Collect of articles, updates and resources shared by the You're Welcome team.
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Soft Play – 3 Tier with Hoist
An extensive 3-tier activity suite with overhead hoist designed to stimulate the imagination and encourage exercise through play. It includes steps, slides, obstacles and hiding places. This is available outside of school hours and during school holidays 10-5pm Available on a Thursday morning term-time. Private hire available – see website https://www.chamwellcentre.org.uk/booking-page
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Mix & Mash Week February half-term
Our next Mix & Mash week will run from 12th–16th February 2024 from 10am-3pm every day at our inclusive music Hub in Gloucester. A week of music-making aimed at those with additional needs but open to all, especially those who may not have previously considered themselves musical. Its emphasis is on providing adaptive musical equipment and inclusive activities […]
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IncDrop
IncDrop is our inclusive after-schools club for young people with additional needs. Feel free to bring your family an friends along too! Date: every Tuesday (during term-time) Time: 4.30pm-6pm Price: £4 Location: The Hub, Gloucester, GL1 1RP Come and make music in a friendly relaxed atmosphere with access to all of our assistive technology, sensory […]
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Mix & Mash October Halloween Beats & Bleeps
Mix & Mash week October Half-Term will run from 30th October-3rd November from 10am-3pm every day at our inclusive music Hub in Gloucester. A week of music-making aimed at those with additional needs but open to all, especially those who may not have previously considered themselves musical. Its emphasis is on providing adaptive musical equipment and inclusive […]
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Halloween Coffee Morning
Halloween themed coffee morning on our smallholding. With Trick or Treat Scavenger Hunt, lots of yummy treats and optional fancy dress. Open to all, the coffee morning will be held on our Smallholding in Lower Lydbrook, from 10am-12pm on October 25th 2023. We have good car parking and the site is level and wheelchair accessible […]
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Drawn to Water: Quentin Blake at WWT
Reimagine the wonder of wetlands and nature through the eyes of the UK’s best loved illustrator. Collect an illustrated guide full of Quentin Blake’s drawings and journey around our wonderful wetland world this summer. New seasonal trails will be launched later in the year, each with a different illustrated guide to collect and keep. We’ve […]
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Massage Therapy
Massage therapy can work wonders for everyone! We offer holistic massage treatment to help you feel relaxed and also to best support your body. Our massage therapist Charlotte can ensure treatment is specific to you to help you feel most relaxed and supported. Whether you need support with hoisting or perhaps to have massage in […]
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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 […]