Our Voice

Our Voice are currently running a series of Positive Behaviour sessions: 

• Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support workshop on 22nd May, 12th June and 26th June. You can see the presentation from this session here. More details are on our events page and the flyer here. 
• Positive Behaviour support drop-in sessions where you can discuss individual questions relating to your child/young person's behaviour. Sessions take place on 7th June, 5th July, 6th September, 4th October, 1st or 8th November (to be confirmed) 6th December, 10th January, 7th February and 7th March. See our events page and the flyer for more details. 

Please note - it will normally be possible for Cheviots to provide creche facilities and/or a translator for any of these sessions. Please give as much notice as possible if you need either of these.  

Our Voice are currently running a series of Positive Behaviour sessions: 

• Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support workshop on 22nd May, 12th June and 26th June. You can see the presentation from this session here. More details are on our events page and the flyer here. 
• Positive Behaviour support drop-in sessions where you can discuss individual questions relating to your child/young person's behaviour. Sessions take place on 7th June, 5th July, 6th September, 4th October, 8th November, 6th December, 10th January, 7th February and 7th March. See our events page and the flyer for more details. 

Please note - it will normally be possible for Cheviots to provide creche facilities and/or a translator for any of these sessions. Please give as much notice as possible if you need either of these.  

Enfield's Educational Psychology Service is running a two-part workshop (with either online or face-to-face options) for parents and carers of children and young people who find it hard to attend school for emotional reasons.

The sessions are:

Online on Tuesday 4^th June and Tuesday 18^th June

Face-to-face Monday 10^th June and Thursday 4^th July.

See the flyer here for more details and the link to sign up. 

For any queries please Email eps@enfield.gov.uk

Do you need help for YOU to be healthier and happier in caring for your family?

Our Voice are delighted to be offering our Healthy Parent Carer course to anyone who is the parent-carer of a child or young person with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities who lives or attends school in the London Borough of Enfield. This course has been designed specifically for parent-carers and is about your own well-being – it is not a parenting course or about how to get support for your child.

We are running this course every Tuesday morning from 11^th June until 16^th July, in person at the Craig Park family hub, over 6 weeks, 10 am to 1 pm. The course is run by facilitators who are parent carers themselves.

We will be providing a Turkish-speaking translator for this course, and we particularly welcome Turkish speaking participants, and will give priority to this group.

Please see the attached flyer for more information, or call us on 07516 662315 or Email ourvoice.hpc@outlook.com. You can sign up here. 

For Turkish speaking parents

Flyer in Turkish

'Positive Co-Parenting of Neurodiverse Children' is an 8-week online facilitated group designed for parents living together or apart who are facing conflicts and struggling to find common ground in raising their neurodiverse child. 

The two courses will run via MS Teams on Tuesdays from 14th May to 9th July from 7 pm to 9 pm or on Wednesdays from 15th May to 10th July from 9.30 am to 11.30 am

Details and QR code to sign up are on the flyer here or call 0204 522 8700 or 0204 522 8699. 

We are delighted to be offering support for parents and carers to use Positive Behaviour Support to help create an environment at home to create an environment to improve the quality of life for their child/young person and the whole family. 

We will be working jointly with professionals from the Joint Service for Disabled Children to offer: 

• Monthly drop-in sessions at Cheviots on Friday 19th April, 3rd May, 7th June and 5th July. See the flyer here for more information.  
• Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support workshops for parents and carers from 10 am to 12 pm at Cheviots Childrens Centre on any of the following dates: 24th April, 15th May, 22nd May, 12th June and 26th June (these are repeat sessions so you only need to attend one). See the flyer here and book your place by emailing Clare Redrupp at cheviotsshortbreaks@enfield.gov.uk 

Better Leisure, who now run Enfield’s Leisure Centres, are offering a discounted membership for unpaid carers. The membership offer will run from 1st April -14th May and provide anytime access to a Better leisure facility at the discounted rate of £30 per month. This includes access to the gym, swimming, fitness class classes and the health suite.  This promotion is available for anyone in receipt of Carer’s allowance or members of Carers UK. If you are not already a member you can sign up for free membership at Become a free member | Carers UK  Membership join link for the Better Leisure discounted membership: https://www.better.org.uk/join-membership

In addition, they are holding two free welcome days on 27th April

• Southbury Leisure Centre (11.30 am to 3.30 pm) - see the flyer here
• Southgate Leisure Centre (2 - 4.30 pm) - see the flyer here

Throughout April Carers UK will also provide a range of online physical activity sessions and information on staying active.

Our latest 'What's On this Easter' guide has information on a variety of SEND-specific and accessible events, activities and over-the-school Easter holidays. 

Don't forget to also have a look at our general 'What's on- Play and Leisure in and around Enfield' Guide here which is regularly updated with ongoing SEND-specific and inclusive events (please note that some of these are term-time only, so if you are planning to go along to anything, please check first). 

The information in the booklet is correct (to the best of our knowledge) at the time of writing, but please do check with the individual venues and schemes, and please bear in mind that many activities and events must be pre-booked. 

The Local Authority's most recent booklet on playschemes for the school holidays is available here and there is additional information about the playschemes on the Local Offer here. 

We're pleased to announce that we are now signing people up for our next Healthy Parent Carer courses which will be running in -person at the Craig Park Family hub from 10 am to 1 pm for 6 weeks. The options are:

• Every Tuesday morning from 16th April until 21st May: with the option to have translation into Somali
• Every Friday morning from 19th April until 24th May: with the option to have translation into Bengali 
• Every Tuesday morning from 11th June until 16th July: with the option to have translation into Turkish

This is not a parenting course, or about how you can get support for your child/young person - it is about your own well-being and will be run for small groups by trained facilitators who are also parent carers and understand the challenges. 

Please see the flyer here for full details of the course, what it is about and who it is for. 

If you speak Somali please see the flyer here

If you speak Bengali please see the flyer here

Flyer in Turkish to be added after the Easter break. 

If you are interested in attending the course please click on the link here to complete the short form as soon as you can,  so that we can get back to you before the School holidays. 

Places will be allocated once we have had an initial discussion with you to make sure that the course will work for you and you are happy to commit. 

There are only a limited number of places on each course so don't delay! 

During the school holidays, there will be SEND cycling sessions at Firs Farm Wetlands Park on Tuesday 2^nd April and Tuesday 9^th April – see the flyer here for details.

There is also a community hub café which has fully accessible toilet facilities with a hoist and changing bed.