Kingfisher Day Centre

Kingfisher is a Day Centre for 21 – 75 year old physically disabled/mental health issues and/or cognitively impaired adults. We accommodate a range of disabilities and are flexible in our approach and methods. We have 5 members of staff and the groups generally have 20 clients.

We undertake a variety of activities at the centre, for example:
- cooking
- personal projects
- making seasonal gifts e.g. Christmas/Easter
- arts and crafts
- games/quizzes/debates
- fundraising coffee mornings
- Christmas party/Summer ball
- making bags/clothes/scarves etc
- some just like to come and have a natter with friends they have made at the group
- and many more!

It is encouraging to see that people that meet at Kingfisher, begin to form such good relationships with others that they start meeting outside of the group as well and improve their social situations. The majority of the clients are with us because their disability has led them to become socially isolated, to different levels, and thus their confidence and self-esteem have been affected. Although the activities we arrange do help with development for some injuries, such as memory games etc, as a whole we are a social inclusion group with the aim to give people the opportunity to get out of their own environments, form relationships, become socially more confident and experience new things with our support.

Our clients are encouraged to tell us what they would like to do. It is their day centre, we only assist in helping organise things. All clients each have a choice once a year on an outing, usually when it is their birthday. We try to take them any where they ask if it is logistically viable! Some of the outings we go on are listed below:
- Garden centres
- Walks in the park
- Bowling
- Pub lunches
- Picnics
- Cinema
- Galleries/Museums
- Local places of interest
- Shopping
- BBQs
- Zoo
- Concerts & musicals