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Stonehouse / Social Interest Groups

The Door Youth Club (Pod Stonehouse)

A safe and inclusive space to hang out with your friends. You have a range of activities including table tennis, games consoles, cooking and music. Meets every Tuesday 3.30-5.30 for all young people aged 11-17.

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The Door Youth Project

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Gloucestershire / Arts and Crafts - Attractions and Days Out - Children's Activities - Gardens and Nature - Historic buildings - Parks and Green Spaces - Play Areas - Wellbeing

Wild Winter at Slimbridge

Winter is a fantastic time to visit Slimbridge with up to 30,000 wild wintering ducks, geese and swans feeding and roosting on the reserve. Look out for star species: Bewick’s swans, white-fronted geese, lapwing, water rail, curlew. Enjoy the following winter activities included in admission:  – Wild Bird Feeds | Daily at 4pm  See flocks […]

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WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre

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Gloucestershire / Arts and Crafts - Wellbeing

Confidence through Creativity – Free Employability courses 2023

Our Confidence through Creativity Summer 2023 programme has launched! Art Shape are offering 8 week courses designed to support your wellbeing, whilst making plans towards your next steps. Visit our Confidence through Creativity page to book your place Would you benefit from a relaxed, creative space where you can develop employability skills? Join our FREE […]

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Art Shape

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Forest of Dean / Parks and Green Spaces - Sports and Leisure

Swimming and Jumping

Orchard Trust has a fully accessible Therapy Suite on its peaceful, rural Stowfield Site. This houses a hydrotherapy pool with a counter current current massage unit and colourful lights and a Rebound trampoline. There are private changing rooms with hoist access and space to store wheelchairs when you are in the pool or on the […]

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Orchard trust

Added 1 year ago

Forest of Dean / Farms and Zoos - Parks and Green Spaces - Play Areas

Have a go on the Activity Park

The Orchard Trust Stowfield site has it’s own activity park with swings, a roundabout and a floor trampoline. All are wheelchair accessible, there is also a small slide accessible by a shallow steps or a pull up pipe. The park sits on the wheelchair accessible site surrounded by nature and our friendly animals. Pay us […]

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Orchard trust

Added 1 year ago

Forest of Dean / Farms and Zoos - Parks and Green Spaces

Give some love to a Guinea Pig

The Orchard Trusts small animals include guinea pigs, rabbits and Speedy the tortoise. They all enjoy seeing visitors and having a cuddle. Come to our Stowfield site to see the animals, the small ones and the larger ones like Millie the pig and our sheep and goats. They’d love to see you. The whole site […]

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Orchard trust

Added 1 year ago

Forest of Dean / Farms and Zoos - Parks and Green Spaces

Walking with animals

Visitors to our Stowfield site can take a walk with a goat. Our pygmy goat family is very friendly and they all like to say hello when they see someone approach.  It is possible to walk them around the site or go into their paddock to help look after them too. The whole site is […]

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Orchard trust

Added 1 year ago

Stroud / Social Interest Groups - Sports and Leisure - Wellbeing

Creative Sustainability – Access Bike

A bike repair, recycle, reuse and reduce project in Stroud Come along and learn how to fix your own bike and help us fix up donated bikes to sell at low cost to the community. – Get the chance to learn more about bike maintenances and safety – Meet new people and have fun – Be […]

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Creative Sustainability CIC

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Forest of Dean / Children's Activities - Social Interest Groups

Specialist Music Sessions

These sessions are held on Fridays (term time only) from 3pm-5pm at Heart of the Forest School.  Young people get to enjoy activities such as soft play, sports, art and craft whilst waiting for their music session. The music sessions consist of small groups (approx 3-4 young people) with support from Forest Pulse staff and […]

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Forest Pulse

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Forest of Dean / Children's Activities - Social Interest Groups - Youth

Forest Friends

Forest Friends – 18-30 years old £4.01 per session (optional £1.20 for tuck) A weekly social/learning group for young people aged 18 and over.  Run in partnership with the Forest Youth Support Service, and meeting on Mondays 6.30-8.30pm, term time only, at the Main Place in Coleford.  Members get the chance to meet up with […]

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Forest Pulse

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Forest of Dean / Children's Activities - Social Interest Groups - Youth

Youth Club

Youth Club – 13 – 17 years old £4.01 per session (optional £1.20 for tuck) An integrated Youth Club held on Thursday evenings, 7.15-9.15pm, term time only at The Main Place, Coleford.  Open to any young person aged between 13 and 17 who lives in the Forest of Dean. A varied programme of activities including […]

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Forest Pulse

Added 1 year ago

Gloucester / Food and Drink

Community Lunch Group

Time: Every Monday with food served around 12.30pm. The group doesn’t run on bank holidays and sometimes other occasions. Contact: 01452 415900, gloucester@fairshares.org.uk Every Monday in the hall at The Friendship Cafe we run a community lunch group. Participants come together to enjoy a meal, talk about happenings, and find out what’s on at Fair […]

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Fair Shares Gloucestershire

Added 1 year ago