Events and activities 2018 – 2022

December 2022

Look what’s coming to the  Aldershot Park area. Check out when Santa’s Grotto will be hopefully pulling up near; enjoy this lovely community event with Stagecoach. Thank you Stagecoach for supporting Parkside !

 

 

 

 

 

December 2022

Wow! We have just collected an amazing donation from The Works store in Aldershot. Our thanks to Michelle and her team and especially their wonderful customers who have given so generously. Merry Christmas to all you community angels!

 

 

Great PIP party last night for PIP Youth too! The second part of the Christmas show was played out to much applause and enjoyed by all who came along.

 

Thank you to all the Harris family for supporting Aldershot and Farnborough Rotary Christmas collections. What a cold day for it!! also thanks to John Knight and Peter Clanchy for collecting too at different venues! Robin looks well wrapped up below!

 

 

 

Happy 40th Birthday to Kirsty we hope you have a great day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today the youths sang some Christmas carols to the residents at Holly Lodge care home. Everyone had a fabulous time singing along. The group were also presented with a lovely gift and card from the staff and residents.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a very busy Christmas Fair. The JET singers were amazing and our thanks again to Terry Owens for his songs and MC for the event. The signed West Ham shirt was won and thank you to West Ham United for donating and for Tracey at the club for organising. Lots of thanks also to all the volunteers we cant hold these events without you!

It’s all go today with Metro Bank staff doing a fantastic job helping us get ready for Christmas! If you are coming to the fair tomorrow check out the Christmas Grotto it’s amazing Huge thanks to Nicky, Brett, Hayley, Vicky, Simon, Maddie, Steve, Jo you are all Parkside heroes

Christmas trip to Squires Garden centre to enjoy some Christmas fun. Looks amazing 

December 2022

It’s starting to feel like Christmas as we prepare for our spectacular Christmas Fair. Come along and join the Christmas fun we have a great Santa’s Grotto and an amazing raffle. Singing from our JET youth members and Terry Owen. Our thanks to the many people who have supported the event Longacres Bagshot Garden Centre,  Squire’s Garden Centres, Tesco Aldershot, Ash men in sheds, Princess Hall Aldershot, Avril, Yinyangclinic and all the lovely donations that have been coming in We look forward to seeing you!

 

 

 

 

 

November 2022

 

 

November 2022

Just to give those that come to Parkside the heads up. Hampshire County Council Highways have notified us of a road closure that will cause delays for those of us accessing Parkside. 21st to 23rd November. Fingers crossed it’s not too hideous!

November 2022

While the weather has been a bit wet of late the Parkside Friendship football group have been out there playing. The group meet alternate Saturdays so if you want to join up get in touch. Next session 19th November. The Friendship group meet 10-12 so if its really awful weather there are activities indoors! Want to find out more call Parkside and ask for Sarah Holder 01252 313103. 

November 2022

A big shout out to Trustees who support a variety of organisations, thank you! https://trusteesweek.org/

November 2022

Some sparkler magic at PIP Youth 

November 2022

A new opportunity to win a fantastic Christmas prize by joining the local Rushmoor or Hart Lottery. Not only are you supporting Parkside but you might win!!

October 2022

Its been so much fun at Parkside for this years Halloween celebrations! Some amazing costumes and the Zumba dancing was spectacular!

October 2022

Fabulous Pumpkin Painting at PIP!

PIP have had some spooky visitors today with some amazing dressing up! Lots of scary dancing had by all!

October 2022

Today we have been using our new interactive screen at Parkside. it’s amazing and everyone is enjoying drawing on it. The staff have identified lots of activities they can do, which is brilliant. Thank you to DL and Farnham Hedgehogs for supporting this equipment.

October 2022

It’s been 3 years since we have held a Christmas Fair do come along support this much loved event!

October 2022

Well done Mike for completing the London Virtual Marathon what a start you are! Mike had support from his daughter and friends at different points. He really is a Parkside hero!

September 2022

JET had an evening of Mocktails and dancing. Jordan on Disco duty and he even taught the whole group a dance. Amy said she had “great night” Charlotte said she was “Happy and fun”. Everyone joined in and had a good boogie. Ben did a fantastic job on the mocktails.

 

September 2022

A great time was had by all at Gateway as they enjoyed live music from the Outlaws band. Thank you to all of the band for coming along and playing for the group it is very much appreciated! 

September 2022

A big thank you to our friends at SGN who have spent the day doing an array of maintenance jobs at Parkside. Days like this really help us keep our costs down and everything looking soooo much better THANK YOU!

