Centre Snack Attack activities April 2019 March 2020 - Winshill

Winshill Neighbourhood Resource Centre
                                  (WNRC)
                          Charity No. 1158268

             Centre Snack Attack activities
                   April 2019‐ March 2020

April 8th ‐11th 2019
Easter Bunnies in and around Winshill
(In Partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)
Some of our Centre Volunteers dressed up last year and gave Easter eggs out
in the street outside some of the local Schools, as this went so well, we
thought we would expand on the idea.
3 of our volunteers dressed up as Easter Bunnies and asked for donations of
Eggs, we were inundated with eggs to give away, with over 2000 small eggs,
we went out and about as the Easter Bunnies.
The bunnies went to the local schools, the Newstart charity shop, the Burton
Market, the local Lunch Clubs and events that were on, in and around Winshill
giving away eggs, it was great to see the children’s faces and the parents were
also happy to receive an egg. We also had lots of larger eggs donated and we
gave them out at our Youth Club and the Easter Lunch.
The bunnies were out and about for 2 weeks and we felt the community really
embraced the Easter bunnies and we even had requests to go to different
groups and events next year if possible.

Easter Bunnies Out and
About!

                         Over 2000 Small and
                         large eggs donated

                         April 10th 12‐3pm &

Easter Eggs
Community Easter Lunch
(In partnership With Wishes 4 Winshill)

11 Children / 30 Adults
We had a lovely Lamb roast Dinner for Easter with all the trimmings, this was
provided for people of all ages, the conversation flowed nicely between the
ages and of cause the Easter Bunnies arrived and gave out some of the larger
eggs that had been donated, some of our older members have no family so got
very emotional when being given an Easter egg as it’s not something they
would normally receive.

April                                                             16th
Snack                                                             Attack‐

3‐5pm & food Bags
Magical Mayhem
35 Children/ 21 Adults
‘Our Snack Attack Club’ started about 2 years ago, providing meals for those
families in our community with a child under 7yrs, all children under 7yrs
normally receive a free school meal in term time and we realised there was a
need in the school holidays to help provide food for not only those under 7yrs
but the whole family, we also realised not all family have access to transport to
take the children out or even have the finances to do that, so we set up the
Snack Attack Holiday club, where we provide entertainment and a meal for
families to enjoy during the holidays.
Magical Mayhem is always popular, so he does an hour Magic show and we
provide snack bags with a treat and a picnic lunch with fresh fruit, sandwich,
cake, crisps and a drink for everyone.

May 28th   Snack

Attack 3‐5pm & Food Bags
Phat Magic
38 Children/21 Adults
The children really enjoy Phat Magic as he does abit of everything and they all
get a balloon model at the end of the show, Eddie (Phat Magic) is very good
with those families who have children with additional needs and tailors his
show accordingly. We did a food bag again as this is easier when there are a lot
of children.

May 31st Breakfast Club 10‐12pm & Crafts
20 Children/8 Adults
We provide a full cooked breakfast consisting of Bacon, Sausage, egg
(scrambled, fried, boiled, poached.) beans, tomatoes, toast, cereal, fruit and a
drink, everyone is welcome and can have a combination of any of the foods.
We also provide an activity for the children.

20th July Family Action Trip to Sudbury Hall
(in partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)

200 food Picnic bags provided
This trip was organised by Family Action who were celebrating 150 years of
their organisation, we were asked if we would like to take charge of a coach
from Winshill and they would do another coach from Burton Town.
The coaches were 71 seaters and the trip was completely free to any family
who had at least 1 child under 5yrs
There were lots of activities available at Sudbury Hall that were provided by
Family Action with free entry to the Museum and the main hall.
Winshill Neighbourhood Resource centre and Wishes 4 Winshill were asked if
we could provide the picnic for the families, we provided 200 picnic bags for
those on the 2 coaches and for those families who made their own way there.
It was a very successful trip which all the families thoroughly enjoyed.

26th July Teenage Funday 12‐4pm & BBQ
200‐250 attended
We thought our Teenagers would enjoy a day with activities aimed especially
for them, we had other organisations that came along too.
This event was funded by Winshill Parish Council

BBQ ‐ manned by Trent and Dove Volunteers
60 Burgers, 60 Hotdogs and pork cobs, vegetable skewers, cheese rolls, cakes
and fresh fruit.

Nerf Gun Arena‐ Abi’s Inflatables
Adult Bouncy Castle‐ Abi’s Inflatables
Close up Magic ‐ Magical Mayhem
Pamper session for the girls (nails and face packs) ‐Centre
Volunteers

Dance/Graffiti Artist/music – from the Brewhouse and Baby People
Beer goggles and lots of information – Teen Spirit
Fire and water Safety – Burton Fire Brigade
Glitter Tattoos/Face paints – Youth For Christ
We had a wide range of ages who attended this event as we were in the park,
but we did manage to engage with a lot of teenagers as they really enjoyed the
Nerf gun arena and the activities provided by the Brewhouse and Baby people.
Some of the younger teenagers thoroughly enjoyed learning how to do the
Graffiti.

