Starcatchers is working with local nurseries in Helensburgh, to deliver Wee People, Big Feelings, an emotional literacy training programme for early years practitioners. 

This programme is developed from Starcatchers’ Wee People, Big Feelings project, a programme working with forces families with wee ones from two years old to age five, and practitioners in Scots Corner to explore how creativity can help early years children to understand and express their feelings. Now, the project has been reimagined for Helensburgh’s Naval families, locally and in surrounding areas.

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust has funded Argyll and Bute Council and Starcatchers to work in partnership to offer training opportunities to the early years workforce who work with Naval families, stationed at HM Naval Base Clyde. The training programme includes mentoring sessions in four local nurseries with Starcatchers Artists working directly with the staff and little ones.