{"id":18088,"date":"2019-11-26T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=18088"},"modified":"2019-11-26T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:01:13","slug":"east-belfast-sure-start-families-enjoy-a-magical-christmas-experience-at-titanic-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/11\/east-belfast-sure-start-families-enjoy-a-magical-christmas-experience-at-titanic-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"East Belfast Sure Start Families Enjoy A Magical Christmas Experience at Titanic Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Local Sure Start families had the chance to enjoy some festive cheer at the exclusive launch of Titanic Belfast\u2019s A Magical Christmas Experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evelyn Erhabor and her children Amy, Danielle and Isiah from Sure Start, are pictured with one of Titanic Belfast\u2019s Magical Christmas Experience\u2019s elves. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

15 families were invited by East Belfast\u2019s Sure Start to see Father Christmas arrive and launch A Magical Christmas Experience. They were the first to step through the Old Curiosity Shop to enter into the Elves\u2019 Workshop, join Mrs Claus at her cosy kitchen, hear Christmas tales, enjoy festive games, badge making, look up their names on the naughty or nice list and meet Father Christmas himself.

Sure Start is a programme that works with families with children under the age of four in the 25% most disadvantaged areas in Northern Ireland.\u00a0 It aims to improve health, social development and the ability to learn by promoting parents\u2019 involvement.

Aware that Christmas can often be a difficult time, the event enabled these families to celebrate the joy of the festive season together, which the charity is passionate about. The charity is encouraging families to use Christmas as \u201canytime is chatting time\u201d this year. By smiling, talking, laughing, singing and sharing stories parents can help their development.

Sure Start East Belfast coordinator, Tracey Wilson, said: \u201cChristmas can be a difficult time and we are so grateful to Titanic Belfast for giving our Peer Support and Young Mums\u2019 families a break from the stress of the festive season through this unique event. The festive season can be a wonderful time for families to be together and create some lovely memories, like this event did. It is also the perfect opportunity to talk to your child, sing songs and read stories, which will not only help them learn to talk and concentrate but also make friends, <\/strong>so this Christmas, we are encouraging everyone to make anytime chatting time.\u201d

Titanic Belfast\u2019s Chief Executive, Judith Owens, commented: \u201cChristmas is a truly magical time of year and our Experience is all about embracing festive cheer and creating unique memories. We are really pleased to host local families from Sure Start together and hope we have added something special to the lives of these very deserving families!\u201d


Titanic Belfast\u2019s Magical Christmas Experience runs until 23 December, to book, visit www.titanicbelfast.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local Sure Start families had the chance to enjoy some festive cheer at the exclusive launch of Titanic Belfast\u2019s A Magical Christmas Experience. 15 families were invited by East Belfast\u2019s Sure Start to see Father Christmas arrive and launch A Magical Christmas Experience. They were the first to step through the Old Curiosity Shop to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18092,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions\/18092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}