Free Respite for Carers - Knighton and Machynlleth

Group sessions with trained counsellors. 

When you’re caring for someone with dementia, it can be all too easy to ignore your own needs and to forget that you matter too. It’s so much easier if you look after your own health and well-being and can talk to someone, who understands… 

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Play Montgomeryshire Plays throughout North Powys

Play Montgomeryshire Plays throughout North Powys

 
Play Montgomeryshire is running a number of Play Projects throughout North Powys this May Half Term. They are joining up with Newtown Library again and are bringing crafts out of Africa for the session by running a Craft Workshop and Story Telling at Newtown Library on Tuesday 26th May from 1.30 to 3.30pm. Newtown Library will be reading  stories to the children from 1.30pm, and Play Montgomeryshire will be running a Stay and Play session for children of all ages from 2 to 3.30pm.  The Stay and Play craft session will involve craft activities related to Africa, plus toys to play with and join in with their friends. As usual members (membership is free of charge) may buy craft materials to do their own crafts over the Holidays. All children are welcome to join us at these Play Sessions in Newtown Library - there will be something for all ages.

Play Montgomeryshire is continuing its play sessions on Bryn Y Gog Estate in Machynlleth over the half term on Tuesday and Thursday 11am to 3pm all free of charge. All play will be outdoors and include a range of loose parts that kids just love to play with - Tarpaulins, ropes, bats and balls, paint and paper etc. The play will take place  just outside the closed shop on the green. It will be staffed by Play Workers who will support free of charge, free of spirit play with local children.  

The same type of play will be taking place for the children of Oldford, and the rest of the Welshpool area to enjoy, just up from the Skansis Pitch on the Tuesday from 2 to 4pm and the Thursday 1 to 4pm.

The Stay and Play sessions at Machynlleth Community Church will continue during the holidays on Wednesdays from 10 to 12am, as will the craft sessions on the first Saturday of the month from10.30 to 12am. Newtown Library craft sessions will be on the last Saturday of the month at the same time.

For more information please phone 01686 626713, email admin@playmontgomeryshire.co.uk or visit our facebook page (Play Montgomeryshire).

Bilingual Poster Play Oldford

Bilingual Poster Play Bryn y Gog

Bilingual Poster 2015

Staff Wanted Urgently

WANTED

Play Workers 

To work in an Open Access Play Project on

Bryn y Gog Estate in Machynlleth 

2 x 2 hour afternoons after school term time and

2 x 4 hour sessions in the school holidays

From Easter to October Half Term

For more information email admin@playmontgomeryshire.co.uk or phone 01686 626713 (please speak very clearly and leave a phone number)

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Welsh speaker and qualified preferred, but not 

essential.

Must be over 18 years of age and able to

have fun !

Play Montgomeryshires Summer of Play

Play Montgomeryshire

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Registered Charity Number / Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1000016

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Play Montgomeryshire are running a number of play events during the summer, attached are posters and fliers for each of them.

• Splash of Play in Machynlleth, Caersws, Newtown and Welshpool
• Playdays in Llanfyllin and Llanidloes
• Stay and Play in Machynlleth and Newtown.

Bilingual Poster Splash of Play - Please Click Here

Bilingual Playdays Poster A5 - Please Click Here

Playdays Poster Eng - Please Click Here

Playdays Poster Welsh - Please Click Here

Bilingual Stay and Play Poster Machynlleth - Please Click Here

Bilingual Play and Craft Sessions Newtown - Please Click Here

For further information please contact Play Montgomeryshire on Tel 01686 626 713 or email admin@playmontgomeryshire.co.uk

Playing in the May Half Term

Play returns to Montgomeryshire

Play Montgomeryshire are bringing two play sessions to Newtown and Machynlleth during the May half term Holiday, and one in Welshpool and Caersws - all of them free of charge.

They will be running a Splash of Play, outside in 

Machynlleth on the Bryn y Gog Estate, on Tuesday 27th May from 10am to 12 noon

Caersws at the Main Street Playground, on Tuesday 27th May from 2 to 4pm

Newtown Town Park near Radio Hafren, on Thursday 29th May from 10am to 12 noon.

Welshpool on the Oldford Estate near Scansis Pitch, on Thursday 29th May from 2 to 4pm

Activities will include games, crafts, dressing up and woodland activities. It is free of charge and open to all children. The activities are targeted to children aged 8 to 12 years old, but other children are welcome. Teens can enjoy supporting the younger children (and do a bit themselves), whilst children under 8 years will need to bring their own responsible adult who can also join in the fun!

 

They will also be joining up with Newtown Library to play and do crafts about ponds and bugs, on Tuesday 27th May from 10am to 12 noon in Newtown Library. The Library Staff will be reading stories to the children and Play Montgomeryshire will be running a Stay and Play session for children of all ages afterwards.

The Stay and Play sessions will involve a wide range of interesting and challenging craft activities, plus toys to play with and join in with their friends. Activities include Pond plates, pipecleaner bugs and magic butterflies.

There will also be the regular Play Montgomeryshire last Saturday of the month  craft session from 10.30 to 12 from 31st May onwards.

The usual Machynlleth Stay and Play in the Machynlleth Community Church will be running on the Wednesday from 10 to 12, their Saturday craft session will be on the 7th June from 10.30 to 12 noon.

The Stay and Play's also operate a Play Resource Library, selling low cost craft items and loaning toys for a small fee. Membership is free of charge, but you do not need to be a member to come and play.

For more information please phone 01686 626713, email admin@playmontgomeryshire.co.uk or visit our facebook pages (Play Montgomeryshire and Machynlleth Toy Library).

For Splash of Play poster Please Click Here

For Play and Craft Sessions poster Please Click Here