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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’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.

Read more here…

Please help us to win £6,000 worth of funding to help keep our Girls’ After School Club running next year by voting for us!

The money is up for grabs via NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative and we’re just one of many organisations competing for the funding so we really need your help.

Vote for us online or call 0800 2100 246. Anyone with hearing or speech impairments can contact CommunityForce on Minicom number 0800 0155 545.

Voting closes on 23rd October and you’re allowed to vote 3 times.

As you may know, our girls’ club gives girls aged from 9 to 13 the chance to get involved in activities after school such as arts, crafts, games and discussions about things that they choose.

Many thanks for your support – it’s always appreciated.

Just a reminder that our term-time play sessions for children begin on Monday 12th September with a couple of changes to our usual timetable.

The ‘Play on the Wildside’ nature-inspired outdoor play sessions for little ones aged from 0 to 5 will now take place on Tuesday mornings at Bulwell Hall Park (behind the toy library’s offices) instead of Wednesday afternoons.

The outdoor play sessions replace the family learning sessions, which have now ended.

Click here for a full list of play sessions for children aged 0 to 5

If you have older children, please note that our after-school session at the Crabtree Community Centre on Tuesday is now for children aged from 5 to 8 years only (as we were getting over 70 children at this session!)

Click here for a full list of term-time sessions for older children aged from 5 to 13

Please feel free to give us a call on 0115 975 3898 for more information.

We had a story in Thursday’s Evening Post about our campaign to find funding to keep our girls’ after school club running next year.

You can read the story in full on the Evening Post website.

If you’d like to vote for us to win funding from NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative you can vote from 26th September by calling 0800 2100 246  or online via the CommunityForce website.

Many thanks for your support!

Just a reminder to let you know that our regular term-time play sessions start again on the 12th September.

To find out more about all our services including play sessions for children aged from 0 to 14 please visit the Services section of the website or feel free to get in touch.

Many thanks

Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service has kindly given us a ‘plug’ on its website – asking people to vote for us to win funding from NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative – to help keep our girls’ club running next year.

Read the story in full on the NCVS website

We’re asking everyone to vote for our girls’ after school club to win funding from NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative, so that we can keep the club going next year.

As you may know, our girls’ club gives girls aged from 9 to 13 the chance to get involved in activities after school such as arts, crafts, games and discussions about things that they choose.

The club is just one of hundreds of charities and projects that are competing for funding from CommunityForce nationally and there are just three awards of £6,000 each up for grabs in each CommunityForce region – so we really need your votes!

Voting opens on 26th September and you can vote online by visiting the CommunityForce website or by calling the CommunityForce helpline on 0800 2100 246. Anyone with hearing or speech impairments can contact CommunityForce on Minicom number 0800 0155 545.

Voting closes on 23rd October.

The three projects with the most votes in each CommunityForce area will win the awards – each worth £6,000 so please help us make sure that one of those projects is our girls’ club – by voting for us to win!

Many thanks for your support – it’s always appreciated.

We’ve teamed up with the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery in the city centre to help families in Bulwell make the most of their local woods at Bulwell Hall Park – as part of our Play on the Wildside project.

Artists Sian Watson and Gillian Brent will work with us and families living in Bulwell to create free resources, designed to help other families explore and enjoy playing in the woods.

Resources will include a storybook based on families experiences of playing in the woods, together with hands-on play activities for children of different ages and creative maps designed by children to give other young people a ‘child’s eye view’ of the woods.

For example, the maps will include children’s favourite trees, great spots for hide and seek and lots of ideas for making up your own stories.

When we were researching our Play on the Wildside project, we found that many local families weren’t using the woods in Bulwell Hall Park, as they didn’t know the woods were there, or weren’t sure what to do there.

To help, we run regular sessions in the woods for children aged from 0 to 14, plus special family sessions every second Saturday of the month – which are open to the whole family including friends and grandparents.

Sessions give children and families the chance to enjoy adventurous outdoor play activities such as hide and seek and laying and following trails in the woods; whilst finding out more about nature and the environment and learning ‘bushcraft’ style skills like making campfires, building dens and cooking outdoors.

Hopefully the resources we’re creating with Nottingham Contemporary will help children and families even more. They’ll be available to borrow free of charge from the toy library from October onwards but we’ll keep you posted!

View details of Play on the Wildside sessions

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