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Welcome to the Get SET! Guide for Parent & Toddler GroupsThe Get SET! Guide aims to support everyone involved in parent ...
07/09/2026

Welcome to the Get SET! Guide for Parent & Toddler Groups

The Get SET! Guide aims to support everyone involved in parent and toddler groups with practical advice and ways to help all groups flourish in their local area. The resource brings together experience, passion and encouragement to start or develop a parent and toddler group, bringing together safeguarding, intergenerational activities and planning all into one guide while still keeping focussed on nurturing relationships.

On this page you will find the complete guide as well as the individual sections to use in your local space.

A set of editable forms and documents – including a session register, welcome leaflet, and Group Expectations – are also available in the Appendices.

We are extremely grateful to the large team of writers, reviewers, editors and designers who have been involved in this project and our hope is that Get SET! will be a living document that can be updated and added to as required.

We hope that you will enjoy reading and exploring the Get SET! Guide over the coming days and find in it some practical tips and new ideas that will enable your group to continue nurturing relationships with the people in your community and to share the good news of Jesus with them.

Get SET! aims to support everyone involved in parent and toddler groups with practical advice and ways to help these groups flourish in your local area

05/09/2026

A swoop of loveliness!

Get Set! Conference.Afternoon Workshops with Anna Hawken Parenting For Faith - BRF, Jo Gordon at 1277, Steve Bunting Kid...
05/09/2026

Get Set! Conference.
Afternoon Workshops with Anna Hawken Parenting For Faith - BRF, Jo Gordon at 1277, Steve Bunting Kids Matter and Karen Edwards Salvation Army Community Services.

Get Set! Conference.It’s workshop time with Caroline Montgomery from Refresh, Becki Bibko from Growing Hope, Deb Juster ...
05/09/2026

Get Set! Conference.
It’s workshop time with Caroline Montgomery from Refresh, Becki Bibko from Growing Hope, Deb Juster from Family Ministries and Mark Chester from Who Let the Dads Out Care for the Family.

Get Set! Conference is underway and a rich and encouraging morning so far with gathering, worshiping, sharing wisdom in ...
05/09/2026

Get Set! Conference is underway and a rich and encouraging morning so far with gathering, worshiping, sharing wisdom in the room with key notes from Major David Betteridge and Richard Bradbury and Steve Bunting from Kids Matter.

Today we are getting set for the Get SET! Parent and Toddler Group Conference tomorrow at William Booth College. We look...
04/09/2026

Today we are getting set for the Get SET! Parent and Toddler Group Conference tomorrow at William Booth College.

We look forward to sharing the day with our guests and delegates, and ask that you all please pray for this special day of celebration and learning. Thank you 🙏🎉

You can also join in by listening to our playlist for the day available on Spotify 🎶
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ByDHaZzE9GPDBHyaMTEyC?si=2Xf_XB4NTXKPDX9G13K1GQ&utm_source=copy-link&pi=BB25_EJEQje2h

The Christian Grandparents National Conference 2026 is happening on Saturday 3rd October 2026 with the theme “Connected:...
02/09/2026

The Christian Grandparents National Conference 2026 is happening on Saturday 3rd October 2026 with the theme “Connected: God’s design for grandparents."

It’s a day of worship, encouragement, practical ideas and connection—helping Christian grandparents nurture faith across the generations.

From 10.30am–4.30pm, at the Milton Keynes Christian Centre.

For further information and booking details, please click the link below.

https://whttps://www.christiangrandparents.co.uk/event-details/the-christian-grandparents-national-conference-2026

Connected: God's design for grandparents. Join together with other grandparents to stand in the gap for your grandchildren, be encouraged and equipped to support your children and grandchildren.

Thank you to our friends at Parenting For Faith - BRF for sharing this guidance for families dealing with questions abou...
29/08/2026

Thank you to our friends at Parenting For Faith - BRF for sharing this guidance for families dealing with questions about what happened at the Big Church Festival yesterday.

Our prayers are with everyone involved 🙏

We are so sad to hear about what happened at Big Church Festival yesterday.

Our hearts are with the person who died and their family and friends, with those who were injured, and with everyone who was there and witnessed what happened or is processing the news of hearing about it afterwards.

And we’ve been thinking particularly about the children and teenagers involved and the parents and carers who are supporting them.

Because they might be feeling all sorts of things today.

They might be frightened or upset. They might be asking questions you don't know how to answer. They might be desperately disappointed that a weekend they’d been looking forward to has suddenly ended.

They might be all of those things.

Or they might seem completely fine and want to talk about something else.

If you're alongside a child or teenager who is trying to make sense of what happened, you don't need to have a brilliant conversation about it. You don't need to explain everything. And you certainly don't need to have all the answers.

You can just be with them.

Listen to what they've heard. Ask what they're thinking. Let them ask the awkward questions. Say “I don't know” when you don't know.

And perhaps, in the middle of it, you can chat to God together too.

Not with a carefully constructed prayer. Just honestly.

“God, this is really sad.”

“I don't understand why this happened.”

“Please look after the people who are hurt.”

“I'm disappointed that we can't stay.”

“Why did you let this happen?”

You can ask him questions or just leave space for God to communicate to you and your child or teenager.

And if your child doesn't want to talk about it? That's okay too. You can leave the door open and come back to it another time.

We're praying today for everyone affected by what happened, and particularly for the children and young people who are making sense of it in their own way.

Our friends in Older People's Ministries UKI have shared this lovely story from our Corps at Braintree in Essex where ch...
25/08/2026

Our friends in Older People's Ministries UKI have shared this lovely story from our Corps at Braintree in Essex where children at the summer cooking programme spent a day learning new skills making quiche and cupcakes from scratch. They then served them to many people in their community.

This is a wonderful example of different generations enjoying being together ❤️

Children at our Braintree church spent a day learning new cooking and baking skills.

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