The map below shows the locations being used groups that are running Fit for All sessions this summer. Click on a marker for more information about what is on offer from each group. Have a look at the list below the map. Please note that many of the services are limited:, eg:
- they may be run by schools for pupils at those schools
- they may require parents/carers to attend sessions
- they may be mainly aimed at the existing users of a given service
- they may give priority to children who live very locally.
Services with places available require bookings to be made in advance. Parents/carers with SEND children will, in any case, want to make contact with providers to discuss their child’s needs and interests.
Please use the Booking Enquiry Form at the foot of the page to make contact with groups as indicated. You could include details like names, gender, ages, special needs, where you live, whether you are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and where your child goes to school.
All Saints Youth Project
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 years old including: young people with SEND and or who are vulnerable due to a range of individual needs and children who are eligible for free school meals. ASYP believes in promoting inclusive practice and creating a welcome for ALL young people regardless of their ability or background. Find out more
Balsall Heath CATS
Providing a total of 80 children with 20 sessions of 3hrs and lunch with 50 children at each session is. Including children who are FSM eligible as well as children with SEND and other vulnerable children. Based at Heath Mount School in Balsall Heath. Find out more
Dame Ellen Pinsent School
Providing a summer club for 30 children who attend the school. There will be 10 sessions of 4 hrs each during the first two weeks of the holidays. With lunch provided by the school. Find out more
Hamilton School
Providing a summer club for 25 children who attend the school. There will be 15 sessions of 5hrs each with lunch provided at the school. Find out more
Hamstead Hall Academy
Providing summer activities and lunch at morning and afternoon sessions for 200 children and young people including children aged 5-18 years old who are FSM eligible as well as children with SEND and other vulnerable children. Lunch provided at the school based in Handsworth Wood. Find out more
Meriden Adventure Playground Association
Providing adventiure play to children and young people from Birmingham with up to 16 x 4 hr sessions of adventure play each. Including children and young people who are FSM eligible as well as children with SEND and other vulnerable children. Lunch is provided on-site. Find out more
Norton Hall Children and Family Centre
Providing play and youth work activities for more than 280 children and young people with 16 x 4hr sessions that include children and young people who are FSM eligible as well as children with SEND and other vulnerable children. Lunch is provided at the centre in Alum Rock. Find out more
Parks for Play
Providing play sessions and lunches for at least 70 children and young people with SEND in 5 groups (sorted by age). Each group gets 13 sessions including an enrichment trip out from Coronation Road Playcentre. Find out more
Parks for Play is working with women’s empowerment charity WE:ARE to provide 3 play sessions off-site for children who are vulnerable due to domestic abuse.
PHAB Camps
Providing week long residential camps in Cheshire and Cumbria for disabled and non-disabled young people and children. The group is run entirely by volunteers and fundraises the year round to pay for the summer camps. To get involved, you should make contact with Birmingham PHAB Camps well before the summer. Which means making a link now in time for Summer 2023. Find out more
Reboot Greencare
Aiming to provide Green Care sessions towards the end of the summer holidays at Woodgate Valley Urban Farm for 8 SEND children and their families. With lunches provided at the farm based in Bartley Green. More details shortly
Resources for Autism
Providing sessions for 100 autistic children and young people at bases in North and South Birmingham (both tbc). Each session involves an average of 10 SEND children. Sessions will run for 5 hours each (10am – 3pm) including lunch. Places are in high demand. Find out more
Birmingham SEND Socials CIC
Providing holiday activities for 100 children and young people with SEND and siblings including a total of 38 sessions on 23 days of the holidays. Sessions for 20 children each run morning and afternoon and there are weekly enrichment trips out. Parents/carers attend these sessions with their children. The main base will be Dame Ellen Pinsent School in Billesley, but a number of venues will be used in different parts of the city, mainly South Birmingham. Find out more
Seven Up
Providing 17 play and youth work sessions of 2.5 hours each and lunches for 16 children per session to two different age groups involving at total of 32 SEND children. Most of the delivery is out-of-doors and is based at Rookery Road Children’s Centre in Handsworth and Crick Garden in Birchfield. Find out more
Shining Stars Association
Providing sessions for 16 children and young people with SEND and their siblings from families that are part of the Chinese community. Shining Stars is based at the Chinese Community Centre in Birmingham located in Digbeth but many of the sessions will take place as trips with parents/carers off-site. Find out more
Square Peg Activities
Providing a summer holiday club for at least 90 children with SEND and siblings in the course of the summer. There are two sessions of 2hrs each per day with lunch every weekday of the holidays. Each session caters for 25 SEND children and siblings attending with parents/carers at Square Peg Activities’ base in Sutton Coldfield. Find out more
You can use the Booking Enquiry Form below for information about any of the services above. But see the notes on the links above about access to services and bear in mind that some are limited so that, for example:
- the schemes at Hamilton and Dame Ellen Pinsent Schools are only open to children who attend those schools
- services run by Square Peg Activities, Birmingham SEND Socials, Reboot Greencare and Shining Stars need parents/carers to attend
- PHAB Camp bookings are made up to a year in advance.
- services for children with SEND depend on good links between parents and providers – which explains why many services may only accept a few children that haven’t seen before.
And, finally, most of the groups providing services on this page were created by parents/carers and families. Children’s Quarter (which is the cooperative that runs Fit for All) will support you to organise inclusive provision in future.