Book your child onto a free activity club and join the community litter pick this weekend

Basildon Council sent this bulletin at 18-08-2020 05:24 PM BST

Events and Leisure - 18 July

Book your child onto a free activity club

Heart of Pitsea are running free activity clubs for children between the ages of 5-10 this August. Places can be booked on all the remaining sessions for the month.

The sessions will take place on Mondays and Fridays in outdoor parks within Pitsea and must be prebooked in advance - with 20 spaces available per session.

The activity days consist of arts and crafts, hunting for mini beasts and a range of fun sports activities.

All attendees will need to have their temperature taken before taking part in activities and they must have a sunhat with them. Drinking water will be provided.

The remaining dates and locations are:

- Friday 21 August at Elm Green open space

- Monday 24 August & Friday 28 August at Legacy Park, Chalvedon Field

For more information email admin@heartofpitsea.co.uk or call 07572 001671

Register your child

Join the community litter pick this weekend

Are you free between 10.30am and midday this Sunday, 23 August? Do you want to help make a difference in your local park? Then why not join the Gloucester Park Community Group community litter pick.

Littering in our parks and open spaces is a big concern at the moment with lots more people using parks since the easing of lockdown measures. Between 15 June and 20 July, the council collected a staggering 15 tonnes of litter.

The group will meet at 10.30am outside the bowls pavilion, next to Basildon Sporting Village.

Get involved and help make a difference in the community this weekend!

Sign up to the event

Free staycations for NHS hospital workers

A free summer staycation programme at Wat Tyler Park is being offered to NHS workers in Basildon, Mid-Essex and Southend hospitals.

The week-long programmes are being offered on 17, 24 and 31 August. They will include forest skills, orienteering, nature walks, minibeast hunts, pond dipping and more.

The scheme is a big thank you to some of our key workers who have faced Covid-19 head on, faced potentially traumatic situations and sacrificed family time to keep the wider community safe and healthy.

It has been made possible by Zedgeneration, Mum’s Army and Wat Tyler Education, who partnered to gain funding from Active Essex.

To book or enquire, please e-mail wattyler.education@basildon.gov.uk.

Get involved in the 2020 Fun Walk - virtually!

Nearly 80 organisations have now registered to take part in next month’s 19th annual Fun Walk, with participants able to walk the distance anytime during September to raise money for their favourite local charity or good cause.

The annual event, normally held at Barleylands Farm, Billericay, won't be happening in its usual way this year. The 2020 Fun Walk virtual event will give supporters the opportunity to walk the equivalent distance of between two-five kilometres in a setting of their own choosing to raise the sponsorship money.

The Fun Walk has raised £1,169,000 for local charities since its inception, and has provided essential support to some of our borough's most vital charities in the last two decades.