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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

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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

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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

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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

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Cheltenham / Arts and Crafts - Children's Activities - Faith and Spirituality - Sports and Leisure - Wellbeing

Evening / Community Groups

Mondays: Afterschool Kids Cooking Club for school years 3,4 & 5. 3:30 – 4:30pm Space 51 – Youth Club for school years 8 – 11+. 7-8:30 pm Tuesdays: TNT – Youth Club for school years 5-7. 6-7:30 pm Wednesdays: Archery for school years 6-11. 6-7:30 pm Thursdays: SAS (scoot & skate) for school years 6-11. […]

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The Rock

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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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Gloucester / Food and Drink - Parks and Green Spaces - Sports and Leisure - Wellbeing

“Tennisability” Coaching at Oxstalls Sports Park, Gloucester

https://aspiretrust.org.uk/tennis/tennis-general Indoor courts at Oxstalls Sports Park Welcome sign and path leading to Oxstalls Sports Park Oxstalls delivers a weekly, award winning disability tennis programme, “Tennisability” with specialist coaches and all equipment provided. All sessions pay & play. Timetable: Mondays: Adult Wheelchair Tennis 8.30-9.30pm £9.00 Emma and Paul 2 adult wheelchair tennis players Tuesdays: Visually […]

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Oxstalls Sports Park

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Stroud / Performing Arts - Social Interest Groups - Wellbeing

New Voices Aphasia Choir

ReConnect Gloucestershire’s popular singing group for people affected by aphasia.  Every other Thursday, 1:45-3:30pm at Rodborough Community Hall. It’s a small friendly group to meet people who have shared experiences. We always have tea and cake and suggest and sing songs from the old days and more recent ones, led by a qualified music therapist […]

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ReConnect Gloucestershire

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Tewkesbury / Wellbeing

Tewkesbury Stroke Group

ReConnect Gloucestershire have spaces available for Stroke survivors at our monthly group on Wednesdays, 2-4pm at Clee House. It’s a small friendly group to meet people who have shared experiences. We always have tea and cake and sometimes play board games, quizzes or crafts. We also plan group trips to visit interesting places across Gloucestershire. […]

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ReConnect Gloucestershire

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Dursley / Wellbeing

Cam Stroke Group

ReConnect Gloucestershire have spaces available for Stroke survivors at our fortnightly group on Tuesdays, 2-4pm at Coaley Community Shop. It’s a small friendly group to meet people who have shared experiences. We always have tea and cake and sometimes play board games, quizzes or crafts. We also plan group trips to visit interesting places across […]

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ReConnect Gloucestershire

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