Hillingdon Federation Community Association
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1 Hillingdon Community Centres Hillingdon Community Centres are a fundamental part of our local Community. Our Community Centres endeavour to accommodate everyone from toddlers to senior citizens with facilities for wheelchair users. All Community Centres are managed by a dedicated team who work hard to provide a valuable service for the local community. The Summer Play Schemes programme is just one of the many important activities that Community Centres offer children to the local area. They also offer a very wide variety of activities including Keep Fit, Sports, Art classes, Dance and so much more! Most Community Centres have halls and rooms you can hire for meetings or parties, each centre varies. Please contact your local Community Centre for details of their activities and programmes. Addresses and contact numbers are on the back page. 2 Welcome to our world at the HFCA Play Schemes The Hillingdon Federation of Community Association has been organising play schemes since 1993. The Management team behind the HFCA are John Echlin (Chair) John Thirkettle (Vice Chair) Janet Nuth (Hon. Secretary) Jackie Westbrook (Minutes & Website Design) Valerie Mohammadi (Play Scheme Co-ordinator) The play schemes were set up to offer affordable play opportunities to all local children in the long hot summer holidays. Funded by the LB Hillingdon. We are pleased to say that all schemes are set at an affordable price. Each play scheme is managed by a qualified play manager and qualified play leaders. All are CRB checked. Many have been in their post for numerous years. You will be introduced to each play scheme manager and team as you read through this booklet. The play schemes are all about Fun, Excitement, Friendships and the best play opportunities available! The HFCA summer play schemes cover the whole 6 weeks summer holidays, with each Community Centre offering different weeks of play. Please read and be immersed in our world of PLAY! 3 Barnhill Community Centre Star Club Star Club at Barnhill Community Centre is OFSTED registered and has one of the largest teams out of the Play schemes. We are able to offer many places for our inclusion children. All staff are qualified to level 2/3 in play work and Early years. Star Club have been running since 1993 and it is to say that some of the children who have come to us over the years are now working as qualified play workers! Over the years Star Club has achieved two awards for inclusion work in Hillingdon. These are just a few pictures which tell their own story of the fun activities that the children enjoyed taking part in last year. Children attend from the ages of 4½ to 12. Each day’s programme is packed with fun, exciting, healthy and stimulating activities! 4 Barnhill Community Centre Star Club We offer a large array of activities from Arts & Crafts to Football Coaches, Entertainers, Magic shows, Discos, Bouncy Castles, Snooker/ Pool tables, Table Tennis, Badminton, Wii, Xbox Kinnect, Cinema, Jewellery Making, visits from the Dog Trust, Party People, Police, Fire Brigade, Theatre shows and so much more......... Children enjoy meeting and making new friends and sharing a fun filled two weeks of excitement and physically challenging activities!! Parents say every year: “We wish you could run for the whole 6 weeks!!!” Manager is Mrs Valerie Mohammadi/HFCA Play Scheme Coordinator. Email: [email protected] Contact Number is – 07941 571438 5 Hayes End Community Centre Avalon Club Each day the children took part in a variety of activities including decorating mugs, design a picture frame, design a t-shirt, making and painting their own pencil case, Hamma beads, Wind Catchers, plus so much more. The children had the use of the park and the courts where the boys enjoyed playing football. All the children made full use of the playground attached to the centre. Everyday children had a wide variety of activities to keep them physically and mentally fit and all the children enjoyed learning new skills. The children enjoyed the expertise of a professional football coach as well as all the craft activities they were able to participate in. 6 Hayes End Community Centre Avalon Club Parents comments: “First time my Autistic son has ever been to any holiday club! He has enjoyed his time so much. He is up at 6 o'clock in the morning waiting! I have also been able to get some much needed rest bite. Thank you! ” – Mrs Khalid “My son and daughter really enjoyed everything they did, they always brought something home they made that day” – Mrs Hook Comments from the children included: “I have had a wicked time here, and I had training from a professional football coach” Brandon age 10 “I want to come back here everyday day please” Bailey age 8 “ I love the leaders they are so kind and funny” Layla age 5 Contact Number is- 07941436904 Manager Mrs Denise Titouh 7 Crane Community Centre We are proud of ourselves at the Crane Play scheme for twelve plus years of experience in Play work with children age from 4 ½ to 11 years old. We can accommodate up to 50 children comfortably. We have a clean and welcoming building with the added bonus of a secure outside fenced and gated area. The outside area has a barked area / grassed area and concrete so we can offer lots of different activities and experiences. Once children are all in the gates are locked and kept locked until it is time to go home. The atmosphere is always friendly and the children feel comfortable to be able to speak to any member of staff. The staff all have years of experience in school or playgroup areas and are all CRB checked. We have up-to-date policies and parents/carers are always welcome to have a look at them at any time. 8 Crane Community Centre The kitchen area is well fitted and is ideal for the cold cooking we do with children – French bread pizzas / toasties / iced cakes / etc, which the children prepare themselves. The games and construction are changed on a regular basis, so children do not get bored with the same things. The football / ice hockey / pool table are very popular, along with our Bingo games. We do not do trips but we do pride ourselves in arts / crafts – where children can design and make their own creations, also be lead by an adult if necessary. These give children experiences they may not normally have. We purchased some crazy golf items last year and they have proven to be a big success and will be adding to them this year, along with some new experiences in cold cooking. Contact number - 02085817224 Manager: Sue Richardson 9 Brookside at Minet The theme last year was ‘Pirates & Princesses’. We bought cardboard cut out pirate ships from ‘Boxibity’ in Swansea so that each child could take one home after they had put them together & painted them. We also bought a very large one for them to put together & paint & play in outside. The library had provided lots of pirate & princess books and some with ideas for crafts too. We made pirate pictures and coloured pirate finger puppets. We also made swords, pirate hats, eye patches and princess crowns. We had fun with face paints at our ‘Princess & Pirate’ party on the last day. We were also entertained with magic & games by a ‘Pirate’ entertainer. 10 Brookside at Minet The QPR trainer came for sports sessions. We were able to go into ‘GOALS’ next door & also went over to the fields for games. We went into the country park for a nature ‘treasure hunt’. Again the glass painting, hama beads, & jewellery making were popular but probably the most popular was the trip to the Beck theatre by bus to see ‘Treasure Island’ and meeting all the cast afterwards & posing for pictures with them. We have an ideal venue for adventure, crafts & exercise, and each day brought a new challenge to us all with the weather & the environment. The bonus is having a ‘swing park’ next to it too so the children enjoyed letting off steam at the end of the morning or afternoon (under supervision). Contact number-02088419630 Manager Mrs Janet Nuth 11 Bell Farm The holiday week that ran at Bell Farm Christian Centre was themed “Reach for the Skies”. The children were encouraged to try out lots of new things that normally they would never have tried. The week was very exciting with 54 children attending. The things the children participated in were a fitness workout, learning new songs (one in sign language), craft making such as musical instruments and acting out the story of Joseph from the bible. We also had different activities on certain days of the week for instance on the Tuesday we had a great Bollywood Dance Tutor come in where he then spent time teaching this type of dancing to the children. Every child participated as well as the staff and volunteers. The children had a great time. Another day we hired a climbing wall and the children were able to be harnessed up and then climb this massive wall. We also had a jungle run brought in. The children absolutely loved the wall and many learnt new skills of wall climbing. This was an experience which many will carry into later life. 12 Bell Farm On the final day of the club parents were invited to come back to the centre slightly earlier to watch their children perform for them some of the songs they had learnt. The children had also had a lesson on the musical instrument they had made and they performed for the parents using their instrument.