FLOC

21/10/2026

Have you been meaning to come for months?

FLOC Frome is a monthly meet-up for parents and carers of children with additional needs. No diagnosis needed. Parents who get it, a warm cup of tea, and no pressure to talk. You can simply sit, listen, and relate.

🗓️ Next meet-up: Wednesday 28 October
⏰ 7:45–8:45pm
📍 The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS

A small donation (£2–5) covers the room and the tea, but money should be never the reason someone can't come. Our door is open, always. 💚

Not sure yet? Email [email protected] and ask us anything.

Know a Frome parent who needs this? Send it on.

19/10/2026

Waiting for permission to rest? Consider it granted. 💚

The emails, the forms and the washing will all still be there tomorrow. Your wellbeing is allowed to be on the list too.

Save this for the day you need it, and send it to the parent who’s running on empty.

🔗 Find your FLOC: https://www.floc.org.uk/

15/10/2026

You don't have to say a word.

The thought of having to talk is what keeps a lot of us away from a first meet-up. A room full of strangers, and being asked to explain your whole life. No thanks. We've been there.

So at FLOC, you can just turn up. Sit. Drink the tea. Listen. Talk when you're ready, or never. Both are fine.

Our meet-ups are run by parents who've been through it, for anyone raising a child with additional needs, disability or sensitivity. No diagnosis needed.

A small donation (£2–5) covers the room and the tea, but money should be never the reason someone can't come. Our door is open, always. 🧡

Come as you are. Connection changes everything.

🔗 Send us a DM or find out more here: https://www.floc.org.uk/meet-ups

13/10/2026

Find your FLOC.

Monthly meet-ups for parents and carers of children with additional needs, disability or sensitivity. No diagnosis needed.
Frome, Queen Camel, Bruton and online. Come as you are. No pressure to talk.

Next ones:
🧡 Queen Camel: Wed 14 October
💙 Online: Mon 19 October
💚 Frome: Wed 28 October
💛 Bruton: Mon 2 November

7:45–8:45pm, except online, which is 8–9pm so you can join from the sofa or the car. Led by parents who get it, so you won't have to explain yourself. Again.

Not sure yet? Email [email protected] to register, or just ask us anything.

Connection changes

🔗 https://www.floc.org.uk/

10/10/2026

Nobody tells you this part of caring for a child with additional needs. The forms. The waiting. The 2am worrying. The "I'm fine" that really means "I'm not".

We've lived all of it. So today, for World Mental Health Day, here's some of what we don't say out loud but have all experienced.

And since nobody else is asking: how are you? Really.

FLOC was started by parents who've been there, because we needed it. Monthly meet-ups, a warm cup of tea, people who get it, no pressure to talk.

Swipe, save it for a hard day, or send it to the parent who's holding it all together.

Find your FLOC.
🔗 Send us a DM or reach out via our website: https://www.floc.org.uk/

30/07/2026

19/01/2026

Please can we tell you about FLOC, a newly launched Community Interest Company supporting parents and carers of children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) across Somerset.

FLOC stands for Freeing Loneliness, Offering Community. We’re currently serving 50+ families through monthly meet-ups in Bruton, Frome, and online.

Our story:
FLOC was founded by Amelia an Katie two Somerset parents frustrated by the loneliness of navigating SEND alone. What started as informal meet-ups has now become a registered CIC with evidence-based programmes helping families move from isolation to connection.

With 1 in 5 children now identified as having SEND and diagnosis waiting times of 1-5 years in Somerset, the need for peer support has never been greater.

02/10/2025

💙 How FLOC Began

Back in May at Bruton Boost set up and held by , something special happened.

We set up a table in the community hall, not really knowing if anyone would come. But they did. Parents and carers who’d been carrying so much alone, finally came together.

The conversations that day reminded us why community matters. Why being seen and heard by people who truly get it can change everything.

What started as one afternoon has grown into monthly meetups, online sessions, and now our first parent wellbeing course.

Every first Monday of the month, we gather at Bruton Community Hall. Sometimes there are tears, sometimes laughter, but we’re in it together.

If you’d told me in May that we’d build this - I’m not sure I would have believed it. But here we are 💙

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey from the beginning. And if you’re just finding us now - welcome.

Next session: Monday 6th October, 7:30pm
Bruton Community Hall, Silver St