Post 16 Leisure Links
Adapted Bikes
At Telford Cycle Centre we have the equipment and expertise to provide a range of all ability cycling sessions. Including a set of tricycles and a front loader bike.
For more information visit the Cycle experience website or call Cycle Experience on 0330 024 1783.
Pre-booking required.
Telford Cycle Centre, Visitor Centre, Telford Town Park, Telford, Shropshire, TF3 4EP
Branching Out @ Wyldwoods
Branching Out @ Wyldwoods is the perfect venue for children and young people with additional needs. It is peaceful, tranquil, welcoming and friendly. Our staff and volunteers are all very experienced and understanding and willing to help and support everyone who needs it in a way they can understand. Take part in a whole host of meaningful and enjoyable activities including arts and crafts, gardening, cooking, pottery, soap and natural hand creams, gentle exercise, relaxation, skills building, confidence boosting and stress relieving.
Child and Family Locality Service (CAFLS) Group Activities
Group activities hosted by Child and Family Locality Services.
Charlotte's Tandems
Our borrowers are both children and adults. Tandems are a fun and safe way to get out and about as friends, a couple, family or group. They are available for hire for a couple of months at a time. We now have about nearly a hundred tandems and about a dozen tag-alongs all over the UK. They are with Borrowers for the vast majority of the time but looked after by the Volunteer Helpers listed below. If you would like to borrow one then please use the Contact tab above and Alex will put you in touch with the appropriate Helper. The disabilities and special needs of our borrowers have so far included: Severe Learning Difficulties, Autism, Aspergers, Blindness, Visual Impairment, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Amputation, Hearing Loss, Dyspraxia, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson's, MS, ME, CRPS, COPD, Hemiplasia, Tuberous Sclerosis, CHARGE & MPS III.
Cinema
The Cineworld™ and Odeon™ cinemas provide a range of different services for the disabled they include help for people with sensory and mobility problems. They also cater for autistic children with autistic viewing screens.
The Community Activity and Wellbeing Service (My Options)
The service delivers a wide range of organised community activity programmes such as:
- arts and crafts
- horticultural projects
- outdoor pursuits – hill walking, fishing, boating and canoeing
- sports and leisure - football, rugby, swimming, horse riding
- music and technology
Cycle Experience
Cycle Experience are thrilled to be able to offer a wide range of cycle training activities out of the Telford Cycle Centre, situated in the heart of Telford Town Park. They also provide guided cycling and even training.
Disability Adventure Weekends offer - Pioneer Centre
Through four adventure activities during the course of each weekend we’ll provide you with opportunities to push yourself beyond what you may have thought possible! For example, you can have a go at wheelchair abseiling on our purpose built and specially designed tower. Our fully qualified and experienced instructors will provide you with memories you’ll never forget.
Disabled Children and Young People record
The record is one of the ways that we can get important information to people who need it. The record helps gather information to help us plan services for the future. The record is a database of information about the disabled child or young person and their families in Telford and Wrekin.
Disabled swimming
Disabled Swimming sessions with the Wrekin Special Swimming Club.
Grow the Game
The Foundation’s Grow the Game Scheme provides grants of up to £1,500 for the creation of new football teams and coaching qualifications, with money provided by the Premier League and The FA. The Scheme is delivered by the Foundation.
ican2
ican2 was created as part of Telford & Wrekin Council's short breaks pathfinder project ran from April 2008 to March 2011.
The ican2 Short Breaks programme is about providing activities for children and young people living in Telford and Wrekin with a disability or additional need - children who have, or would experience, difficulty attending groups, clubs or facilities without support. Short Breaks covers a wide range of provision from universal (open to all without the need for any assessment or specialist support) through to specialist (for example hospices and overnight residential care).
Children and young people are eligible for short breaks if they have a physical or learning disability, a hearing or visual impairment. It includes children with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome and children who may have challenging behaviour as a result of their learning disability. It also includes children who have complex needs and who may have palliative, life limiting or a life- threatening conditions.
ican2 providers:
- Access to Activities - Holiday programmes, forums, groups and workshops and much more.
- Kreative Kidz - Creative movement, dance, drama, drawing, music, painting and much more.
- Sports and Leisure - Athletics, badminton, ice skating, bowling, climbing wall and much more.
- Club 17 - Air hockey, arts and craft, pool, table tennis and much more.
- Shining Stars Group - A group with a range of play activities for children 0-5 years, who have an additional need.
Ice skating
Go ice skating at the Telford Ice Rink. Go with parents or friends and free skate and have fun!
Inclusive swimming lessons
All four pool sites within Telford & Wrekin (Wellington, Abraham Darby, Oakengates and Newport Pool) provide separate Junior and adult disability learn to swim sessions and these have been developed to bridge the gap between 1-1 lessons and mainstream classes. Fully qualified ASA swimming teachers at these sites deliver the disability lessons with enhanced knowledge of disabilities and cater for all abilities from beginner and upward, the emphasis is on learning through fun based sessions following the ASA Alpha Awards with a goal of working towards accessing mainstream swimming classes.
For more information contact one of the Swim4Life co-ordinators below based on your preferred site. The co-ordinators will then be able to determine the best way forward with the disability sessions.
Abraham Darby Sports & Leisure Centre
Email Matthew Haskew: matthew.haskew@telford.gov.uk Telephone: 01952 382770
Wellington Civic & Leisure Centre
Email
Ruth Giblin: ruth.giblin@telford.gov.uk Telephone: 01952 382720
Oakengates Leisure Centre
Email
Tracey Jones: tracey.jones@telford.gov.uk Telephone: 01952 382810
Newport Swimming Pool
Email
Rebecca Nicholson: Rebecca.nicholson@telford.gov.uk Telephone: 01952 382740
Inclusively Fit Project
The project will endeavour to make sport and physical activity more accessible to disabled people by creating a web based activity directory showing what is currently being delivered around Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Perry RDA
The Cavalier Centre will be a designated centre for the Riding for the Disabled Association, and the home of Perry RDA Ltd, one of over 600 RDA groups throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland providing people with disabilities with the opportunity to improve their physical and mental health through education and fun with horses.
Tag Rugby
Tag rugby is a non contact, fun sport, which helps with confidence, boosting self esteem, encouraging teamwork; it also helps keep children fit and healthy. We meet at the Dome at Telford College of Art and Technology (TCAT).
Telford Library Services
Telford Library offers a vast range of services to the disabled. Services included are audio books for people that are hard of hearing and big text books for people with sensory problems.
Telford Leisure Services
More and more people are realising the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Feeling fit and healthy is a key element of physical and mental wellbeing and exercise is a great way to look after your body and a perfect way to relax.
Telford Summer Cycling
Travel Telford have an exciting programme of cycling activities for children and adults of all ages and abilities. The activities offer people the opportunity to take part in a range of cycling skills, games and competitions, make new friends and have fun whilst riding their bikes!
Town Park
Our new inclusive play area was completed in March 2013. The new play area has been designed with disabled children and young people in mind and provides equipment for all abilities within an open park setting.
Wheelchair sports/activities
Wheelchair Tennis
First Point Telford Tennis Centre – Oakengates
Monday evenings
£5 per session
Email - scott@sportingclubrhinos.com