All Saints is an inclusive youth project that has been providing leisure and learning opportunities for young people in Kings Heath since 1998. It celebrates the diversity of young people and its staff and volunteers. This summer All Saints is offering twelve days of youth provision for 50 young people aged between 10 and 18 …
Thank you delivering Fit for All and for making a difference over the Easter holidays. It’s time for some evaluation – a chance to: reflect on – and learn from – the experience; and start to put together the case for more inclusive school holiday sessions in future. Please help by answering at least two …
Balsall Heath CATS (BHC) ran a Fit for All programme of fifteen 3 hour sessions for disabled and vulnerable children providing a total of more than 2250 hours of activity over the Summer of 2021 and more than 750 healthy meals. The group told Fit for All about what they felt had worked, and about …
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Wilson Stuart School is a special academy based in Perry Common in Erdington district. The school caters for 229 pupils aged 2-25 years with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. The after-school club Rockets is available to all special needs children from 8 to 19 years including from other schools and colleges. During the Summer of …
Square Peg is a charity set up by parents to support children and adults with additional needs as well as their siblings, parents and carers: ‘supporting the whole family’. The group runs inclusive Stay & Play; enables accessible sensory play; organises daytrips and social events for families; and provides Autism Awareness training for businesses and …
Norton Hall has been a centre for community action and learning in East Birmingham for more than a hundred years. It was refurbished in the 1970s to act as a centre for children by a local community association and has been a hub for services for families and children ever since. The Norton Hall Association …
Local families that found it impossible to access play and leisure facilities for children in the inner city area of Balsall Heath, set up Balsall Heath CATS (Children’s Action Team Support) in 2004. Their aim was to help children and young people with disabilities be part of the local community and to support, develop and …
Hamstead Hall Academy is an inclusive and friendly comprehensive school located in Handsworth Wood which serves 1100 children and young people from diverse backgrounds in the North West of Birmingham. The school includes a resource base for students with cognition and learning difficulties which helps its SEND pupils to achieve similar levels of progress to …
S.E.N.D Socials Birmingham is a non-profit community group set up by a network of parents to provide social opportunities and events for children with special educational needs and disabilities. The group used Coronation Road Play Centre and other locations to deliver Fit for All activities in Summer 2021. They included: animal encounters, stay and play, …
Resources for Autism is a charity which provides practical services for children and adults with a diagnosis of autism and for those who love and care for them. Since 2009, the charity has had a small West Midlands team which has established links through parenting and behaviour support across the region and play services at …