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Children's Opportunity Group
Enabling access to leisure activities for young people with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (LDD)
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Children's Opportunity Group Home Page
Mission Statement: It is our aim to increase independence and enable greater access to social and leisure activities for young people with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (LDD)
About The Children's Opportunities Group
The Children's Opportunities Group welcomes you! Thank you for taking the time to read this information - it will hopefully answer some of your questions, and if you have any further queries, then do not hesitate to speak to the project co-ordinator.
The Children's Opportunities Group is based at Family Resource Centre UK - the centre itself is a "one stop shop" for anyone wanting information about children's activities, schools, childminders, nurseries and so on, and we have information relating to everything for children aged between 0 – 19 (up to 25 for children with Special Needs/Learning Difficulties and Disabilities). But we are slightly different...
Working with SCOPE, Social Services, Berkshire Autistic Society and Reading Youth Action (Millennium Volunteers), CIC was offered a grant from the Community Fund to run the project.
The aim of the The Children's Opportunities Group is to involve our community in ensuring that no young person aged between 5 and 19 misses out on the opportunity to experience organised out-of-school activities due to their particular needs, if barriers can be overcome by the individual support of a volunteer over the age of 16 who has received appropriate preparation training and ongoing support.
We can offer support at organised activities such as youth clubs, sports clubs, Brownies/Beavers etc, but with your permission we can also offer support for activities such as playing in the park, swimming, going to the cinema, window shopping etc.
All volunteers' placements are subject to references, a Criminal Records Bureau disclosure and a training period before they are matched to a young person. Time will then be taken to allow the child/young person and volunteer to get to know one another before they begin to visit the chosen activities. So if there are difficulties, or if yourselves, your child or the volunteer feel that the match is unsuitable, then the process will begin again.
Feedback will be obtained from all concerned in order to ensure that we are providing a useful and workable service. That means feedback from families, children and young people, volunteers and the activities providers.
Who can take part? Children and young people between the ages of five and 19 who have Special Needs / Learning Difficulties and Disabilities that mean they require additional support in order to gain access to local play and leisure activities.
Fundraising ideas
If you would like to try and raise funds for the Children's Opportunities Group click here to download a pdf of useful suggestions, from Auctions and Mini-Olympics, to Cake Sales and Sponsored events.
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Testimonials
What has been the best thing about your involvement with the The Children's Opportunities Group? “Seeing Scott going off and having fun and myself not having to worry about him.”
“My daughter making a new friend and being able to go out safely with her, without me.”
“How well organised our volunteer is.”
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