Collect of articles, updates and resources shared by the You're Welcome team.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Access Bike – Creative Sustainability
Access Bike is a youth space based at a community bike workshop where young people come together to build, repair and up-cycle old bikes. The Access Bike Project aims to remove the financial barriers to owning and maintaining a bike. The project revolves around refurbishing donated bikes and selling them at affordable prices. We also provide free access to our workshop space, bike-stands, […]
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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 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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3rd Space – Creative Sustainability
3rd Space Youth Project What is 3rd Space? Well it’s not home and it’s not school/college. It’s the 3rd place that you need in your life – a safe, supported space for young people 16-25 to explore their potential in different ways, underpinned by our three core values of Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability. Young people can join […]
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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 […]
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 […]