Archive for the ‘Activities’ Category

We’re currently running free training sessions for childminders and other out-of-school childcare workers so you can find out more about play – including ideas for playing outdoors this summer.

Click here for details of training sessions coming soon

We’ve made a few changes to our play sessions recently – feel free to get in touch if there’s anything you’d like to check before coming along to a session.

Click here for details of play sessions for 0 to 5 year olds

Click here for details of play sessions for 5 to 13 year olds

The Nottingham Evening Post featured a story about our free play training for childminders and other out of school childcare practitioners on Thursday 19th April.

Read the story in full

Click here for more details of the training available

We have a stall on Bulwell Market today – where we’re selling second-hand toys and fantastic activity packs – just the thing to keep your family entertained during the Easter holidays!

We’re also asking people for their views on a new service we’re planning – involving the toy library running children’s parties on behalf of parents.

Why not come down and say hello?

Steve Parkinson from the toy library was on BBC Radio Nottingham last week, talking to Richard Spurr about the toy library and our new reading project ‘Listen with Lorraine’.

You can still listen to the interview here for a few more hours!

If you don’t want to listen to the whole show, you can scroll along 1 hour 43 minutes to hear Steve talking.

It was a great interview, despite the toy library being introduced as the Mansfield toy library by mistake!

To find out more about Listen with Lorraine click here

We’re launching a brand new project to give families a fun way of enjoying stories together!

The idea has been inspired by the BBC’s classic ‘Listen with Mother’ radio show which featured stories for little ones read aloud by presenters.

We’re updating the idea for 2012 by developing a website where you’ll be able to listen to stories as a family, with children of all ages.

At the moment, we’re looking for authors who would be happy for us to read their stories aloud as we need the writer’s permission to feature books online.

In the future we’re hoping to expand the project so that local children can get involved in story-writing for example.

We’ll keep you posted!

Reading aloud to children from a young age has loads of great benefits for them and research shows that children who are read to go on to do better at school and in later life.

Click here to read the full story

Our new play sessions at the Bulwell Riverside Centre on Main Street/Coventry Road are proving really popular.

The sessions include free after-school activities for older children and daytime play sessions for babies and under 5′s which cost just £1 per family.

Click here for a full list of play sessions at the Riverside or to find out more.

We also run play sessions for children of all ages at other venues in Bulwell including outdoor play sessions at Bulwell Hall Park woods.

For a full list of play sessions for children aged 0 to 5 please click here

For a full list of play sessions for children aged 5 to 13 please click here

As you may know, we’re now running regular play sessions at the new Bulwell Riverside centre on Main Street/Coventry Road in Bulwell.

The new sessions include:

Play & Lend session for children aged 0 to 5 years
Every Thursday from 9.30am to 11am
Costs: £1 per family

Join in with fun play activities specially designed for little ones, run by our experienced playworkers and volunteers, whilst you enjoy a coffee and a chat! Plus, you can borrow toys and games to take home in-between sessions for just a few pence.

Baby Play session for babies aged from 0 to 14 months 
Every Tuesday from 1pm to 2.30pm
Costs: £1 per family

Join in with fun play activities designed exclusively for babies whilst meeting other parents and carers.

After school session for 9 to 13 year olds
Every Monday from 3.30pm to 5.30pm
FREE

A free session for 9 to 13 year olds designed to give children a fun, safe place to meet their friends and join in with a whole host of activities including games, sports, arts and crafts.

After school session for 5 to 13 year olds
Every Thursday from 3.30pm to 5.30pm
FREE

A free session for 5 to 13 year olds designed to give children a fun, safe place to meet their friends and join in with a whole host of activities including games, sports, arts and crafts.

For full details of all our other sessions please visit our 0-5 years section or our Over 5′s section.

We held our first ever session at the new Bulwell Riverside on Tuesday 1st November.

It was a special play session for babies and as you can see from the pictures, a lot of fun was had by all!

Nine parents came along to the session and you’re more than welcome to join them next week – we’ll be holding a regular play session for babies aged under 14 months every Tuesday from 1pm to 2.30pm at the Riverside.

It’s never too early to start playing with your baby – as well as helping you to bond with your little one, play will help your baby to develop skills such as speech and language as they grow.

Plus of course, our baby play sessions are a great way to meet other parents and carers with young children.

You’ll also find us at the Riverside on Thursday mornings from 9.30am to 11am – where we’ll be running a Play and Lend session for 0 to 5 year olds. Our Play and Lend sessions include lots of fun activities for little ones run by experienced playworkers and volunteers. Plus, you can borrow toys and games from our toy library in-between sessions for just a few pence a week.

Each session costs just £1 per family.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

We’re running new play sessions from Tuesday 1st November at the Bulwell Riverside – in partnership with Nottingham City Council’s Family Community Team.

The sessions will include after-school play sessions for children aged from 5 to 13 and also daytime play sessions for families with children under 5.

We’ll be running a special baby-play session too, which will use play to help develop children’s language and communication skills from an early age.

The after-school play sessions for 5 to 13 year olds are free and the sessions for under 5′s will cost just £1 per family.

We hope to see you at our first session on the 1st!

You’re welcome to call us on 0115 975 3898 to find out more about the sessions.

Bulwell Riverside is on Main Street and Coventry Road, close to the River Leen and Bulwell Bogs Park.

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