Provider Info
Friar Park Winter Fun
Friar Parks Winter Fun offers your child an enriching, active, and safe holiday experience led by qualified staff. This programme is designed to ensure every young person thrives through engaging physical and enrichment activity by giving your child the independence to chose the activities they want to take part in and by providing a wide range of activity throughout the venue.
- Physical Activity: Activities include team sports such as Football, Basketball, Dodgeball and individual skills like Gymnastics, Tennis, Skipping. Along with the Daily Mile for sustained fitness.
- Creative and Enrichment Activity: A wide variety of stimulating activities are offered, including Arts and Crafts, Cooking, Baking, Role Play, Puzzles, and STEM/Educational challenges.
- We also provide family baking sessions for individuals to attend building on family relationships and also with the wider community. We will have a qualified SEN practitioner on site during these sessions, we are flexible to ensure that every young person gets an opportunity to be involved in what we have on offer.
- Our approach helps young people explore interests, build confidence, and find hobbies they want to progress in.
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Please await your 16-digit code, this will be distributed by schools in the form of an email or text. Please only enter the HAF Pincode if applicable.
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About us
We are a welcoming and inclusive community centre, offering a variety of groups and activities tailored to all age groups and members of the local community. These activities are voluntarily led by dedicated individuals from the community, ensuring everyone feels valued and accepted as an individual. Our committed staff go the extra mile to make every visitor’s experience enjoyable and to create a sense of belonging within our centre. We also provide services specifically for young people, managed collaboratively by our staff and volunteers. To ensure their safety, we have comprehensive policies in place. Conveniently located in the heart of Friar Park, our centre is fully accessible and open to everyone.
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What makes HAF Friar Park Millennium Centre unique?
All our staff go beyond expectations when delivering HAF programmes. Our service is inclusive and we ensure that each individual has the opportunity to be involved with each activity provided. What makes us unique is that we provide what we feel is beneficial for children but as well as this we are flexible to change and alter original plans to fit the needs and interests of our service users (the young people).
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What benefits can you expect from this?
We will offer life-long learning opportunities where young people can develop new skills and develop in a creative way. We are a flexible team and will alter, plan and organise activities to meet the needs and interests of young people. We offer a range of activities which will meet the interests of all young children ranging from; sports coaching, arts and crafts, soft play, outdoor play, daily mile, nutrition activities, puzzles and many more. Young people would feel a part of the community centre, gain a sense of belonging and develop their confidence within the project environment. All young people who are new attendees will get introductions to staff and other children and shown around the community centre. This can help to ensure young people feel welcomed and gain the sense of belonging. As well as working on a young person individuals self (self-esteem, confidence) we will offer activities to develop physical, intellectual, emotional and social development. We will even go further to make referrals and signpost to other activities which may be beneficial for children and families after the HAF programme has finished.
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What makes this activity inclusive?
There will be a qualified member of staff who is SEND qualified. There will be opportunities for young people to be booked on to get 1-1 assistance if required; these bookings will need to contact the centre in case any reasonable adjustments need to be arranged. We will work closely with parents/careers with young people who may have care plans and also communicate to understand any sensory issues or additional support children will need. The Friar Park Millennium Centre is very accessible; it has no stairs, wide doors for wheel chair users, brail on doors and a sensory room to support those with sensory needs or a break out zone. We are also open to meeting parent/career to discuss how we can provide support for children with SEND to ensure their needs are catered for. From meeting with parents/careers we will provide additional support and signpost to other organisations or activities delivered in the centre suitable for them.
What They Say About Us
‘The millennium centre is beyond what it does, very outstanding, so many activities to do in so many rooms! Huge variety of breakfast and snacks. The trips are excellent and very well run. The children are welcome in everyday at the start by the door. Even the staff are there for children who are having bad days they are given a lot of support. all the staff really go out their way. If there was an award for them what they do for the children 100s the help I would defiantly nominate the club and Leanne who runs it, kids love her so much she is excellent. The children are able to do so much with Leanne’s help. Nothing but fun, games, so many activities, cooking, art work, sports games, animal man, parties, Easter hunts, cinema days and the list goes on’
“The club was a god send during holidays as they always struggle to find childcare when they are working.”
“Thank you to you all. My children really enjoyed their time at the play scheme. Can’t fault the care they received and my son with ASD was able to join in and feel at ease. “
“The parents are amazed by the number of rooms we have and use during the HAF there are so many activities going on in different rooms and the children look forward to when we have a party at the end of each term.”
“This community centre is amazing the toddler mornings are every Tuesday all year round and are great we have been going almost every week for a year now. The community day fayres are always good and we try and go to all of them definitely worth having a look to see if there’s anything for you”
” I love coming to holiday club because I do the daily mile with the staff around the field and it is fun. I also like doing the cooking activities.”
”I wouldn’t know what to do without with the millennium centre, they help me a lot and my children with the activities, the staff are lovely and helpful. Brilliant!”
Children and young people will have opportunities for outdoor play so it is important that children bring appropriate clothing. Children will also need appropriate footwear for physical activities.
You will need to book using your 16-digit HAF code which are provided from school, for those children who receive free school meals. If you need any support with online bookings don’t hesitate to contact Leanne at the Friar Park Millennium Centre.
email: leannejones32@yahoo.co.uk
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