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Just Horsing Around!

17 Aug 2022
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Lakers has branched out to the world of horse riding! Our wonderful staff Hannah and Helen head out to Newcastle on a Friday morning. There two classes of members get the opportunity to ride at Coolad...
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🎶 It’s the circle of . . . Friendship!

17 Aug 2022
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  Just like sensory play, friendship circle is a new addition to the our Lakers schedule this year! Lisa leads the class and it’s all about (you guessed it) socializing with buddies – old...
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We Are Bowled Over!

10 Aug 2022
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Bocce is a member of the lawn bowling family which originally came from Italy. It is the third most participated in sport in the special Olympic calendar. Let me tell you a little about the basics of ...
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Sensory Play Hip Hip Hooray!!!!

10 Aug 2022
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Sensory play is a new activity in the club and has been a great success this summer term! Taking advantage of the warm summer weather, the classes have been taking place outside, allowing for lots of ...
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Aye Aye Captain!

3 Aug 2022
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This week our Under 18s went crazy golfing as there Tuesday outing! They all headed out to Pirates Cove in Courtown for the day. The excitement for crazy golf was evident in the bus with Scott and Luc...
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Drop it like its hot!

3 Aug 2022
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Our beloved drop in is back! Drop in hasn’t been a part of the Lakers timetable since before the pandemic hit, so to finally have it back up and running again is such a joy. I mean who doesn’t lov...
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What do you call a robot that always runs into walls? Wall-E.

27 Jul 2022
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Monday’s teen club with Hannah has had a mixture of activities but last week it was all about robots! In week 3 the members drew pictures of what they wanted their robots to look like and in week 4 ...
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Ahoy there Lakers!

27 Jul 2022
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 Summer is well and truly here and with that comes a favourite Lakers summer activity – Sailing! Lakers take to the sea from the middle of June until the end of the summer programme with teachers a...
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Lets Rock and Bowl

20 Jul 2022
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We’ve been having a ball at bowling!! A new addition for the summer program is bowling for our Under 18s on a Thursday afternoon! The class is run by Hannah with our incredible volunteers Claire...
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High Flying Lakers!

19 Jul 2022
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The adults in our summer outing this week got to experience the new Treetop walk in Avondale House and Forrest Park. Just look at these incredible pictures and you can see just how impressive it is! T...
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Bake to the Future!

6 Jul 2022
Charity Stories, Latest News, members
Our teen members were cooking up a storm in the kitchen this week! Our under 18’s cookery class took place on Monday with 3 of our wonderful teen members. They worked on not only 1 but 2 recipes. Th...
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They had a Dinomite time!

28 Jun 2022
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They had a Dinomite time! The teens movie club took their weekly movie evening out and about. Instead of their usual movie and pizza hangout in the centre they took their club on the road. With a trip...
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