September 2022

It’s now less than a week until Mike attempts his 1st marathon (Sunday 2nd October).

Mike said “My aim is to run all 26.2 miles but if I have to walk a bit (or a lot!) then hey ho 🤷‍♂️
I am running to raise money for the Parkside charity (Aldershot and District Learning Disabilities) that I have volunteered with for the past few years – they do fabulous work to help adults and children with learning disabilities who need a bit more help and support in life….

If you would like to make a donation then please visit my fund raising page http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Mike-Hill27 ” 

We want to thank Mike for doing this he is a true Parkside hero!

September 2022

As a mark of our respect Parkside will be closed Monday 19th September to allow staff and clients to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen.

September 2022

The Thursday Garden group had another great visit to Westbrook House in Godalming. Despite the rain the group had a lovely tour of the gardens and sculptures.  Jackie said ” it was very nice garden and i loved the red flowers” Mona said ” i liked the garden and the swimming pool. The carrot cake and brownies were delicious” Sheila liked the black pond, and tall red and purple flowers. Derek loved it all, though struggled to get his umbrella through the hedge openings. Sounds like a fantastic time was had by all!

September 2022

The next great prize has been announced so if you are a Lottery member in Rushmoor or Hart you are automatically included but if you haven’t joined please do. You could win this great prize and you are helping a great cause!!

September 2022

The youths have spent the month of August doing some great team building sessions. They have built and flown kites together, tackled spy and detective missions in Farnham and Guildford, and taken part in some great team games. We’ll done youth everyone! 

August 2022

A great day was enjoyed last week at the 2022 Winchester Paralympic Personal Best event. This popular event is held annually and our guys just loved it!

August 2022

Today we have been enjoying the sensory plants and admiring the next attempt to grow some veg in our lovely new planters. Our thanks to South East Water who have supported the purchase of these lovely containers and plants. 

 

August 2022

Thank you to all the people who supported our pop-up stall we raised £40 which will go back into the garden for seeds etc for next year. More veg will be available from the door at Parkside call if you want to find out what we have. Tel 01252 313103

August 2022

This year we have had some great successes with the growing but of late the weather has been a challenge. Please come along Thursday 18^th August and support our community pop up stall at Parkside, 57 Guildford Rd between 11am – 12.30pm.

August 2022

PIP Youth had a spectacular visit to West Horsley Place with the unexpected field of Sunflowers; they all thought it was just brilliant!! and so this picture shows…..

July 2022

The Thursday Garden group visited Loseley House as part of Open Gardens. They had a wonderful visit arranged and funded by Alex and Suzanne pictured with the group. They finished the day with cake and cuppa in the beautiful grounds.

July 2022

Another great prize could be yours to win by joining the local Lottery. Plus your weekly commitment helps Parkside with all our charitable efforts!

June 2022

More lovely sounds in the garden and on a beautiful sunny day! Our thanks to Rushmoor Lottery for this great piece of equipment.

June 2022

Things are happening up at the Gillian Ave Garden. We will be having some pop up sales of homegrown veg here at Parkside over the summer, look out here for when. Some great prices for fresh food,whats not to love! The NEW raised beds, seeds and compost courtesy of a Farnborough Airport THANK YOU!

June 2022

PIP have really been enjoying the sunshine with fun in the Park!

June 2022

Peter playing the garden chimes just beautifully. Thank you Rushmoor Lottery!

June 2022

PIP Youth have been looking at ‘Ours and other cultures’ visiting Virginia Waters and native American culture (Totem pole). They also enjoyed Mexican food and trying out traditions with the Pinata!

June 2022

PIP Youth enjoyed a water battle and picnic in their bid to stay cool………………… Looks like lots of fun!

May 2022

We had a super fun jubilee celebration at Parkside. A lovely afternoon tea with songs and laughter. We even had the Queen stop by for photos. Thank you Terry Owens for getting us all to sing and join in with you. To Hi-Speed Aldershot for the generous contribution towards the food costs #HiSpeedServices To the Co-op #co-opNeighbourly Queens road for all that bread!! and other bits and bobs! Other shout outs to Rushmoor Council and Yvonne Hayden for supporting item purchases for the event. To Valerie Luff and Avril Huggins for the fabulous knitted Queens. To Anne-Marie Mellor, Sue Percival and the 2 Sarah’s for all those amazing cakes. All this was very much appreciated. We are lucky to be in such a sharing community.

May 2022

The Youth group would like to share a big Thank you to Matthew’s Nan and Grandad for donating this lovely keyboard. They are thinking of starting a band!! 

