News posts since 2008
Paediatric Physiotherapist Andrea Clarke, the founder of Playskill, has been awarded the MBE in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Andrea started Hertfordshire based charity Playskill in 2006 as a response to the needs of local children with physical difficulties. Her work regularly brought her into contact with families who felt isolated, because their needs […]
National Volunteer week (1-7 June 2018) was a time for celebration at Playskill and allowed us to reflect on the difference our volunteers make to both our staff and families. We are extremely lucky to have over 40 highly talented and skilled volunteers who work relentlessly to support our Playskill family in many different ways. […]
We had a wonderful Spring Watford Reunion party in Watford yesterday. It had rained and rained outside, but inside we had ARK farm visit with a wonderful animal petting area, we had a bouncy castle, face painting, parachute games and singing… then beautiful craft and lots of lovely food to enjoy! We launched our #redforplayskill […]
Just before Easter we had a lovely party for all our younger children, massive thanks to our amazing team of volunteers and staff who work for Playskill some are captured here also- Tracey Smith our new funding officer Big Lottery Fund for coming to see our work at first hand. Huge thanks to West Herts […]
Playskill was delighted to welcome Robert Voss to the group this week, and it was great to see him join in with our children at singing time, and enjoy messy play! He talked also with our parents and asked many useful and informed questions with Stuart Soloway, Chair of Trustees.
Here are some pictures of our spring groups at Hemel, Watford and Garston groups – at Garston we welcomed Zoe Ashworth from Children in Need who came to talk to our parents. We are hugely grateful for their funding for this group. The children have all been making valentines cards for their families, thanks to […]
I’d like to start by giving you the feedback I got from other Mums in our Watford Monday morning group: Ron’s Mum, Amy, wrote: Ron joined Playskill just after he turned one. We joined feeling unsupported, isolated and afraid of the future. After travelling to tonnes of appointments each week we felt like we had […]
We met our daughter Luna on a hospital ward when she was 7 months old after being asked by Islington Local Authority if we would foster her. Luna was born at 24 weeks weighing less than a bag of sugar – she spent most of her first 7 months in hospital and it was during […]
My apologies for starting this presentation with a PowerPoint but that part of Hermione’s story is sometimes too difficult to share. Hermione was in hospital for a mere 4 weeks and we were sent home with the following advice… to establish feeding and watch for further seizures and then to simply wait and see. We […]
From Louisa: Playskill has been invaluable for Neville’s physical and emotional development. When he started his first term, he was a very anxious and frightened little boy, with no strength in his core, back or neck. Since joining Playskill, we have seen him blossom into a happy and sociable little tart who flirts with everyone! […]