We’ve launched our website!
We won’t be updating this blog any more but you can find a wealth of information about grandparenting at BeGrand.net along with a community of grandparents talking about the issues that matter to them. You can also get access to our online advisers who can deal with problems confidentially, 1-to-1. And you can get in touch with us and tell us what you think about the site – we’d love to know….
Thanks for sticking with us this far! We hope you like the new site.
Hello – it’s Sophie again. This time, I’m on the look out for a grandparent in the London-ish area doing the school run or minding their grandchild/ children.
We’re doing a news piece – (we’ll explain why later this weekend…..) about the important role grandparents play in children’s lives. But we need to find a grandparent who can be filmed this Monday morning, the 25th Jan. If you’d like to find out more – no obligation to take part – contact me on sophie.theunissen@begrand.net and I’ll tell you a bit more. (Oh yes, I will be checking my email all weekend!)
We’ve got another request for internet-active-grandparents…
The Department of Children, Schools and Families are looking for grandparentswho used the internet to resolve problems & issues to tell their stories for a short film.
They need to be stories directly related to grandparenting – it could be finding help and advice to deal with specific problems, discovering ways of keeping in touch with grandchildren, advice on working as a team with with parents – or just finding friends online who know how you feel and help you cope . They’re part of a series of short films that will inspire grandparents, amongst others, to get online.
If you’re interested in being involved please contact janeshackleton@wilderfilms.co.uk or give her a call on on 020 7631 3417.
There’s no commitment to being involved at this stage – she can explain more about it and find out if you’re interested. They’re filming between the 6th and 9th January – so you’d need to be available sometime then. As ever the way, they’d prefer someone in London/ the South East – but are interested in stories from all over. And looking out the window at the falling snow right now, who can blame them!
It’s that time of year – no, not Christmas, the BeGrand.net launch.
While the rest of the world thinks about slowing down for a few days, we will be working overtime to launch our new site early in 2010.
Keep talking to us and let us know what we can do for you.
Until then, Merry Christmas