May 2022

May 2022

Some of the PIP Youth group made African masks. Mandy said they were all very creative and really enjoyed making the masks they even tried out gumboot dancing!

May 2022

Some of the Youth Group visited Shah Jahan Mosque and The Lightbox in Woking. They were not able this time to go inside the Mosque as they were about to start a prayer session. Though they did visit The Lightbox which has a display all about the Mosque and its history. The group all said that it was very interesting and Aimee said she liked the Mosque building.

May 2022

PIP have been making more decorations celebrating the Queens Jubilee, they have really enjoyed all the different art activities and Nicola said its “great fun”. More will be on show at the Afternoon Celebration later in May and all the tickets are now sold out which is brilliant!

May 2022

Here is the latest extra prize that you could win if you haven’t joined the local lottery. Join up and choose Parkside and we receive 50% of the ticket price. All these donations help us run various groups that receive no funding. So join this brilliant scheme and you could help us and possibly win this amazing prize. For all our current supporters you will be entered automatically! https://www.rushmoorlottery.co.uk/support/parkside-learning-disability

13th April 2022

We had a lovely Easter Bonnet parade today and can you recognise the guest Judge? Also judging was our new member staff Sarah H who now looks after the PIP group at Aldershot. Congratulations to Margaret who won Best Bonnet but it was a very hard choice they were all wonderful creations!

April 6th 2022

Thank you to all those members that came along to the AGM last night and a huge thank you to Tom, Kieran, Scott, Joel and Adam who provided such great entertainment; just brilliant, you are all so talented!

March 30th 2022

March 2022

Can you believe Easter is fast approaching and with it the annual Easter Bonnet Parade. Our weekly PIP Drop-in session will be hosting the event and is open to attendees who can be supported by a parent or carer. If you would like to join us its 11.15-12.15pm. Attendees £4 and Carers are free. Make a bonnet and come along!

March 2022

This morning we had such a brilliant time saying farewell to Suzanne who is retiring after 27 years at Parkside! The occasion was was marked by a ‘this is your life ‘ theme narrated by Nicky. There was much laughter and singing and the opportunity to thank this LEGEND for everything she has done for Parkside. She will be enormously missed but thankfully as she explained in her farewell she will be back helping in some way YAY!! We will give her a few weeks off !

 

March 2022

Here at Parkside we are loving the Spring sunshine and PIP had a blast in the Park!

March 2022

PIP Youth will be having some fun this Friday for Comic Relief we hope everyone has lots of fun for this great cause!

March 2022

PIP managed to hold a delayed celebration missing out out on holding their party before Christmas. It didn’t really matter everyone had a really great time and as usual the entertainment was fantastic from the PIP group.

March 2022

Our annual AGM will be Tuesday 5th April 7pm for approx. one and half hours. The JET youths are putting on a talent show so it would be great if you could come along and support this event.

March 2022

Pancake fun at Parkside with the Tuesday PIP group having great fun!

February 2022

Some of the Youth Group enjoyed a day out at the Sea Life Centre in Portsmouth. Looks like a really interesting time was had by all!

January 2022

To all our Parkside Supporters want to run or walk a Marathon then this challenge is for you!

I wanted to find out if we had any Parkside Heroes out there who would like a place in the London Virtual Marathon. You might remember we had two runners who completed this challenge locally for us and raised an impressive £1300!! We would love to smash that record can you help?

This year’s London marathon and Virtual marathon will be Sunday 2nd October. The virtual event is for runners or walkers that can complete a 42km/26.2miles course in their own chosen local area; they also give you 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds to complete! You can use this almost 24 hours to spread your challenge out; I read a story of a lady who did 1.1 mile an hour! There are lots of ways you could do rise to the challenge get your family and friends to join you in parts of your route or make it a family and friend group challenge . Or find a large outdoor space that you can do circuits on and invite people to join you for sections. You might want to work out a route that means something to you landmarks that will spur you on. If you work, you might ask your business colleagues to form a team and make a real team building challenge.

This event is a lovely opportunity for smaller charities like us so please give it some thought. If you complete you get a London marathon t-shirt and finishers medal! Runners are also issued with a vest runner’s number and phone app to help with training, on the day recording of your distance, everything they do for London runners; you just don’t have to travel to London!

I would love to secure Parkside spaces again and would welcome anyone interested to come forward. However, the places are on a 1st come 1st served basis and we must pay £28 per entrant so we are looking for lovely people who could raise a minimum of £200 per entry. We have small window of opportunity to secure places so if anyone is serious about this challenge or has friends or family looking for a challenge like this and to raise some money for Parkside then please can you get back to me by Tuesday 1st February THANK YOU!

