Playscheme

Turtle CYP, formerly known as the ‘Four Towns Play Association’ and ‘South Gloucestershire Playscheme’ run free playschemes for children in the school holidays at venues across South Gloucestershire including Patchway, Stoke Gifford, Bradley Stoke, Kingswood and Yate.

The playscheme offers free play sessions for children from 5 – 11 years of age who live or go to school in South Gloucestershire. We support local children to play and learn in the presence of others in a safe and child-friendly environment. We run play sessions during the school holidays – four weeks in the summer break, one week at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, and half term family fun days in February, October and Whitsun.

Our aim is to ensure children have fun and also to provide a break for parents. The scheme provides a safe and fun environment for children to enjoy a range of activities including arts, crafts, sports and team games. 

“It’s a wonderful summer club for my children. They see friends and enjoy new activities. It’s a much needed break for me. We would really struggle without it. ”

Report from our Easter 2025 events

During the Easter Holidays we ran the Playscheme days and also free family fun sessions in Kingswood, Yate and Patchway. There was definitely an egg, bunny and sheep theme happening in the crafting. And plenty of outside play in the sunshine.

Photograph of girl wearing pink bunny ears holding a plate with a white sheep on it.
Easter craft.
Photograph of series of paper plates on a window sill, with sheep designs made from cotton balls and black heads and carrots.
Craft sheep on a window display.
Photograph of girl showing her Easter egg craft. A blue egg with a duckling popping out.
Easter egg craft.
Photograph of girl with the 2 blue Easter eggs with Easter messages to mum and dad.
Easter egg messages.
Photo of boy showing off his marvellous sheep design on a plate.
Boy showing off his sheep plate.
Photograph of children and play scheme worker concentrating on their plate decorating.
Concentration on their Easter crafts.
Photograph of boy with his handcraft paper egg in green with black spots and a gold centre.
Egg craft
Photo of 3 girls enjoying a swing in the playground.
3 girls enjoying a swing in the playground.
Photo of boy with a flower he made from pipe cleaners.
A flower made from crafting pipe cleaners
Photo of children playing in a sack race.
Children in a sack race.
Photo of lunch with sandwiches and fruit being served.
Lunch being served.
Photo of painting of rainbow being cut with scissors
Rainbows art work.

Look out for announcements about our half-term and summer holiday plans on our Facebook page.

February half term 2025 report for free family sessions.

During the February half term we ran 6 free family fun sessions across the following places: Kingswood Park / Holy Trinity Church, St Nixs Family Center in Yate and Coniston Community Center in Patchway. We did bark rubbing, made small animal arts and crafts, created Chinese New Year Lanterns and pictures.

We entertained 72 families including 147 children.

February 2025 Family Fun ReportRead our report
Photo of families carving Halloween pumpkins and a big mess!

Every year we apply to lots of different funding pots.   

We feel it’s important to ensure that there is no cost to the families that attend our scheme. We would like to say a huge thank you to the following funders that have given us funding so far this year: