Laughter Yogo at Woodham Community Centre

Today we went to Woodham Community Centre where we took part in a Laughter Yoga taster session as part of the Grow Your Community course. It was a right laugh!

 

 

Posted by Shaun New

Options Summer Festival

Yesterday we had our second annual Options Summer Festival. We started the day with a coffee morning where people made a donation for a tea or coffee and one of our delicious cakes or scones. The 12-hour sponsored Sing-along-a-Danceathon kicked off at 8:30am with Options members and staff taking it in turns to sing and dance for 12 hours throughout the day. We ran stalls including a tombola, raffle, guess how many sweets in the jar and guess the name of the teddy. We also had a treasure hunt, penalty shoot out and face painter. The day ended with a BBQ and a big last dance to celebrate the end of the Danceathon. In total we raised over £1,000 for Options again so we'd like to say a massive thank you to everyone who came and supported us!

Posted by the Options Group

Great Options Bake Off

Today we baked for the full day getting ready for the coffee morning as part of the Options Summer Festival tomorrow morning. We made just over 200 cakes and scones! We made orange and cranberry scones and cheese scones, and vanilla and chocolate cupcakes. We decorate the cupcakes with butter icing. Come down tomorrow morning between 10:30am and 12pm to try one!

Posted by Keli Selbie

Penalty shoot out

Today the goal came for our penalty shoot out stall at the festival so we decided to try it out.

Posted by Danielle Barlow

Rounders at Social Club

Tonight we played rounders at Social Club out in the garden. It was good fun and we enjoyed the exercise.

Durham Trip

Today we went to Durham on the bus and a picnic in the market square.

Posted by John Snaith

Putting Festival Posters Up

This afternoon Ben, Charlotte, Kevin and Brian went to put up posters around the town for our summer festival. We called in at the Party in the Park fair at Woodham and got contact details for a face painter for the event. Then we went to Woodham Community Centre, Tesco, and the town centre to stick up more posters.

There was an animal themed fair on in the town centre where Kevin and Brian petted a blue-tongued lizard and had their photo taken with an owl.

Gardening

Today we were out in the garden raking the stone walkway to tidy it up.

 

Posted by Phil Thompson

Sponsor Us! Options Summer Festival

On Thursday, August 25th we are having our Options Summer Festival! As part of the festival we are having a sponsored 12-hour Sing-Along-A-Danceathon raising money for the Options project. The money raised will go towards new equipment including a new iPad and to fund new learning activities and trips.

Any sponsors are greatly appreciated it, we are raising money online at https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/options and our goal is £250! Please help us reach our target.

Thank you very much.

From all at Options

Redcar Trip

Today the Monday group went to Redcar on the train. We had fish and chips at Oliver's restaurant which was beautiful. Then we split up into two groups and a few of us went for a walk on the beach and a paddle in the sea. The other half went up the pier. The weather was lovely and we all had a great day out.

 

 

Posted by Options Members

Summer Festival Planning

Planning for the Summer Festival is going great. The members have been planning and working on the stalls and games that will be taking place at the festival.