• Having Fun
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• Activities
• Days Out
• Performing Arts

Activities

Our members range in age from 4 years old to young adults, and they have a very wide range of interests and abilities. Our activities are based at a fully accessible venue and our high staff ratio means that every member can be supported in their chosen activities. We offer a wide choice of toys and games, music, arts and crafts, things to do both indoors and outdoors, soft play including a ball pool, shop corner, books for some quiet time and more!

We also have visits from the Sunshine Clowns who do magic shows and discos, Helen the Potter who helps us to make our own artistic items and sometimes local firemen come to see us if there are no emergencies to attend. We also go out to local places for accessible 10-pin-bowling, adventure playgrounds and other activities.

The Sunshine Clowns have been coming to the North Wilts Holiday club for many years and know many of the young people well. They are two of the kindest people you are ever likely to meet. Spoke and Posy always take great care to ensure that the show they put on is suitable for the audience and everyone is included. Younger groups enjoy their puppet shows and magic tricks, and for older members there are discos with lots of familiar songs and dances. Everyone comes out with armfuls of balloon animals, and prizes and huge smiles.

Bowood have been extremely generous to us over the years. They open up an hour early, especially for us so that we can play on the adventure playground without having to wait for our turn, as it can get very busy in the holidays.

The bravest and most agile of our members love the arial walkways, high slides, death slide and climbing nets. Club members who are less agile, or prefer to stay nearer the ground enjoy the soft play areas and ball pool, swing boats and pirate ship.

When we are worn out from playing we go for a walk around the grounds to see the cave, lake and the waterfall, which often leads to lots of imaginative games full of magic and mystery. We have also used the Driving range at Bowood where some of our club members had a marvellous time, learning the skills of golf.

Drawing by Eliot

We usually choose to go to Christie Miller Sports Centre to join in with bowling, it is an accessible venue and we often have the place to ourselves which is lovely as with 1:1 staff there are a lot of us in a small area. Everyone can join in with the bowling if they choose, including wheelchair users, as there are special ramps for the balls and Holiday Club staff are always on hand to help - we also put some music on the jukebox and there's a real party atmosphere.