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Dates for your diary: Our Early Years SEND Coffee Mornings with Stay and Play are BACK from 23rd September. For parents of children aged 0-5 with additional needs. These sessions are free, informal and the perfect opportunity to meet other parents and chat to our family services team! The kettle will be on and our softplay will be open for any attending children! There’s no need to book.

11th September 2022, 15:00-18:30 Address Meanwood Cricket Club Parkside Road, Meanwood, Leeds, LS6 4NE Contact Phone: 07725 041601 Email: hello@sunshineandsmiles.org.uk  

Website: https://www.revolution-bars.co.uk/masterclasses Booking opens  Monday 26th September at 6pmBooking closes Thursday 6th October at 6pm Another one for our Parent/Carers! This one is 18+ and aimed at Parent/Carers for a well deserved night off with other carers that ‘get it’. A Cocktail Making Masterclass!  Discover expert tips, get hands-on behind the bar and learn to make (and invent!) your favourites. Fuel the fun with tasty eats and go head to head with your mates in a few cheeky games. Feelin’ like a winner? Enjoy all this and more from a Revolution Masterclass. Choose your tipple and let’s get this party started, […]

Booking released Wed 5th Oct at 6pm Little Hiccups hire out one of the cinema’s for Little Hiccups families and provide a relaxed showing with reduced lighting and reduced sound. I am currently confirming if this showing comes with subtitles and audio descriptions. If you need these, please mention in the comments. As we hire out the room, you can relax and sit back and enjoy the show in the knowledge that it is only Hiccups families there. Every seat is a plush recliner seat and at the front of the cinema are ‘beds’. Basically it is perfect for our […]

Join our teacher Georgia and Kerri from Funky Moves for this extra special NEW, live class! 3 FREE trial sessionsWednesday 5th October –> Wednesday 19th October4.30pm – 5.15pmOn Zoom We are so excited to present this special collaboration with London-based dance organisation Funky Moves. Blending Funky Moves’ cool modern dance style with the magic, sparkle and inclusive approach of Flamingo Chicks, this is a truly unique opportunity for all children to dance with us online! This 3-week trial is perfect for children aged 4 to 11, but siblings and older children are welcome too. Places are FREE but must be booked in advance. Book your free trial here.

Flamingo Chicks is launching a brand-new online virtual class to celebrate World Space Week (4th – 10th October 2022). Join us for an intergalactic journey across the solar system through music, movement and Makaton, learning about each planet as we go. Our award winning virtual classes are beautifully animated, fully inclusive for disabled and non-disabled children, include Makaton and are packed full of creativity – taking children on an exciting and immersive STEM journey through movement and music. This year we’ve also teamed up with inclusive music organisation, Drake Music, to bring this session to you! The class is FREE […]

TIPS IN 20: BITESIZE MOTIVATIONAL SESSIONS We’ve joined forces with Charlie Beswick, expert mentor to parents/carers of disabled children, to deliver bitesize motivational sessions to empower mums, dads and carers. These webinars are FREE to the Flamingo Chicks community and are delivered in 20 minutes or less. Charlie has walked the path herself as a mum of two sons, one who has Goldenhar syndrome and autism. Next webinar: Dealing with the opinions of others 8pm, Tuesday 25th October, on Zoom Join Charlie for a lightening session on how to deal with the unwanted and unhelpful opinions of others, whether it’s strangers in the supermarket […]

We are excited to announce that on Tuesday 28th March 2023 we will be hosting Leeds Local Offer Live 10am till 2pm at Pudsey Civic Hall. The event will be a market place style event for families with a child with special educational needs and/or disabilities to come and find out about SEND services and support available to them within the city. We have the space for 60 service stalls available on the day

Saturday 27th Nov 2022 1:30pm till 4:30pm The Vinery Centre, 20 Vinery Terrace. Leeds, LS9 9LU Please contact jade.cracknell@sense.org.uk for more information

Please could you pass on to any disability related networks and parent led groups who might be interested in attending this important family support related event. All welcome. This is a free event, though registration is required via Eventbrite. Book your place here.  About this eventThe LEaP (Legal Entitlements and Problem-Solving Programme – Cerebra / University of Leeds, School of Law) is hosting a Conference in Leeds on the 18th October. The Conference’s flyer can be accessed here. This conference aims to identify and discuss commonly occurring problems in accessing key legal rights to health and social care – and how these can be addressed. Session 1 will […]