Developing the creative potential of young people, irrespective of their socio-economic environment or physical ability through practical engagement with circus and theatre arts. An extensive training programme offers ground and aerial skills, music, movement, mime and drama.
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Other Fun Things To Do
Here you'll find everything else from for your child from circus skills to disabled friendly camping to autism cookery schools. Great adventures are waiting to be discovered!
Free Tandem Bikes
How about trying our a tandem bike for free? Charlotte's Tandems loans bikes for free and UK wide.
The brilliant Charlotte’s Tandems lends tandems to (and only to) people with disabilities or special needs for free, who are unable to ride a bike safely on their own, so that they can enjoy the wonders of cycling. Their borrowers are both children and adults. Tandems are a fun and a safe way to get out and about as friends, a couple, family or group. They are available for hire for a couple of a months at a time.
Hydrotherapy Pools & Disability Swimming
Swimming is brilliant exercise, something the whole family can do together, and it’s great for kids with mobility issues. A few useful things to know before you go:
- Many swimming pools and leisure centres now do special swim sessions for the disabled and tend to make them extra fun with soft play, squirty things and other inflatable toys.
- Either you or a carer should be able to get a reduced or free adult ticket if taking a disabled child swimming. The ID required varies from pool to pool, however you should be able to use your local authority carers card. Alternatively use your Blue Badge or a DLA letter as ID.
- If your child has complex needs or a serious medical condition, you may be able to go to family swim sessions at Hospice hydro therapy pools.
- According to The Equalities Act 2010, it a legal requirement for clubs and leisure facilities to make ‘reasonable’ adjustments to include disabled swimmers. It’s worth making the management aware of any particular needs before getting in the pool, just in case they want to make extra life guard provision.
- You can find links to specialist swimwear on our shopping section.
More info about swimming...
- Swimming.org
- Information about disabled swimming.
- Read the ASA’s Inclusion of Swimmers with a Disability
- Swimming techniques-learn.com
- Advice about aspects of teaching someone with any kind of disability.
- ASA: Safeguarding Children with Disability in Swimming
- The ASA gives some brilliant guidance for swimming clubs.
Art Spider
Brilliant site from Mencap listings all kinds of arts opportunities for disabled people.
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Buddies
Buddies School Holiday Clubs: Provide a safe and secure environment for your child during school holidays, evenings and weekends to spend time with friends, experiencing new activities.
Clubs offer a range of activities for children to get involved in, from swimming and ice skating to days out to the zoo. Brothers and sisters can also attend the sessions.Buddies Go Camping: Buddies Go Camping is an inclusive weekend break for disabled children from 8 - 19.
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The BUILD Charity provides a wide range of opportunities ranging from youth clubs and youth activity schemes to a weekly social club (known as The Wednesday Club) as well as a range of community based activities with opportunities to take part in sport, gardening, outdoor and cultural activities as well as skills learning workshops.
Camboccia
Boccia is a paralympic sport open to people of all ages and all disabilities. It is the most inclusive sport based on throwing balls at a target. People who are unable to throw can be coached in using a boccia ramp.
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Community Foundation- outdoor pursuits centre
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DASH believes that Disability does not mean Inability, please look at the link for this group to see a huge variety of activities, help, advice and the chance to be part of something new. From an inclusive and adaptable Sunday youth club to team sports to days out, swimming sessions, reading and writing skills classes, line dancing, boccia the list goes on and on.
Disability Inclusion
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Go Kids Go! enables young wheelchair-users throughout the UK to become independently mobile. Their aim is to equip young wheelchair-users with the skills to help them reach their full potential and also to increase their confidence. The skills and support they offer through their free courses are unique, practical and fun and are important to allow parents/carers, siblings and friends to join in with the training, fun and games. They carry a stock of spare wheelchairs and are always available afterwards to provide advice and support as well as guidance in acquiring the most suitable wheelchair for each individual’s specific needs.
Gruesome Gastronome
Bringing new life to Kids Cookery Books... Our books and audio recordings will open a whole new appetite... laugh, learn, eat...
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The school provides cooking experiences for children including those with special needs. Children are also encouraged to develop healthy eating and an awareness of different cultures through food. They run after school and holiday clubs. Wheelchair friendly.
Max Card
Max Card gives children with complex needs, friends and family a free or discounted access to some of the most exciting attractions across the UK! Save money on great days out at castles, zoos, museums and more. Each card is valid for two years and permits two adults and two children entry to participating venues.
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The Mersea Island Festival has been an annual event each August at Essex Outdoors Mersea. The Festival aims to bring together young people with or without a physical or learning disability. The camps are ideal for Inclusive clubs, Phab and Gateway clubs, Youth Groups and families with disabled young people. They provide an opportunity to try out new activities, make new friends and have loads of fun!!!
Museum and Galleries In the Capital (Magic)
Organisation involving 14 London museums and galleries, promoting sign language and deaf accessible events.
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Help,advice and support for families with deaf children.Some services are support forums, specialist advice and acitvites plus information.There is also links to volunteer if you want to.
Nottinghamshire Wheelchair Basketball Association
They help and encourage children with a wide range of disabilities to enjoy a fast and exciting sport, played on the same courts with most of the same rules as "the running game".
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Youth club activities
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Services include daytime support services, support in the home and community, social enterprises, Domiciliary Services, supported living and a social club in the evening.
PASTEL
PASTEL provides a wide range of social, educational & learning, leisure & recreational opportunities. These meaningful activities offer new experiences to develop people's independence skills and group working. Projects have included: art, dance, drama, music, shadow puppetry, ball games and sports, food hygiene and preparation, film making, digital photography, ceramics and other fun indoor and outdoor activities.
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Schools' screenings, Autism friendly screenings, reminiscence archive film screenings, family events, subtitled screenings for deaf audiences & more.
Relaxation and self esteem classes for children of all ages and abilities. Sessions include games, stretching, breathing exercises, peer massage, affirmations and visualisations. Sessions help build self esteem and help children manage anxiety and stress.
SHABANG. Creating arts projects for children with disabilities/additional needs.
Sue's Direct Payments
Arts and crafts group
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A charity which works to make environments accessible to people with visual and other sensory impairments. They develop communications technologies plus interactive audio and tactile guides for places of interest.
The Lincolnsfields Children's Centre provide opportunities for children, young people and adults with or without special needs. They provide catered and self-catering residential accommodation to enable groups, under adult supervision, to spend time away from their urban environment, organising full-day holiday care during every school holiday for local families.
Unlocking the arts for all young people.
The Richard Overall Trust
They provide young disabled people with financial support to "enjoy and progress in their chosen sport".
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The Stuff
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Thrive meet weekly in play centre setting to provide disabled children with any condition a safe protective arena, they hire facilities exclusively so child or parents receive support and get to meet others in the same situation.
An audio description service for people with a visual impairment. The service provides audio description in theatres, museums, galleries and heritage sites. It also provides training in description and consultancy for theatres, museums, galleries and heritage sites wishing to make their service accessible through description.
