Here’s what we’ve been up so far this year…
December 2023
Thursday garden group are settling in well and today enjoyed a festive get together!
Another great party. Special thanks to the wonderful Farnborough Lions Club for providing an amazing spread for the Gateway party.
Party season has started- just some of the fun being had!!
December 2023
The new rise and fall kitchen sink is a hit, we have some keen washers! A great addition to our facilities our thanks to the Baily Thomas Fund and Cllr Alex Crawford.
December 2023
We had a brilliant Opening and Christmas Fair. Our thanks to David Clifford, Head of Council Rushmoor Borough Council for opening the building and his very kind words. Everyone had a brilliant time and all the staff and trustees were thrilled at all the lovely feedback from our recent refurbishment. Our thanks to the JET singers who once again made the event feel so festive. To all the volunteers we couldn’t have done it without you. Also Aldershot Allotment Assc, S Mellor and T Hassel for your generous donations on the day very much appreciated. Ann-Marie, Kate and Mrs Court for all the homemade creations. The Chelsea football club shirt raised £200!! We took in just over £2800 amazing.
Further thanks to all the companies that made this years raffle just amazing, Aspire Defence, Sodexho -Aldershot- Fleet Co-op- Lush Hairdressers Aldershot- David Lloyd Gym – Mrs C Rodricks- The Works- Squires Garden centre-Men in Sheds-Tesco-Bird world
November 2023
The Life Project has been Christmas shopping today and purchased gifts for those who may not have any Christmas gifts. They delivered to Dunelm who has a charity collection point. Well done everyone that’s so kind.
November/December 2023
Chelsea fans! Parkside have secured a signed Chelsea shirt 14 signatures and a certificate of authenticity!! We are doing a silent auction. So if anyone wants to bid please send sealed bids marked for attention of Jackie Carr at Parkside by 2nd December. The winner with the highest bid will be revealed Saturday 2 December at the Christmas fair. You don’t have to be at the fair but have given contact details with your bid. Please share with Chelsea friends.
November 6-10th 2023
This week, we celebrate Trustees Week, an opportunity to recognise and appreciate the invaluable support and dedication of all the trustees who generously contribute to charitable causes. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Parkside trustees for their diverse skill sets and unwavering support to our organisation.
November 1st 2023
Our thanks to CMPP for facilitating a fabulous and very successful volunteering day. Despite the awful weather everyone got down to the business of relocating our garden group to Parkside. A great day with a great bunch of people THANK YOU ALL!
October 2023
Its been quite spooky here at Parkside with some fantastic dressing up and pumpkin art!
October 2023
Congratulations to Jenny who won the wonderful hamper created by the Life Project all proceeds went to their fundraising efforts for Merlin Passes.
CHRISTMAS FAIR – coming soon.……………
October 2023
Ebony has been learning to sew at Thursday PIP group, just completed her first cushion, looks lovely well done and such a great colour.
September 2023
Our thanks to Winchester City Council and Uni along with GO LD and Every One active for a brilliant PARALYMPIC PERSONAL BESTS event. The group has so much fun despite the heat!!
September 2023
Check this great prize out! You can join either Rushmoor or Hart Lottery and support us. This is a great way to donate and your support is much appreciated!
August 2023
Our thanks to Nathan Court who is doing his own half marathon for the Parkside Life Project. Please lend him your support and sponsor him. He will be doing it on the 15th Sept and will finish his last mile at Aldershot Park and end at Parkside.
Sponsor Nathan here! https://www.justgiving.com/page/nathan-court-1689782994674?checkoutMode=Headless&fbclid=IwAR2eDGK1FX9CWyiVVoCiCHtawfQVxyuLtZ-bItRwhAB3p13NHKJL-Rsvb2s
Thursday 27th July, 2023
Great fun was had at the Alice in Wonderland Tea Party put on by the PIP group. Visitors enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea with homemade cakes and sandwiches. They all made some wonderful props and costumes to really make the event special for all the visitors.
Wednesday 26th July, 2023
Despite the weather the Thursday garden group are doing well selling their plants, produce and creations from the garden.
Last splat session the groups have really enjoyed this activity, along with all the stalls the groups created they have had an amazing time and some brilliant fundraising too!
Tuesday 25th July, 2023
More summer fun but less actual sun! Lots of fun though!
Monday 24th July, 2023
Our first day of fun was full of fun especially the Splat tent! The bottle tombola did well and the cakes they made were popular too! Thank you to all who attended lets hope the rest of the week continues and the sun shines soon!
July 2023
Our thanks to Nathan Court who is doing his own half marathon for the Parkside Life Project. Please lend him your support and sponsor him. He will be doing it on the 15th Sept and will finish his last mile at Aldershot park and end at Parkside. https://www.justgiving.com/page/nathan-court-1689782994674?checkoutMode=Headless
July 2023
Our Thursday Garden group has a community plant sale Thursday 27th July 11am-1pm. They will set up in Parkside’s entrance on Guildford Rd. The amazing arty succulent chair is for sale that day too?
