Dads and Babies Group - Edinburgh

Who We Help, Why We Help & the Difference It Makes

What We Do

Dads Rock offers practical family support to Dads/carers, children and families to ensure they have the strongest relationships they can. We want Dads confidence to increase so children have better care and relationships with their fathers. We help Dads understand how important their support is to both mum and baby and support young dads in learning to become a good parent. We do this through various services (Please click on the green links for further details)

PS Dads Rock

It's a national service to support Dads in the Perinatal stage who feel their mental health could be better (Perinatal is from when you first learn you are going to be a Dad and up to your babies first birthday).

Matching Dads with highly-trained peer support volunteers, who are more experienced Dads, to give emotional support during this life changing time. 

Click here to find out more, or to volunteer as a perinatal peer support volunteer

Parenting Workshops

We run a range of parenting workshops to help support Dads and Mums. Currently offering: Antenatal, First Aid, Hairstyle and Sleep workshops. Our workshops are delivered both face to face and online. They are open to all.

Dad's Stuff

Being a Dad can be brilliant, from time to time we all need somewhere to go for ideas of things to do with our children, so we thought it would help to collate info on some of our favourites to help you out. (Of course you can also come to our activities!)

Volunteer

Thanks for your interest in Dads Rock we would be delighted for you to help us out in some way!

Volunteer

There are several ways we need volunteers to help us…

• Help at events  – sign up as Kilties at  Kiltwalk events (nominate Dads Rock and we will receive £1.40 for every hour given), help out at our Halloween and Christmas parties
• Assistance with playgroups, run an art activity or game, preparing snacks, take photos for marketing, etc. (Saturdays and Sundays)
• Skills sessions for young dads – eg budgeting (evening or weekend)
• Sorting and refurbishing play equipment and toys (any time)
• Marketing support – SEO, Blog advice, etc (any time)
• Strategic support – planning, administration, finance (any time)
• Google forms help (any time)

Please let me know if any of the above appeal to you all. [email protected]

Fundraise

Thank you for wanting to fundraise for us! Please get in touch by emailing your details and proposal for fundraising in more detail to [email protected]. We can help you co-ordinate your activity with our own and help you set up a personal fundraising site on our Just Giving page.

Charity of the Year

This partnership is an excellent way to support the work we do, whilst giving your teams a chance to raise vital funds for us, and learn more about the importance of Dads.  You will have a main contact, and we will work with you to create a bespoke package for your company.  

Gifts in Kind

You can support Dads Rock with gifts of equipment, materials, time and space.  Our playgroups make use of a lot of toys and equipment throughout the year, it could be as simple as extra paper, children's paint or pencils to draw with. 

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