News posts since 2008
On Friday we had our Playskill parties thanks to Soul Survivor Watford with a wonderful sensory grotto made by the Webb family and presents donated by the Fence club for all the delighted children who attended, 97 presents were wrapped up in total by an amazing team of volunteers. The first party was with our […]
Playskill is delighted to announce that BBC Children in Need has awarded them a grant over a 3 year period. This grant will fund the new Garston Playskill group established in 2017 and initially funded by OneFamily. This much needed new funding for the group will ensure that this new group can continue to run. […]
In memory of the beautiful Maddie who passed away this October 2017, she attended the group with her mother and then with her sister too in 2008 onwards. She had the most amazing smile and beautiful blue eyes. Her loss was a great sadness and shock to us all. Our thoughts and prayers are with […]
Playskill had it’s second sailing trip for families this year with CVSS at Rickamansworth Aquadrome. The weather was just perfect and we had a lovely time, it was really lovely to have Ben and Serena with us from one of our first groups and Sandra Evans OT who was working in that group too. We […]
In August we had our annual outing. Due to the very soggy weather we got rather wet getting into Aldenham Playground but despite this we had a lovely time together especially in the sensory room and soft-play areas. We had families right from our first ever group to our newest group from Garston attending which […]
We had our end of term parties today and they were a great success!! Our morning parties were for the AM groups and we had a beach theme with water and sand play which was great fun, followed by singing and then lunch all together. It was a really special event and all the children […]
On 20th April 2017 we heard the tragic news that Freddie had died very suddenly. He and his family had been at our Easter Reunion party on the 3rd April and it was a lovely afternoon. Freddie was in our first ever Playskill group and he and his family are enormously dear to us all. […]
Playskill Watford hosted it’s annual school holiday Easter party at Soul Survivor. A wonderful time was had by all as there were lots of options – with face painting, Ark farm with their mobile animal unit, bouncy castle, easter craft and singing!! There was lots of food for everyone to enjoy together. Richard Harrington MP […]
Our newest group at Garston funded by OneFamily was launched this week by High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Stelio Stefanou MBE who visited the group in action on Tuesday 28th February. The launch is the culmination of months of work since Playskill was successful in a big voting campaign in July 2016 with One Family for […]