What we do

The playscheme is designed to support children in the local area to play and learn in the presence of others in a safe and child-friendly environment. 

It’s all about fun and encouraging the children and young people to learn and develop their skills through playing with others. Many of the activities undertaken encourage learning and creative play.

Each location differs, but we pride ourselves on inspiring children with a mix of activities including: 

  • Creativity and crafts 
  • Performing arts 
  • Team play and puzzles 
  • Sports 
  • Outdoor and indoor games 
  • Dressing up 

Summer holiday playscheme round-up

This summer holiday, we delivered our playscheme for 3 days a week in Stoke Gifford and Yate and 4 days a week in Bradley Stoke, Patchway and Kingswood. We provided 2600 spaces for children across the 4 weeks. Each venue was either 30 or 40 children per session (35 in Kingswood Park). We delivered 72 playscheme sessions running from 10.30am-2.30pm across five locations:

  • Patchway (St Chads Church),
  • Bradley Stoke (Jubilee Centre),
  • Stoke Gifford (Poplar Rooms),
  • Little Stoke (Little Stoke Community Hall),
  • Yate (St Nixs Family Centre),
  • Kingswood(Beaconrise Primary & Kingswood Park).

Each day the children had a free cold lunch of sandwiches / wraps, carrot and cucumber sticks along with a range of fruits. We continue to use Snack Attacks in Patchway for Patchway, Yate, Stoke Gifford & Bradley Stoke. We also used BS15 CIC in Kingswood for our venues in Kingswood

Both provided such great, nutritious lunches at affordable prices to us. We always support local businesses where possible.

This summer, we had the following themed weeks and activities:

  • Crazy Creatures
  • Creative Recycling
  • Games Week
  • Around The World

“Thank you for offering this free playscheme, it really does help working parents juggle the long summer holidays and gets the children out of the house having new experiences”