July 2023
Parkside Summer of Fun week! We are planning to have different activities to raise money for all services who are fundraising for an array of different ideas, JET want to go group bowling, Gateway theatre trips, PIP Zumba dancing classes, The Life Project Merlin Passes and more….! To raise as much as we can we need prizes that we can use for all the different activities we have going on! If you can donate new prizes, it would be greatly appreciated. Questions? call 01252 313103 thank you for reading please share……
July 2023
We had a lovely message from Rushmoor lottery see below! Thank you Elena who said
“It gives me great pleasure donating all my winnings from Rushmoor Lottery to Parkside as you have given somewhere for Kieran to go and socialise and make friends for the past years.”
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🌟 Parkside (Aldershot & District Learning Disability) just had a generous donation of £250.00 from a lucky winner! 🥰 Support our cause and buy your chance to win here – https://www.rushmoorlottery.co.uk/support/parkside-learning-disability 🙏 Thank you for all of your support! |
July 2023
Over the past few weeks, the Garden group has been fortunate enough to be invited to visit two gardens. Ramster Gardens near Chiddingfold boasts the largest national collection of rhododendrons. The gardens are truly vast and they only managed to walk through half the grounds. Stacey and Jackie were taken by all the magnificent colours of the rhododendrons, while Derek was impressed with the network of dense branches they formed. Everyone loved the large reflective pond and chose to sit beside it for a little longer than usual, soaking in its beauty and peacefulness.
Chinthurst Lodge was the second garden we visited near Guildford, which is also open to the public in the NGS scheme. We were treated to delicious homemade cakes and teas alongside the white garden which was full of beautiful white roses in their full splendour. The gardens were beautifully kept and had several animal sculptures dotted around. Derek and Heather were debating whether one of these sculptures was a sheep or a hedgehog. Hilary, our host, and owner of the property gave them some Hollyhocks and succulents plants to grow in our garden.
July 2023
The LIFE Project are celebrating Sam’s Birthday today with a meal at Wetherspoons and Sticky Toffee Cake this afternoon.
June 23rd 2023
Saturday Zone had another great session with the Tices Meadow volunteers. Bug hotel making and painting, and lots of art work was done by all.
Thank you to Mark and his team and Jules Crossley for coming to visit. They ended the session with some time having fun in the park.
June 22nd 2023
The Thursday LIFE Project group had a great time exploring the gardens at Hydon End. Cameron said the gardens were Awesome! and Brandon said he really enjoyed the whole day. They had beautiful weather to really enjoy the gardens.
June 2023
Angie one of our Deputy Manager’s took the wonderful Margaret over to the Isle of Wight to see her son Mark and his adopted parents Jill & Mike.
On a brilliant sunny day Margaret and Angie took the Hover Craft from Southsea to Ryde. They then spent some lovely time with Mark, Jill and Mike on Ryde.
Once back at Southsea Margaret and Angie treated themselves to a Knickbocker Glory before travelling home.
Margaret said that she had a lovely day, when Angie asked her what was the best part she said “seeing Mark” how lovely is that.
June 2023
Today PIP had a little bake off competition! All the scones look lovely and tasted even better well done all!
June 5th 2023
So it begins!! our refurbishment project has started we are all very excited! If anyone would like to make a donation to support the project that would be super fantastic. You can donate via www.parksidealdershot.co.uk/donate/
We can’t wait to show it off!
May 2023
The Life Project visited Farnham Castle this week in all that lovely sunshine! They all said the views were fantastic and Marcus said he really loved the history and all the facts about the castle. A great picnic was also enjoyed by all!
May 2023
The Thursday garden group had a beautiful visit to the Vann gardens near Godalming Surrey.
They had a beautiful day walking around the magical gardens and learnt that the house(dating back tp1180), and gardens were used in the filming of Goodbye Christopher Robin. Also the large, natural water feature in the garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll.
They were treated to lovely tea and cake and invited to have a picnic on the main lawn for lunch.
Everybody really enjoyed their day, Heather summed it up beautifully when she asked Liz who lives there whether we could come back next year!
May 19th 2023
Today we had a great visit from Leo Docherty MP and David Clifford Leader of Rushmoor Borough Council . Both enjoyed meeting everyone and viewing all the exciting plans for our forthcoming refurbishment. Chris Harris Parkside’s Chairman was able to explain all the work and modernisation and both were keen to return and see all the changes.
May 2023
The Friday Life Project group visited Chawton where Jane Austin lived. The group had a great time discovering the grounds and touring the house. Marcus said “This is the best house I have ever seen” Daniel said “But this is marvellous.” and Stacey “I liked visiting the chapel and seeing where Jane Austens’ mum and sister are buried ”
May 2023
The Life Project visited Windsor Castle and had a really fabulous time here’s what they thought……….
