Spokey Dokey Badge Club

25/03/2026

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23/03/2026

Spokey Dokey Badge Club is coming to Homestead Park

We're running our Easter SEND holiday club on 2nd and 3rd April

Suitable for ages 8-16

We have a high staff ratio and experienced staff

Send us a message to find out more

19/03/2026

SEND holiday club at Homestead Park in York.

Use your HAF voucher now
Or message me.

And good news we have now got funded places thanks to Asda Foundation!

06/03/2026

🎉 Badge Club is now live on the HAF York website for Easter!

As soon as HAF vouchers go live, you’ll be able to book your child’s place with us for Easter. Badge Club is SEND-specific, supporting children with high sensory needs in a calm, structured environment.

We run a 1:2 staff-to-child ratio, and each session is limited to just 8 HAF place (10 in total) places to give every child the attention they need. 🌈

Badge Club provides small, inclusive activity clubs designed for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), particularly those with high sensory needs. We specialise in creating calm, structured environments with high staff ratios so children who may struggle in mainstream holi...

26/02/2026

Tom from AAC and Me, Specialist AAC Support is available tomorrow morning (Friday 27th February) for any questions you have about assisted and augmented communication.

Please drop him a line info@aacandme.co.uk

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23/02/2026

🌟 PA’s WANTED – Spokey Dokey Badge Club (York) 🌟

We’re looking for enthusiastic and reliable Personal Assistants (PA’s) to support disabled children at our Spokey Dokey Badge Club this Easter!

📍 Location: Homestead Park, York
📅 Dates: 2nd & 3rd April
⏰ Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
💷 Pay: £17 per hour (paid lunch included)

This is a fun, active, and rewarding role supporting children to take part in structured badge activities during the school holidays – when very limited provision exists.

✅ Must have an enhanced DBS check
✅ Experience supporting disabled children preferred
✅ Positive, patient and proactive attitude essential

If you’re passionate about inclusion and want to be part of a brilliant holiday club experience, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 Please message us directly or email rob@badgeclub.org to apply.

19/02/2026

I’ll get everything up online ASAP and will post here the minute it’s live. Keep your eyes peeled 👀✨

18/02/2026

We’re back from today’s Badge Club x SENses session and it was such a lovely one.

It was really nice to welcome a few more families than last time and the hall had that easy, settled feel from the start.

The marble run was the clear favourite, closely followed by the train tracks and a surprisingly enthusiastic parachute moment.

It felt relaxed, friendly and genuinely welcoming. Exactly what we hope for.

Claire from Badge Club will be at SENses tomorrow morning (), so if you’d like to hear more about our Easter holiday clubs, do come and say hello.

14/02/2026

🎉 Badge Club x SENses – The Giving Edition 🎉

🗓 Wednesday 18th
⏰ 12–2pm
📍 The Folk Hall, New Earswick, York

This week our theme is Giving 💛

Thanks to funding from The Giving Machine, we’re creating a space to explore helping, kindness and community in ways that feel playful and accessible.

Expect:
✨ Soft play
🥁 Musical instruments
🌈 Sensory tent
🎖 A real badge-making machine – design your own “Giving” badge to take home
🚴 Meet Spokey Dokey
🏕 Find out about our holiday club

Drop in. Stay. Connect. Make something.
Let’s see what happens when kindness becomes hands-on.

12/02/2026

💛

Belonging builds confidence.
Play builds resilience.
Being understood builds wellbeing.

That’s what we’re about at Badge Club.

And this Easter… we’re back 🌷🐣
Holiday Club details coming soon.

05/02/2026

Badge Club check-in 👋

Life’s been a bit busy and a bit challenging recently, so before I charge ahead… I want to ask you.

We could run Badge Club on 19th & 20th February at the Whixley Village Hall.

The hall is on standby, the toys are booked from the toy library, and we’ve even had a very generous donation via The Giving Machine ❤️

A few practical bits:
Building works at the front door (still accessible, just not pretty)
No staff this time, but parents, carers and PAs are very welcome to attend and support
Free tea & coffee ☕
Easy parking 🚗
Level access and an accessible loo ♿

So the real question is…

Do you want it?

If there’s appetite, we’ll make it happen.

If not, we can pause and aim for Easter, when things (hopefully) feel a bit calmer and we may have Feast and HAF funding lined up for Knaresborough and York.

No wrong answers. Just trying to do the right thing at the right time 💛

Let me know: go ahead in Feb, or wait for Easter?