YMCA East Surrey offers school holiday playschemes for children and young people with additional needs and disabilities at the YMCA Sovereign Centre in Reigate, providing much needed short breaks for many local families. This summer, 88 children with complex needs and aged between 5 and 11 attended the Yippee playscheme. 45 young people with disabilities…
The children and young people have enjoyed the good weather throughout the week and taken part in a variety of activities as always. Yippee playscheme for children aged 5-11 years with disabilities welcomed 107 attendances from 51 children over four days. They went on a trip to Tilgate Park, where they were fascinated by an…
Thanks to funding from Active Surrey we were able to put on our third Surrey Super Sports event on Friday 26 May 2017. The event was a great success with pupils from local SEN schools being able to take part in a wide range of inclusive activities.
Our Yippee and Yip4Youth holiday schemes, based at the YMCA Sovereign Centre in Slipshatch Road, Reigate, had a packed schedule of Easter activities. We provided specialist one to one care for 40% of the children and young people with disabilities who attended and were ably supported by an enthusiastic team of volunteer playworkers. The holiday schemes took place over…
‘Don’t Lose the Plot’ is YMCA East Surrey’s horticultural project working with young people who have additional needs aged between 14-20 in the local area. We have an allotment in Redhill where we grow fruit, vegetables and flowers, teaching young people about the health benefits of growing your own. We also work with Reigate and Banstead…
This half term YMCA East Surrey offered an average of 33 spaces per day at the Sovereign Centre on their Yippee and Yip4Youth schemes for children and young people with disabilities. This totalled just under 1,000 hours of short break care across the week, providing support to a huge number of local families.
A big thank you to Nutley Kitchen Gardens for donating equipment for our ‘Don’t Lose the Plot’ gardening project for young people with disabilities.
We are now proud partners with Fare Share. Working in partnership with Tesco we are getting food which is close to its best before date which we are able to use immediately on sessions. This helps to reduce food waste, encourages young people with disabilities to come up with creative ideas to cook a selection…
Over the festive period the young people with disabilities who access our new whole day services celebrated with a trip out to the Beehive in Woodhatch. The young people involved in the trip have spent the last term cooking, preparing and serving food to members of the public and so this time they had the opportunity…
The Reigate & Banstead Sports Awards, organised by rb sport, were held at the Old Reigatians Rugby Club in Reigate last Monday 3 October. The awards were aimed at recognising and rewarding talented local athletes, coaches, volunteers, teams and clubs for their outstanding achievements in sport over the past 12 months.
