News

The two week Summer Play-scheme was a great success.  Depending upon which group they were in, children took part in a variety of activities, including Crazy Golf, 10-pin bowling, horse riding, and visits to Pets At Home, Garsons Farm and Kidspace.  Everyone participated in art and craft and swimming sessions, and all groups enjoyed a trip to Thames Valley Adventure Playground.  Fortunately, the weather was generally dry, apart from a couple of downpours.

All parents whose children attended the play-scheme will receive both a parent/carer and kids’ questionnaire.  PLEASE fill them in and return them to the interAKtive PO Box address by September 1st.  The feedback is important to us, helps us plan future play-schemes, and enables us to apply for funding.

Aiming High for Disabled Children, who part funded the two weeks, will also be issuing a questionnaire to parents, as will the University of Surrey, which is monitoring a number of specialist play-schemes.  Please try to find the time to fill them in and return them.  Your feedback will help us to secure future funding.

Current and up and coming events

We have confirmed dates for the following - (See Events page for more details).

17th, 18th, 25th, 26th, 31st August - Horse Riding at Epsom RDA.

September 11th – Swimming (18:30-19:30) at Guildford Spectrum. We plan to have a number of “helpers” in the water at this session.

September 30th – AGM: see below for more details (attendance forms in due course).

October 26th – Climbing sessions 10:00-11:00 and 11:00-12:00) at Craggy Island, Carshalton (booking forms in due course)

Full details/booking forms for the AGM, swimming and climbing will be issued the week commencing August 16th. 

Coffee Mornings

There are no coffee mornings scheduled over the school summer holidays, but they will start again in September. We have tried a number of different venues during the first half of his year, including Denbies (Dorking), the Rubbing House (Epsom Downs), the Woodcote Green Garden Centre (Wallington), and Costa Coffee (Banstead).

Update

AGM

 We have moved the AGM from evening to day time, and it will be held on Thursday September 30th (10:00-12:30) at Reigate Hill Golf Club. Following the business part of the meeting, we will be welcoming our speaker, Helen Cockerill, whose topic will be the difficulties surrounding food and diet, common to many asd children. Helen is a Clinical Expert Speech and Language Therapist at Evelina Children’s Hospital (Guys’ and St Thomas’s Hospital NHS Trust). The event will finish with a sandwich lunch.

Just Giving

interAKtive is now signed up with JustGiving. If you (or any of your family/friends) are planning to raise money for us, you can post the details of your venture on the site and sponsors/donors can make donations to interAKtive through Just Giving.

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