A families scheme in Witney is setting up special sessions for fathers.

Yolanda Hampshire is pictured with, from left, Isabelle Rainbow, Connor Hambidge and Finley Brown.

Yolanda Hampshire is now running the Witney Families Together project was set up by former Wood Green School pupil Louisa Holgate, who died earlier this year from cancer.

The project, which has received nearly £120,000 of National Lottery money, is based at the High Street Methodist Church.

Families Together already runs two drop-in sessions a week for mums, as well as a young mums group and outreach work to support them in their own homes.

The sessions are for dads to come along to the project's drop-in centre with their toddlers on two Saturdays a month. They start on November 9, running from 10am to noon, and aim to give fathers quality time with their children and a welcome break for mothers. Call 01993 774721 to book a place.

Miss Hampshire, 32, a former child care development officer for Oxfordshire County Council, took over last month. Ms Holgate died in April -- just hours after marrying her boyfriend, South African Eslo Coetzee, at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.