Special Edition - SUMMER Newsletter

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Special Edition - SUMMER Newsletter


ShortBreaks

We hope that you will have a great summer holiday! 

We are aware from feedback gathered that it can be hard to know and plan activities for the longest holiday of the year!

This is why we have been working together with providers in adding their summer activities on our Local Offer online calendar. Thank you to all those that have added their events or emailed them already across to the Local Offer or Short Breaks team!

Parents* please find out what is going on near you on the Local Offer calendar of events. 

If you do attend a session why not post a comment of your experience on that service providers summary card? See a video here on how to comment on service providers summary card. Thank you!

Best wishes,

Lindsey Butterfield and Charlotte Smith 

(Short Breaks Engagement Officer & Local Offer Officer)

*The term parent includes anyone with responsibility for caring for a child/young person with additional needs or SEND.


Here are a list of some of the activities:

Where possible we have added the poster for the session(s) to the entry on the event on the Local Offer. 

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Apulstock Music Festival Apulstock is an annual small event aimed at people with learning disabilities, but anyone is welcome to come. Its about giving people the opportunity to come along and have a real festival experience, a little bit of joy once a year.

Autism Sussex Summer Holiday Activities [Various Locations and activities] 

Autism Sussex Blacklands Farm Residential Trip

Bubbles and Skylarks - Play & Learn Plus Together
Core Assets: Summer Camp [Crawley]

Compass Summer Offers 2016

Extratime - Summer Schemes [East Grinstead & Southwick]

Fishing Taster Sessions [Haywards Heath & Pulborough]

Flamingoes Swimming Club at K2 [Crawley] (18+)

Impulse Leisure (are running several different sessions including: a Junior Summer Program; Trampoline Rebound Therapy, and Great Run sessions) [Lancing & Southwick]

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Lego Club - Springboard [Horsham]

Lodge Hill (Dynamic Activity Day in Association with Short Breaks, Lodge Hill Family Activity Day, 1/2hour sessions, and Aspergers Activity Session with Short Breaks) [Pulborough]

Moving Barriers [Crawley]

National Citizen Service (NCS) Summer Programme

Oak Grove College: Holiday Activities [Worthing]

Pinocchio & his P.A.L.s Tour (various locations including Chichester)

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Sensory Room: Durington Children & Family Centre [Durrington]

Libraries run a sensory 'story magic' once every month Story Magic sessions [Various Locations]

East Grinstead Special FamiliesStay and Play Session [East Grinstead]

New Short Breaks provider in West Sussex YMCA Summer Holiday Club [Crawley]

Time Aside Sensory Art [CrawleyBognor Regis]

Oak Grove Holiday Club are taking part in the Tribal Series at Dorney Lake


It's not too late to add your events!

If you provide a service and have events / sessions happening during the summer holiday it is still not too late to add them to the calendar. Log into your account on the Local Offer and sign in. If you have a poster / flyer then please email localoffer@westsussex.gov.uk and they will be added.


Activites open to all and SEND activities

There are a number of services on our Local Offer you may be able to visit. Check the full list here.

  • The Olive Tree Cottage is a frequent viewed service on our Local Offer. They offer a home from home quieter coffee shop with bunnies to cuddle and ducks to feed.
  • Visiting the West Sussex Country Side have produced two books with information about the parks and a supportive book for children/young people of places you may decide to visit.


These events have all been pulled from our Local Offer