01/09/2026
🌸 Bumps & Babies Update 🌸
Good morning everyone! đź’›
Just a little update to let you know that, for the foreseeable future, we’ve decided not to run Bumps & Babies on Monday afternoons.
There are a few reasons behind the decision:
👶 Beehive on a Thursday morning now has a dedicated babies area, so after chatting with Pauline Sanderson and Rose Taylor, we felt we were beginning to duplicate what is already happening there.
👥 Numbers have been quite sporadic for some time. Some weeks we’ve had 3 or 4 people, while on other weeks we’ve set everything up and no one has come along.
🤝 Pauline and Rose aren’t able to commit to running the group every week, which makes it difficult to give the group the consistency it needs.
💛 Our new SWYM trainee Miriam will also have a different pattern of hours this year, as she’ll be spending some of her time on the worship stream, so we won’t have the same level of support we had last year.
🌱 Most importantly, we feel that Beehive is now the best place for parents and babies to connect. Being part of a larger group gives more opportunities to meet other parents, build friendships and take that first important step into the wider church community.
That said, this definitely isn’t goodbye forever! Bumps & Babies is a group that could easily be picked up and run again in the future if the opportunity arises.
It has been such a wonderful group over the years, originally started by Janice Stace and Pauline Sanderson, and we’re incredibly grateful for all the love, time and energy that has gone into making it what it has been. 💕
For now, we feel it’s reached a natural end to this particular chapter — and we’re excited to see what comes next
