HAPPY FACES
Welcome to Happy Faces Prudhoe !
Christmas Movie – Nativity – Friday 29th December 2023
On Friday 29th December at 10.15am (for 10.30am start) all Happy Facers and their families are invited to a Movie morning at The Fuse, Prudhoe.
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Parents & Carers Session
Managing Risky Behaviour Workshop
On Wednesday 10th January we’ve invited Vicki McKeown and Haley Muir back to Happy Faces to run an session on Managing Risky Behaviour.
Click here to find out more and book!
About Us
Happy Faces Prudhoe (HFP) is an inclusive group providing social activities for children who have additional needs, along with their siblings.
HFP was established in 2017 to support local children who often find it difficult to integrate into ‘mainstream’ activities and clubs.
We became a registered charity on 31st January 2018 (charity number 1176920) and are managed by a Board of Trustees and Charity Members.
We have a dedicated Youth Worker working alongside a dedicated team of parent volunteers (all DBS checked) for our Youth Club sessions.
We ask parents/carers, who are able to do so, to contribute via a monthly standing order payment as this allows us to focus on the children when they arrive at the sessions. Details can be obtained from the Happy Faces team.
The contributions helps immensely towards the costs of materials, refreshments for the children and venue costs and is gratefully received.
If you have any questions or would like to join us on any of the sessions, please contact us.
Look out for new events on our website and our public Facebook page.
Up to date information can also be found on our private Facebook group – Happy Faces Parents and Carers.
Join us on Mondays
Join our Monday youth club from 5pm until 6.pm at the Family Hub, Broomhouse Lane, Prudhoe NE42 5FT (lane behind Adderlane First School).
Supervised session, Youth Worker led with Volunteer support.
Children who require 1:1 support may need to bring a supporting adult with them – but we ask parents that can leave their children to do so (as the kids have more fun that way and you get a break).
Youth Club
We run a regular Monday evening Youth Club, at The Family Hub on Broomhouse Ln, Prudhoe from 5pm until 6.30pm (end time may change during the darker Winter nights). It is a chance for the children to participate in various fun games, crafts and cooking activities led by our Youth Workers, Alan and Skye, along with a dedicated group of volunteers.
Unfortunately we are no longer able to run our Wednesday evening session at The Castle, Ryton – but encourage you to still go along and use their services as it’s a fab place to take children up to 12 years old.
The average age of the children who attend our sessions is between 6 and 15 but if you have a child of a different age and think they would benefit from joining us, please contact us.
The Youth Club is on during term time (so long as we have sufficient adults to run the session safely. Up to date information on our sessions can always be found on our Private Facebook Group.
Happy Faces Youth Club is a not for profit community interest programme. As such we rely on charitable donations and parental contributions to run, however, we do keep our cost to parents at the absolute minimum.
We want our sessions to be as inclusive as possible, as such we ask parents and carers, who are able, to make a regular donation to support the ongoing activities of the club paid via Standing Order. If you’re not able to attend on a regular basis then a suggested donation of £3 per session would be welcomed. All funds raised goes towards paying for the session youth worker, materials, children refreshments and venue costs.
Holiday Activities
During the school holidays, we often organise adhoc activities and trips. We have visited places like Whitehouse Farm, Beamish Museum and Light Water Valley as well as bigger trips including Cadbury Land and Warner Brothers Studios. In the past we have also organised holiday period additional sessions including dance, trampolining, climbing wall and multi-sports sessions.
We have plans for much more for the future so keep an eye on the website and our Facebook page for the latest information.
We’ll continue to share details of these as they come up – but the more people that take up the opportunities we are able to provide, the more likely it is that we can put on more.
If you have any ideas of things we could do as a group please let us know via our contact us page or via Facebook.
News
Stronger Parents – Stronger Families
Book now for the Stronger Parents - Stronger Families workshop on Tuesday 3rd May 2022. The session is hosted by Vicki McKeown and promises to be a very thought provoking and insightful session. Stronger Parents - Stronger Families Workshop - Tues 3rd May 2022 Happy...
Thank you – Arnold Clark
A very big thank you to Arnold Clark. We have successfully applied for some funding from them.
Welcome!
Welcome to the fresh look for the Happy faces Prudhoe website! Here at Happy Faces we try our best to run sessions that are as inclusive to as many people as possible. If you feel like you can't access our sessions please let us know so that we can try to do something...
What do we do at Happy Faces
On a Monday evening we all get together to have some fun! Between 5pm and 6pm at the Methodist Church in Prudhoe we nornally have craft based activities, food based activities, games talking &. chat and lots of laughter. If you're not sure - come along and find...
What a fantastic summer !
Well , the summer break is nearly over and we can happily look back on the success of our trip to Lightwater Valley Theme park, Dance Workshop with Energize Dance, Trampoling / Climbing Wall workshop with Newburn Leisure Centre and a Multi Sports session run by North...
Lightwater Valley Trip
On Saturday 11th August we are running a trip to Light Water Valley for children with Additional needs and their families. Tickets are £15 per head and includes bus transport from Prudhoe Front Street and the theme park entry. Booking forms can be found on the School...
Happy Faces is now a Registered Charity
It’s official, we are a registered charity. Which means lots more opportunities to raise funds, to have even better activities. It’s taken a while to get there but the tenacity of Angie and Amanda and close working with the team at Northumberland County Council has...
Latest News for the Happy Faces Youth Club
The Youth Club on a Monday evening is having a great start to 2018. We now have a pool table for the children to play with, and more toys and games are coming in all the time. Last week we were growing Cress (results to be seen tomorrow night) as well as making Fruit...
Brill time at Beamish !
Many thanks to the Co-op Funeral care team who donated free tickets for Beamish Museum this weekend. Everyone who went had a fantastic time, despite the pretty cold weather. If you haven’t been to Beamish before it is definitely worth a visit – loads to do including...
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