National Adoption Week - Time For a Story

[geoff parcell]

Best-selling authors and famous local people are backing Somerset County Council’s campaign to recruit more adopters during National Adoption Week (4-10 November 2013).

Terry Pratchett and Sir Ranulph Fiennes are among those who have backed the ‘Time for a Story’ campaign by sharing their favourite memory of reading a children’s story with a loved one.

Sharing a great children’s book can create some of the most magical moments of both childhood and parenting. The ‘Time for a Story’ campaign aims to get people talking about these special moments and thinking about adoption.

To read the special memories, visit the Council’s Adoption in Somerset website: www.adoptioninsomerset.org.uk Members of the public are also being encouraged to post their own fondest moments of being read to or reading to their child on www.facebook.com/AdoptioninSomerset where people can also vote for Somerset’s favourite children’s story.

Two Adoption information events are being held in Somerset during National Adoption Week. These are an opportunity to find out about adoption, ask the Council’s Adoption Team questions and speak to adopters about what it is really like to adopt.
• Monday 4 November, 7-9pm, at the Holiday Inn, Taunton
• Wednesday 6 November, 7-9pm, at Northover Manor Hotel, Ilchester

To find out more come along to an information event or visit www.adoptioninsomerset.org.uk or call 0800 587 9900 for an information pack.

Join ‘Adoption in Somerset’ on Facebook and follow on Twitter @adoptsomerset.