We offer the chance to experience creative, adventurous indoor and outdoor play in a well-supported environment.
At The Yard, we provide care, support, and opportunities for fun and friendship for disabled children and young people. We encourage families to let go, promoting challenge, personal growth and supported independence for their children.
We promote challenge and adventure for our children and young people. None of what we do at The Yard contains risk for its own sake, but we are there to promote physical development and social communication, and to give children a vibrant experience and sense of achievement. There are few places where children with visual impairments can experience building and lighting fires, and cooking their own food, or build dens, ropes bridges or simple spaces to enjoy their own time. Everyone who uses The Yard is safe to learn and explore through taking controlled risks.
The Yard is as much about emotional as practical support for families. Besides offering informal respite, meeting other parents who face similar challenges gives them the chance to build a network of support and understanding that helps ease the difficulties they often face.
Early Years Sessions – Open to our members from 0-5years old and their families.
Edinburgh – Mondays 1pm – 3pm (children aged 0-3)
Fridays 10am – 11:30am (children aged 0-5)
Early Years Outreach program – Wednesdays 9am – 11am in Clovenstone Community Centre (children aged 0-5)
Family sessions – open to all our members:
Edinburgh – Fridays 1-4pm and Saturdays 1-4pm
Quiet Session – Saturdays 10am – 12noon
Dundee – Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 4pm
14 Drumlanrig Place, Dundee, DD4 8HZ
Kirkcaldy – Saturdays 10:30am-12:30pm & 2pm – 4pm
Sundays 10.30am – 12.30pm & 2pm – 4pm
Argos Centre, Kirkcaldy, KY2 6EJ
All three locations are fully accessible and equipped for children of all abilities.
Address
22 Eyre Place Lane
Edinburgh
EH3 5EH
United Kingdom
Phone: 0131 476 4506
Website: http://www.theyardscotland.org.uk/
Email: helen@theyardscotland.org.uk
