016 here: https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/features/how-we-empowere