News posts since 2008
Julie Groves ran a half marathon for Play skill, here is a brief paragraph about her run. For those of you that know me, know that I have reignited my passion for running and what better way to indulge in my passion but to run for a charity close to my heart, Playskill. I decided […]
Adrian Caroen ran from London to Brighton for Playskill, in 16 hours despite a sore knee, Adrian has currently raised over £780 for playskill and still counting! huge thanks to him! If you would like to donate please visit https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/adriancaroen1
A wonderful Easter re-union party was had at Watford in the Easter holidays – we had face-painting and ballons thanks to Debbie Foster and family, with Easter eggs supplied by Dixons in Hemel Hempstead for all the children. It was lovely to watch the families catching up together. Over 100 came together to play with the […]
We had a very exciting party courtesy of Dixons who kindly donated easter eggs for all the children. Thank you to Simon and Melanie Ekless for these pictures of the party. We were very grateful too for Lynne Parkers lovely music session for the children. It was a great celebration for the news that we […]
Playskill has kicked off with lots of energy and enthusiasm for play this year. A wonderful dedicated team make this happen, and we are very grateful for all the hard work to make such wonderful sessions come alive.
We had a fantastic Christmas party on 10th December despite a last minute technical hitch with Santa being sick! Rev Hughes, Debbie’s father, stepped in and saved the day to all our relief with Andy Gardner helping out at the after school grotto too. We had the most fabulous grotto all thanks to the Webbs […]
Julie’s speech: For those that don’t know me, I am Julie and I have a little boy with hemiplegia. It’s a form of cp and affects the left side of his body. I knew from early on that there was something not quite right with him but lots of people told me not to worry […]
One of the Playskill children and Paralympic fan, Rio Woolf, met with his hero, Paralympic champ Jonnie Peacock, on the track at Lee Valley Athletics Centre during an interview with Channel 4 News to promote Sports Fest – a Paralympic Sports Day in Guildford on 4th December. Rio’s been desperate to meet Jonnie since he […]