Mattia said he liked the organ playing in the church.
Amy liked the curtains around the Kings bed.
Bart enjoyed lighting a candle in the church.
Stacey said she loved the chandeliers in the queen’s room.
Daniel loved seeing all the coats of arms in St George’s hall.
Matt wanted to sleep in the Kings bed and Charlotte said she like all the chairs and big table.
11th May 2023
Gateway Champions! Kevin, Taryn and Jill, our new ‘play your cards right’ winners, well done guys.
9th May 2023
This is one amazing prize a chance to win a £1,000 gift card for last minute.com! By joining the local lottery and choosing us you will be supporting our work please join either Rushmoor or Hart lottery https://www.rushmoorlottery.co.uk/…/parkside-learning…
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Police help out!
The LIFE Project group had a great visit from Katheryn, Max, and Rebecca from Farnborough and Aldershot Police Station. They chatted to the group about safety in the community and different scams that happen. They helped the group understand safety in different ways.
They even turned the blue lights and siren on, especially for them to see and hear!
Visit to Winchester Cathedral
The LIFE Project Tuesday group visited Winchester Cathedral and enjoyed a personal tour of the cathedral. Everyone loved the history and sheer size of the building. They were fascinated by the falcons nesting on the roof, and that there could possibly be 3 chicks/eyas about to be born!
Roger Noble visit
Today we were invited by Roger Noble @bradio to hear about the radio station and all that they share with the community. Roger did a little interview about Parkside in the studio. Daniel and Stacey were just brilliant 
Morris Dancing
Another brilliant evening with Hook Eagle Morris. The Gateway crowd had so much fun! A huge thanks to all the Morris dancers who have been supporting us for some 20 years!!
Thursday drama groups perform Naughty Naughty
The Thursday drama group gave us a really chocolaty performance, with a bit of the Queen Vic thrown in too and some fab moves from everyone. The show titled Naughty Naughty was another hit performance!
Easter Bonnet Parade
We had an amazing Easter Bonnet parade today. A huge shout out to Sodexo Aldershot who brought along an enormous amount of Easter eggs. Everyone was a winner but Kevin was chosen by Jackie and her team from Sodexo as a little bit more special. Thank you all!
PIP Youth Group renamed The LIFE Project
Many of you will know about the PIP Youth Group a successful day service designed to focus on maintaining and developing essential life skills. Recently the group decided they wanted to change the name to something that better reflected what they were all about and The LIFE Project was agreed as the new name. A big thank you to Jade Letham who drew a fantastic new logo and to Mia Blake @mblake.design the graphic designer who worked her magic making it the lovely catching logo it is today. The group really got involved in deciding the change so congratulations to all those that attend The LIFE Project keep enjoying!
Saturday Zone makes Bird Boxes
What a great session Saturday Zone just had with Mark and volunteers from Tices Meadow coming in and making Bird boxes with the group. The session was fantastic and everyone went home with their amazing creations. THANK YOU!
March 2023
Throughout March the LIFE Project was PIP Youth group have been helping others. They have done an array of activities that have helped others; donating food, playing bingo with the Hive care home residents, helping out at the library and raising money for comic relief to name a few. They have all done an amazing job and understand the benefits of helping others just brilliant well done all!
Stagecoach donation
Big thank you to Stagecoach for their donation collected from the Santa bus. Thanks to Jack and Aaron from Stagecoach who visited us today and told us all about the amazing time they had with the Grotto bus and maybe lookout for the bus next Christmas!
Local Lottery
What a great prize which might be yours if you sign-up to the Local Lottery and please choose us, every penny counts!!
Good Company entertains Gateway
Thank you to the band Good Company who entertained the Gateway crowd. Everyone loved them they all pretty much danced the whole evening!
New Football group
Week 3 of the new Footie group was a bit chilly but they all powered on, lots of excellent shots on goal!
Margaret takes a walk
Margaret said she wanted a walk in the sunshine, so wrapped up against the cold off they went, with the added bonus of tea and cake at the end.
Wednesday Footie Group
The new Wednesday Footie Group met. Each week 10.15-11.30am they will be playing on the 3G pitch by Parkside. Its only £4 to join each week so do contact Sarah Holder 01252 313103 if you would like to come along!
February 2023
The local lottery is a great way to support Parkside and win prizes. This is the latest brilliant prize if you can sign up and choose us a great way to raise funds for our un-supported services!
Pancake Day
More pancake fun!
Some serious pancake-making and flipping going on with PIP Youth today!
Happy 40th Birthday Hayley !
January 2023
We had such a lovely visit to Tice’s Meadow and a tour of the area from Mark. Who knew this gem was there and the chance to see all the different birds was fabulous. We are really looking forward to working with the team at and the activities they have planned with our Saturday Zone group look amazing!
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