Liberty Child
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| Name of Organisation: | Liberty Child |
| Headline: | Special Holidays for special kids |
| What We Do: | Southampton based Charity, Liberty Child provides free holidays for children and young people with disabilities, physical and mental. Since 2001, thanks to the amazing generosity of our benefactors and volunteers, Liberty Child has been able to take over 120 very special kids on free holidays.
A Liberty Child holiday often provides the kids with their first taste of independence, and a chance to get together with other kids of the same age. The children’s parents and carers also get a very important and much needed break, confident that the children are well looked-after and enjoying a holiday in a safe environment. Parent Carers please note you can get a professional, i.e. health visitor, doctor, social worker, teacher, specialist advisor etc to help support an application PLEASE note: these holidays are not suitable for children with challenging behaviour. Please ask for more details. |
| Area: | Southampton, Outside Southampton
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| Address: | c/o Vitalise (for information on holidays only)
Vitalise Bookings Shap Road Industrial Estate Shap Road Kendal Cumbria LA9 6NZ |
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| Email: | info@vitalise.org.uk |
| Website: | http://www.libertychild.org.uk |
| Services Offered: | We enable children and young people with disabilities to enjoy a week’s holiday away from their routine and usual environment. We provide a full programme of recreational activities, for instance, trips to the beach, swimming sea, trips to the beach, funfairs or the circus, local places of interest, fishing, concerts, group singing, outdoor and creative activities. The aim is to provide the children with the same sort of holiday as other children enjoy, working to ensure that any disability is no obstacle to this. In doing so, we also hope to raise the expectations of the children as to the services and standards that they are entitled to receive as they grow older.
We take children with a range of disabilities, according to the demand, the facilities available at the relevant holiday centre and the number and quality of the volunteers available. Autumn 2010 Holidays: Liberty Child at Netley! For 2010 we changing our approach- we are funding a week’s holiday for 20 children at the Vitalise Centre at Netley Waterside House in Southampton. The Centre will provide all of the care and support and all of the activities. Liberty Child will simply pay the cost of the Vitalise Kids Week 2010 holiday. We are offering only one week and it will not be in the Summer, but half term holiday in October 2010. If this year is a success, we may be able to offer a similar week in the summer of 2011. STOP PRESS When: half term 23- 30 October 2010 Where: Vitalise Netley Waterside House, Netley, Southampton Cost: Free Places available: 20 How to apply - Kids and Volunteers If you know of a parent or carer of a child with disabilities who would like their child to come on Vitalise Kids Week holiday, or if you are interested in volunteering, please look at our website for further information: www.libertychild.org.uk To request an application form or more information, contact Vitalise Bookings-Kids Week, Shap Road Industrial Estate, Shap Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6NZ. Your application for a place or to volunteer must be made to Vitalise and not Liberty Child. If you have any questions, call 0845 345 1970, Fax: 01539 735 567, or email Bookings: bookings@vitalise.org.uk or for General information: info@vitalise.org.uk. |
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| Pat Mark Status: | Not Yet Applied For
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| Related Topics: | Play and Leisure, Health & Well Being, Have a holiday???
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