Thanks for taking the time to read this wishing you all a happy and healthy 2022!

January 2022

Many thanks to Adam for creating this fantastic poster about the climate and things we all need to be aware of. I thought I would share it with our friends as its so good, thank you Adam!

December

The Monday and Tuesday Youth Group have spent the last few weeks learning Makaton to Rudolph the red nose reindeer they wanted to share this with all  our Parkside friends and wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Its just brilliant!

December

Saturday Zone enjoyed a visit from Santa and a session with Genie Lab doing some cool science experiments and they made pretend snow, fluffy slime and some strawberry sherbet!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

15 November

A great turnout for the Race Night at the Elm Tree pub who were raising money for Parkside. Staff who went along said it was such a great evening and Beverley and Mark the landlords were thrilled with the success of the evening, great news!

11 November

As usual the JET talent show produced a brilliant evening of entertainment. Some great performances, well done to all, the singing, jokes, and dancing was just fabulous!!

10 November

The Youth Group made a visit to the Aldershot Military Museum. They talked about Remembrance Day and made some poppies, everyone found the museum really interesting.  

10 November

Gateway had a great nights entertainment from Terry Owens and a visit from Rushmoor Mayor and Mayoress, Bruce and Tracey Thomas. The group were delighted to welcome them for an evening of fun at Parkside!

8 November

The Youth Group had such an interesting visit to Farnborough Fire Station our thanks to the crew that day on explaining the equipment and letting our guys have a go!

2 November

Thank you to Beverley and everyone at The Elm Tree pub for choosing Parkside to raise money for. Good luck Saturday night if anyone wants to join in the Race Night or support the event do go along to this amazing pub….

October 2021

Some spooky fun at Parkside and some fantastic fancy dress going on!

25 October 2021

Some of the Youth Group joined a fabulous event in Winchester last week. The Paralympic Personal Bests event offered the opportunity for some of our PIP Youth group to try out different activities and push themselves to achieve their best. They all absolutely loved it and well done to everyone!

21st October 2021

PIP are getting ready for their Christmas Party and will be putting on a little show Covid Crisis Hits the Farm! For those that attend PIP please save the date Friday 17th December, 6-8pm more details will follow.

20th October 2021

CONGRATULATIONS to all those that completed the Gateway 10,000 Step challenge last night! you all did fantastically well and what a great fundraiser for the club!

4th October 2021

Huge congratulations to Dan Watkins who completed the London Marathon Virtual run in 3 hours 41 mins!!! outstanding and of course many thanks from us all at Parkside for this amazing completed challenge! We all hope you aren’t feeling to sore today!

ALSO  – Well done Janet another Parkside Hero who completed the London Virtual Marathon. All that training paid Janet and i do hope the knee isn’t too sore. THANK YOU!

September 2021

More lovely visuals of the Youth Group discussing and enjoying some creative arts using finds from their walks!

September 2021

The Youth Group have been looking at green issues and taking responsibility for the planets future, they have been litter picking and enjoying open spaces. They have all really enjoyed all the different activities this month so far…..

September 2021

Thursday Youth Group doing their bit towards looking after our local beaches and litter picking at Hayling Island! They managed to pick up a lot and made sure it ended up in the bin! Emily even dipped her toes in the sea!!

September 2021

Many thanks to our volunteers Adam and Graham for installing the Chime and to Rushmoor Lottery for supporting the project.

September 2021

Our thanks to Carole Johnson for sharing this Downs Syndrome Association link which gives lots of great ideas if you are looking for some on-line activities!  https://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/our-work/services-projects/dsengage/ 

September 2021

Star of the Week the lovely Rachel, who was very focused on our Mr Men crafts celebrations as well as dancing a long to the Grease Soundtrack.

September 2021

JET had a really fab Karaoke evening with some real talent taking to the stage!

August 2021

Following on from all the great work the Thursday garden group have done to the pond they have now completed the project, giving all these fish a new home. Looks like everyone was delighted to welcome the new pond inhabitants!

August 2021

 

August 2021

We were so sad to hear the news that Dave aka Elvis has died. He will always be a Parkside Hero who fundraised and donated so much of his time for us! We have only wonderful memories and our thoughts are with Dee and all the family. He was an absolute star who will forever shine….

August 2021

Nice to see our Trustee John pop in and join in with the Zumba session!

