The Health & Social Care Volunteering Fund (within the Department of Health) funds our Healthy Start Mentors project in London which trains community volunteers to support parents with young children to provide them with a healthy start in life. You can read more about this project at www.henry.org.uk/stronger-and-healthier-communities.

HENRY group programmes for parents are offered free of charge in many Action for Children children’s centres. Action for Children are also partners on a grant from the Department for Education to train childminders and other childcare workers to provide a healthy start in their childcare settings. We are working with Action for children on other opportunites to support a healthy start in life.

the Big Lottery’s Reaching Communities fund supports our Parent champions projects in Leeds and Telford. This project develops and trains parent graduates from the HENRY Group Programme to initiate healthy lifestyle activities in their communities and offer peer-support to other parents to provide a healthy start for babies and young children. You can read more about this project at www.henry.org.uk/stronger-and-healthier-communities.

The King’s Fund awarded HENRY a 2014 GSK IMPACT Award for outstanding contribution to community health. As part of this award they made a film about HENRY’s work and provided training to HENRY senior managers as well as financial support. HENRY is now part of the GSK IMPACT Award network of small charities who have won awards in previous years.

Family support charity Family Lives is HENRY’s delivery partner for our Healthy Start Mentors project in London funded by HSCVF. Volunteer recruitment and coordination is provided by Family Lives and volunteer training is co-delivered by HENRY and Family Lives

HENRY works closely with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) to ensure our training is of the highest standard. All HENRY’s training programmes are accredited by the RSPH under the umbrella heading Tackling Child Obesity with HENRY. We have also collaborated on articles and features in the RSPH journal Perspectives in Public Health.

Reed Elsevier provide financial support through their Reed Elsevier Cares programme for HENRY’s 1-to-1 programme in Oxfordshire

Health and well-being brand Nutricentre have adopted HENRY as their charity partner and will be supporting HENRY to fundraise and develop parent resources

HENRY and Surrey Nurturing Links have worked together since the very early days of HENRY to deliver HENRY practitioner training and parent programmes in Surrey. Two of HENRY’s national trainers are from Surrey Nurturing Links and we continue to explore ways to work together

The evidence-based HENRY Group Programme is approved by the CANparent quality kitemark confirming that the programme can be relied on by parents to make a positive difference, is evidence based and is monitored and evaluated

They recognise the importance of tackling child obesity and are supporting HENRY with a financial contribution to core organisation running costs. Their generosity means we can direct other donations and grants to where they are most needed.