Elsie Normington Foundation

12/02/2026

🧹 WE’RE HIRING – FULL TIME CLEANER 🧹

We’re looking for a dedicated Cleaner to join the team at the Haven Centre!

📍 Haven Centre (Playcentre, Haven Suites & Haven Café)
🕒 37.5 hrs per week
💷 £24,784.50 per year

You’ll help us keep our centre safe, welcoming and hygienic for children with complex needs, families, guests and staff.

✨ Professional cleaning experience preferred
✨ Supportive team environment
✨ Meaningful community impact

To apply email rona.matheson@enfoundation.co.uk for more details and an application form.
Closing date: 27th February 2026 at 5pm

27/01/2026

📣2026 Haven Hub opens up this Thursday . 👇👇👇👇👇👇
With

Thriving Families
Connecting Carers
Snap Inverness

Haven Cafe Entrance -10 am - 11:30am

16/01/2026

Thank you to HBW for hosting today’s event and for the opportunity to attend the announcement of their Charity Partner for 2026.

Congratulations to Inverness Women's Aid on being named Charity of the Year.

15/01/2026

We know many families are feeling worried after recent coverage about SNAP and the Haven Centre, and we want to acknowledge those concerns.

We’ve now shared an update on our website to explain where things stand, what is still being discussed, and what has yet to be decided.

And as always, we are doing this with care for the children, young people and the families who sit at the heart of this.

At this stage we would like to acknowledge that SNAP has not been told to leave the Haven Centre, and discussions are ongoing.

You can read the full update and Q+A here:
🔗 https://enfoundation.co.uk/an-update-for-families-about-the-haven-centre-and-snap/

We’ll continue to share clear updates directly through our own channels as conversations continue.

14/01/2026

ENF update

Since opening in 2023, The Haven Centre, delivered by the Elsie Normington Foundation, has become a safe, welcoming space for many families in our community.

However, by listening to the voices of families, with Disabilities and the professionals and support services of complex needs who have reached out about access to the Playcentre, it’s clear that there’s an exciting opportunity to support more children and families through a more open model.

For this reason, from 27 March 2026, the Playcentre will begin transitioning to a shared, managed model, with sessions coordinated in-house by ENF. This will include bookings for day services, parties and play sessions.

As we plan for this next step, please know that we remain grateful for all the work the SNAP team has done within the Playcentre, and look forward to continuing to work with them as this next chapter begins.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please email info@enfoundation.co.uk

13/01/2026

We are so grateful to "The Three Witches Inverness" .
Supporting ENF Haven Centre over the past months - Thank you also to their wonderful customers who donated into

-The ENF charity bucket raising an amazing £187.39. 🪣

13/01/2026

We are so thankful to everyone for all the donations put in our collection box in The Haven Cafe
Total raised £103.08

07/01/2026

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

We are honoured and delighted to share that the Elsie Normington Foundation has been shortlisted for the Highland Business Women along side 4 other fantastic highland charities for Charity of the Year 2026!

Being recognised in this way is a wonderful acknowledgment of the incredible work our team, volunteers, supporters, and community make possible every day. 💛

Thank you to everyone who makes our mission possible – we couldn’t do it without you!

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30/12/2025

🌳❤️ Giving Tree of Love & Remembrance at The Haven Cafe

❤️🌳 As we begin a new year — and with Valentine’s Day around the corner — we’re creating a space to honour the people who hold pieces of our hearts.
This tree is for:
✨those we love
✨ those we miss
✨ those who are far away
✨ those we carry in our memories

If you’d like to add someone to the tree, you can:
💬 Comment their name below
✉️ Message us privately
🤍 Or simply write “For someone special”
We will physically add a red heart to our Giving Tree at The Haven Cafe — with their name (or no name if you prefer).
❤️ Every heart placed will help raise money for the Elsie Normington Foundation, supporting the incredible work caring for children and young people with complex needs. 🤝

Suggested donation is £10
https://enfoundation.co.uk/donate/