July 2021

Good to see how much everyone is enjoying the new Friendship group both inside and outside at Parkside.

July 2021

This weeks Tuesday PIP group had great fun decorating their Tote bags with Su our artist tutor and then showing them off! Great work!

July 2021

Today we have a visit from the Monday Youth Group who have come along to join in the weekly Zumba class with Hazel. Lots of happy noise coming from the Hall!

July 2021

Parkside has been freshly painted and looking very sunny! Our thanks for this work is courtesy of Alex and his team who did this as a charitable project. What a really lovely neighbourly thing to do THANK YOU!

July 2021

Georgia has a brilliant imagination last week she wanted to create a Tie shop, staff supported her making this FAB creation!

July 2021

Special thanks to Adam Woodcock for his lovely donation. This week the Garden group went off with new tool bags filled with equipment to help them complete their garden work. THANK YOU ADAM!

July 2021

Today we got the chance to say THANK YOU! to these 2 legends Jan and Cath who have both worked for Parkside for over 20 years. Thanks for all your hard-work, everyone at Parkside appreciates all that you both do, here’s to another 20!! Thanks to Chris and John for presenting the flowers.

July 2021

The Rushmoor and Hart local Lottery has come up with a really super prize. Join the lottery and you could be in with a chance! https://www.rushmoorlottery.co.uk/support/parkside-learning-disability  or https://www.hartlottery.co.uk/support/parkside-learning-disability  

July is already busy with our Star of the Week and Wimbledon. Along with some great creative artwork happening with Su on Tuesdays!

June 2021

The Youth group have finally enjoyed a lunch out together; looks like the pudding was a great hit!

Wow great new birdbath and rockery. Well done Stacey putting that together. Looks fab an amazing job!

June 2021

Along with staff our very creative Georgia put together this great Nurses outfit, we love the rather super nurse fob watch!

 

June 2021

Our star of the week Saira. Congratulations for participating in all activities and for your fabulous dancing at the mini disco. We’ll done Saira!

June 2021

Well after all that rain its lovely to have a sunny day. The PIP group have made the most of it with a lovely walk in the sunshine!

June 2021 – Useful Information Easy Read

Easy Read – Transformation Programme Update 8 – June2021

Did you know, NHS and local authority leaders in Hampshire and Southampton have been working together to review the county’s learning disability services – with the aim of designing a sustainable community service, reducing health inequalities for people with a learning disability.

The attached document is the eighth regular bi-monthly update on this project. They have created it in an easy-read format to meet the needs of service users.

Previous updates can be found on their website here: https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/services/learning-disabilities/get-involved/transforming-learning-disability-services/

June 2021

What a lovely day to finally start enjoying our lovely new outside furniture. Our thanks to Farnborough Airport Community Fund and Rushmoor Lottery for supporting our Garden project more to come!

June 2021

PIP Youth have two Stars of Kindness they would like to share with our Parkside friends. Congratulations to Brandon and Daniel!

May 2021

At last the weather has improved enough for the Thursday Garden group to start freshening up the fish pond with a new lick of paint. Good work ladies and we look forward to seeing the end result soon……………..

May 2021 

As services return Parkside is full of noise and laughter again. Below are a selection of ‘Stars of the Week’ we are thrilled that everyone has enjoyed coming back and seeing friends and taking part in activities!

 

March 2021

Spring has sprung! lovely pictures from our super volunteer David who has looked after the garden project throughout the pandemic. I am sure the group will be thrilled to see the daffodil bulbs they put in have now flowered.

March 2021

AGM – April 2021

Our annual AGM will take place 13th April. Due to Covid19, social distancing measures are in place. Please check availability by contacting Jackie Carr Tel:01252 313103 or Email jackie.carr@parksidealdershot.co.uk

February 2021

Exciting news!! we have confirmation that we have been allocated a few charity spaces for the London Marathon Virtual run which will be held alongside the London event which this year is Sunday 3rd October. Runners that get a place on the virtual event still complete a full marathon, but they do it locally to where they live on a course set by themselves. Runners are all given an entry number and there will be technical support to record the run. However, runners have 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds to complete!! If you would like to raise money for Parkside and would like to find out more email parksidefundraising@live.co.uk You get a London Marathon T-shirt and winners Medal. It’s a brilliant way for smaller charities to get involved in this famous event!

February 2021

Wishing Hayley a very happy lockdown birthday. We all sang to Hayley on Zoom and she showed us her pretty new watch. Hayley is having pizza & birthday cake this evening to celebrate. Enjoy Hayley!!

December 2020

Lots of creative activities going on at Parkside am loving the Gonks! and Stacey’s display card wreath is amazing!

December 2020

It was lovely to find these lovely Angels on the gates and front door at Parkside last night. THANK YOU Rushmoor Angels a true act of Kindness very much appreciated by us all at Parkside.

November 2020

Many of you will be aware of the annual tradition of the Rotarian Christmas Float that visits many of our local areas collecting for good causes. Here at Parkside we have enjoyed our annual Christmas collection route around the roads near us in Aldershot. Through the cold, wind, rain we have sang carols and watched the delighted faces of all the children meeting Santa. Sadly this year due to Covid19 they have had to take the difficult decision to cancel the float collections. It is unfortunate as this tradition has been going for over 50 years; however they hope that a Rotarian will take out the float and drive through the usual routes playing festive music and hopefully encouraging the public to donate to all the causes online.
Donations can be made to the Rotarian website or Facebook
www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=859 or www.facebook.com/aldershotrotary

The FAB Cafe will be re-opening Monday 12th October with reduced opening. The Cafe will be open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 10 – 2pm each day. We will be offering a reduced menu, but the Cafe will still be delivering the work experience programme for our young people.

Well done Kirsty ‘Star of the Week’. Brilliant joining in with the seated exercise class, even with your poorly eyes last week! So pleased you are better and joining us in person next week!!

September 2020

September 2020

Another different experience with PIP this week, as some joined us by Zoom. More ways to deliver seated exercises and much laughter!

September 2020

Yesterday we announced our first PIP ‘Star of the Week’ this went to Hayley for settling back in to Parkside after a long break. Hayley has done so well, participating in all activities and making us all smile. Well done Hayley!

September 2020

COVID-19 doesn’t stop our Wednesday Dance off, with or without masks, we had fun!

August 2020

What a hot day for a visit to the Garden project. Sarah and Jackie had a lovely meander with David who has been looking after it. Jackie loves the new seats around the pond and can’t wait to get back with the group and paint them. What with the new pond water feature and the sprinkler system working its all looking green and verdant in the garden!

 

July 2020

The Youth Group took a little walk with their colourful distance sticks and all have a good understanding of what 2m distancing looks like. Matthew was very happy to see B&Q open and hopes they will go in, sometime in the future.

July 2020

Lisa sent this screen-shot of some of the PIP Youth making masks and having a great time, well done to all the Zoomers!

July 2020

A recent visit was made to our Garden to see how our amazing volunteer David had been doing in the midst of the Covid19 situation. David has been kindly looking after the garden project whilst we have been unable to use it. Sarah Jones who looks after the service said “the ladies who attend the Garden Group will be blown away with the array of veg and fruit. We can’t wait for the group to return and see how well the project they started is doing”. Watch this space for a Parkside fruit and veg stall coming at the end of summer! Below are just some of the pictures taken of the produce!

July 2020

Today saw a safe return with some of our PIP Youth. They are making their own 2 metre distancing ruler. K said hers was a poking stick and C said hers was a tickling stick. They look great enjoy your day, really good to see you all enjoying yourselves…….

June 2020

June 2020

June 2020

Next week is Learning Disability Week and Southern Health have provided some resources you might find useful. Use the link below from the 15th to find out more…

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/services/learning-disabilities/useful-information/learning-disability-awareness-week-15-21-june-2020/

June 2020

The Government Test and Trace is now launched. Stay alert to possible scams. This link explains what a tracer will ask you and what they won’t !!

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-test-and-trace-how-it-works

June 2020

Margaret wants to say hello to everyone! today she really enjoyed a little picnic near her home and said how much she enjoyed a little walk out and some lunch!

May 2020

Continuing the happy theme, this lovely picture was taken on a day out in Windsor, lets hope its not long before we are all together again for more fun!

May 2020

VE Day – Although the group celebrations and commemorations planned to mark VE Day 75 can no longer go ahead, some wonderful and creative plans are in place to ensure this anniversary doesn’t pass unnoticed. Love this colouring in  poster. You can also join a sing along Watch BBC One and join in the UK-wide rendition of Dame Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’. Full details, including the words to the song can be found on the Royal British Legion

Open the poster here VEDAY 75 poster to colour (1)

May 2020

As you know we had to cancel the AGM but rehearsals had started with the drama group for their contribution to the evening. Here is little picture of their dress rehearsal. I’m sure it wont be long till you are performing again guys!

April  2020

Anyone fancy a Mini Beast Hunt? This looks like a lovely activity you can find out more here:-
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resou…/T-T-019-Minibeast-hunt-sheet

Thank you Christine for sharing this one looks like you and your little man had fun hunting for mini beasts and love the Bug Hotel you made FAB!

April 2020

It took Bill a bit of time but he is now been enjoying a nice cuppa in the garden and in the sunshine! Make the most of it while it lasts Bill…….

April 2020

April 2020

Hopefully you are able to enjoy some of the lovely sunshine. Halloween feels like ages ago but I felt Wendy’s great outfit deserved another viewing!

April 2020

Margaret hopes you all had a good Easter, she says she has been enjoying her garden and watching the birds. Our thanks to Mog who popped over and cut her grass, the garden is looking lovely Margaret.

March 31st 2020

Today we say goodbye and good luck to Tony H what a star you have been, we shall all miss you! We hope you enjoy your new adventure in the countryside soon. Come back and see us; so we can say goodbye properly!

March 31st 2020

The Rushmoor and Hart Lottery scheme have come up with a great prize; very welcome in the current climate. Parkside as a charity will gain if supporters sign up to the lottery and choose us! To help us continue with our work please support us, for every £1 ticket we receive 50p!

March 26th 2020

To all our Parkside friends and families we hope you are doing okay! I am going to be popping up random happy pictures in the coming weeks. Lets hope time flies by and the Government advice for looking after your health and well-being is useful:
To help yourself stay well while you’re at home:
•stay in touch with family and friends over the phone or on social media
•try to keep yourself busy – you could try activities like cooking, reading, online learning and watching films
•do light exercise at home, or outside once a day

March 2020

Well done Andrew who was able to complete the Liverpool half marathon. Andrew said “my knee’s a bit sore and I’m shattered now, but it was well worth it!” A true Parkside SUPER HERO!

March 2020

The Saturday Scene club getting all creative at Mambo Jambo’s pottery painting!

March 2020

The Co-op Local Community Fund continues to help our Charity and more importantly the FAB Cafe. You can also help by supporting us via https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/34173

February 2020

How nice to receive this letter from a customer who uses the Parkside Garden in Community Service. Thank you!

February 2020

Its countdown for the Liverpool Half Marathon Sunday 15th March. Our thanks to Andrew Gregory who has volunteered to run the Liverpool half marathon raising funds for Parkside, hope the training is going well!. If you want to help Andrew reach his target you can by donating via:-https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/AndrewGregory20

Looking Good PIP Youth!

December

JET Christmas Fun!

The JET group enjoyed their Christmas party and had a special visit from Santa!

Christmas Wishes!

Christmas Fair Fun!

December 2019
What a fantastic Christmas Fair thank you to everyone who came along and enjoyed the Christmas Festivities. We raised a fantastic £2796!! #

We have so many people to thank; AON the teddy was brilliant! Supermarkets that supported us Co-op, Sainsburys and Morrisons. Men in Sheds Ash, Aldershot Baptist Church. The very generous Barclays Bank for raffle and tombola support BRILLIANT! . Everyone that sent in donations for the Tombola. All the stall volunteers you know who you are and we couldn’t do it without you! A shout out to Sam C a member of staff who has provided an array of donations, made an amazing chocolate raffle prize (you had to see it) along with supporting TAB with her mince pies.

The event wouldn’t be complete without our Parkside, Santa who was very busy!

Christmas must be coming it’s Rotary walk time

December 2019

Busy evening in Aldershot with the Rotary Club collecting for charities. Great turnout and thank you to the generous people we met. It was a bit chilly but we did it!

Youth Group visit White Watch!

November 2019

A massive thank you to White Watch at Rushmoor Fire station who showed the youth group round last Friday and taught us how they keep us and themselves safe. Also they explained how we can keep safe in our homes….

Christmas is coming with the help of Metro Bank!

Our enormous thanks to Metro bank for once again helping us decorate the Hall and set up for the Christmas Fair tomorrow. Thank you Nicky, Louise, Hayley, Simon (in the pic) also to Amy and Kelly great teamwork guys! Shane enjoyed singing to you all!
Want to see our amazing Santa’s Grotto? come along tomorrow between 1pm & 3pm and visit Santa!

Christmas Fair is fast approaching

Do come along and support the Christmas Fair lots to see and some of the clients have been working hard to make this a creative Christmas!! Lost of lovely singing and cakes too! Saturday 30th November 1pm – 3pm………

Creepy times at Parkside

October 2019

Many of our services enjoyed taking part in some spooky activities. The Music group put on a fantastic show even if the audience did get a bit wet! There was dancing and general spooking around…..

Success for these FAB Trainees!

September 2019

Congratulations to Andrew, Jordan, Joseph, Amy, and Brandon who all successfully completed 2 years on the FAB Café project, we are very proud of you all!

Half Marathon Hero!

September 2019

We were delighted to hear from Brad Ennis completed the Winchester half marathon in the rain! Brad who is left on the picture enjoyed the event with Uni friends who were also supporting charities. Brad reports “I managed to raise just over £300 for you guys and I hope this will help in some way or another. I managed to run the whole race in an official time of 2 hours and 15 minutes. Which I feel is pretty impressive if you were to see how hilly it was! Thanks again for letting me raise the money and once again, I hope it is helpful to you guys! I may have caught the running bug and will probably end up doing some more in the near future”

Just fantastic thank you !

An Amazing Disney Run!

September 2019

Congratulations to Leanne Court a Senior Activity Leader at Parkside who entered the Disney Paris 5k and 10k run for charity. Even with her ankle injury Leanne completed both runs, we are very proud of her. So far she has raised an amazing £667.50 for Parkside THANK YOU!

Date for your diary!!

Monday out and about Group enjoy a Spin

September 2019

I think its clear to see the Out and About Group enjoyed their recent visit to Mercedes Benz World!

Men in Sheds Creation

September 2019

We have a lovely new bird table created by the Men in Sheds, Ash. Thank you to you all and for Chris Woodcock for delivering it super quick! You can see its already being enjoyed by us and the birds we know will love it…..

Bye Bye Rosemary!

September 2019

Today Parkside said goodbye to this legend! We will all miss you Rosemary, but hope you have lots of retirement fun, you deserve it!

Clear out Day

September 2019

Thank you to R.Collard Skips for supporting our clear out day and David who delivered and collected the Skips, brilliant service. To The Community Matters Partnership for helping us find two volunteers through their Community Action Day which was amazing. Most of all thanks to Tom from Workflow Document Solutions and Nick from Sixth Sense Marketing who made clearing out fun!

Friday Youth Group Travel Fun!

August 2019

Friday Youth have been enjoying their August programme, travel and transport. Looks like they enjoyed Alice Holt and Mercedes Benz World!!

Gateway Summer of Fun – Sponsored Walk and Raffle
August 2019

In July the Gateway Club held a sponsored walk and raffle event. Despite the weather the walkers completed their challenge and with the support of friends and family raised a magnificent £705. Everyone is very proud at this achievement and look forward to next year’s challenge!

Sporting Fun in Farnborough
August  2019

The Wednesday FAB groups got together for a session of Sports Day Fun! we were ably supported by a team of volunteers from RAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) who are based in Farnborough.

The session started with Rowan from RAIB getting us all together in a circle with a football ice breaker. Everyone then went into their teams for a circuit of different challenges. The event finished with a race against each other with a mammoth Egg & Spoon Race. Great fun was had by all.

To finish off the whole group enjoyed lunch on the grass. Thank you to all the RAIB Team who joined in so enthusiastically and of course for lunch!

We hope to see you again.

Disney Fundraiser in Paris!
August 2019

We have another Super Hero Leanne Court one of our Senior Activity Leaders is running on our behalf at Disneyland in PARIS!! if you can help Leanne reach her goal that would be great visit her fundraising page here  

Marathon Fundraiser!
July 2019

Good luck to Brad Ennis who is running the Winchester Half Marathon in aid of Parkside. Brad explained that his sister Casey comes to Parkside and she loves it and he loves what we do here! If you can, please sponsor Brad https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fund…/showROFundraiserPage

New Website

We were very lucky to secure a great volunteer to produce our new website. Thank you Wanda for the many hours you put into this project it’s just brilliant. Thank you to CMPP  for signposting Wanda our way. Plus a shout out again to Shaun Jackson  who kindly joined many of our clubs and projects capturing some great visuals that reflect what we are all about! Not only did Wanda create our website but we also got to enjoy her company at the FAB Café when she popped in for a cuppa. THANK YOU ALL!

JET Quiz Night

July 2019

A Rainy Day for  Volunteer Heroes

June 2019
We are so grateful to our volunteers from AON Farnborough. Despite the awful weather they have completed some essential outside jobs for us. THANK YOU ALL!

Birthday Celebrations for a Special Lady

Happy 70th Birthday to Margaret a long standing client for Parkside and someone who is thought very highly of by all the staff and carers that help her day to day living.

Christmas Fair 2018