6th August ‐Pet Parties 3‐5pm & Buffet
40 Children/31 Adults
Pet Parties is an event that both the children and Parents really enjoy, it gives
the children a chance to stroke and see animals that they wouldn’t normally
come across in everyday life. We have children who are frightened of animals
of any sort and it gives the parents chance to gently introduce them to spiders,
snakes and tortoises, that not a lot of children get to see anymore.
There is so many children who would like to come to this event, but the centre
is just no big enough to take more than 40 children and parents, so this is
something we will look at next year to see if we can have 2 sessions in the one
day.
We served a buffet lunch for everyone afterwards, consisting of sandwiches,
chicken nuggets, samosas, spring rolls, sausage rolls, cheese and onion rolls,
pickles, carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, cakes and fresh fruit

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13th August ‐Trip to Matlock
(In Partnership with Newstart Charity Shop & Wishes 4 Winshill)

51 children/38 Adults
We did a joint Trip to Matlock Bath, we subsidised the trip as much as we could
so the tickets were £4 for Adults and £2 for children.
This was probably the wettest day of the whole Holidays, but the parents and
children embraced the fact that they were not in Winshill, some families had
already booked tickets for Gulliver’s Kingdom and the heights of Abraham, so
were determined to have a good time despite the weather.

16th August ‐ Breakfast Club & Crafts
31 Adult/20 children
Breakfast club again was very popular.

August 20th‐Build A Bear 2‐5pm
(In Partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)

50 Children/ 25 adults
(100 more on the park)
We had been asked if we could do this activity, we looked at the cost of the
bears and felt that we could subsidise them if we did this as a joint event with
Wishes 4 Winshill, as we need to keep numbers at around 40 we did this as a
ticket only event at a cost of £3 per child and we would pay the remaining £7
per child, but we said there would be a BBQ/ picnic afterwards so everyone
would be able to access the food. This was extremely popular, and we took the
numbers up to 50 to try and accommodate all those who wanted to come. This
was a real family event with Mum’s, Dad’s, older brother’s and Sister’s all
getting involved.
Food: Burger’s Hot dogs, Pork Stuffing cobs, lots of fruit, crisps, cakes and
drinks. We had lots of other families on the Park to join in the activities and
enjoy the food.

August 23rd – Breakfast Club & Crafts 10‐12
26 Children/16 Adults
We decided to change it this week after everyone has so enjoyed the full
breakfast, we thought we would go for a continental breakfast, with lots of
Yoghurt and fruit, the families didn’t seem to keen when they first arrived, but
once they had tried some of the croissants, muesli and Yogurts it then went
down well.

27th August – Family Funday on the park
(In Partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)

1000 plus Children & Adults
We had a bouncy castle, slide, Soft play, Donkeys, candy floss, Ice cream, Slush
Puppies, BBQ with Burgers, hotdogs, cheese cobs, egg cobs, cakes, biscuits,
crisps and face painting.
Trent & Dove helped with some Gazebos and their Volunteers manned the
BBQ for us. This was a very hot day and the gazebos were great, as people
came and sat under them, we had lots of new faces to this event and it was so
busy all day long, we tried to keep a count, but the park was so full we lost
count in the end we served over 500 Burgers, hot dogs and filled rolls and all
the other food went too, we got through 12 bottles of squash and Kate who
was face painting didn’t stop for 4 and half hours.

August 30th ‐ Breakfast Club & Crafts
32 Children/20 Adults
We went back to a full breakfast at this our last breakfast club of the 6 weeks
holidays, we had a great respnse as today we served 47 full breakfasts and the
others had either cereal or something on Toast, it is good to see the families
sitting down and enjoying breakfast together and the children all enjoying the
crafts with each other and the parents getting involved.

October Half Term
(In partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)

October 29th – Pumpkin Carving
57 Children/19 Adults
We started off with 305 pumpkins, then soon realised this was not going to be
enough, so we went to get 30 more, which was a good job as we had 57
enthusiastic Pumpkin carvers. Children and parents were getting stuck in and
thoroughly enjoying carving their own designs on the pumkins.
We provided hot dogs and a small buffet and also some pulled pork cobs which
went down very well.

October 30th – Lunch Club

21 Adults/18 Children
We treated everyone to a pork Roast Dinner ( pork donated by Packington
farm) the Lunch club is run on a weekly basis and is open to all ages with a
regular average of 30 attendees, we always get a lot of children in the holidays
who love a roast dinner and thanks to Packington farm we are able to provide
them with this.

October 31st‐ Halloween Fancy Dress
                                   Disco 45 Children
                                   21 Adults
                                   We have entertainment with Carl Carvell,
                                   who is brilliant with the children and
                                   entertains them for the whole 2 hours, all
                                   the children dress up in their costumes and
                                   he does games for the adults as well as the
                                   children, so it becomes a lovely family
                                   afternoon out, with hotdogs, buffet food
                                   and lots of Halloween treats.

31ST October ‐Trick or Treat night

398 Trick or Treaters
We had lots of Trick or treaters who came through the doors of the centre, we
had lots of sweets and fresh fruit, our volunteers all dressed up and got into
the spirit of Halloween, it was great to see so many families getting involved
and having fun.

November 1st
Breakfast Club &
Crafts
(In Partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)

21 Adults

45 Children
We provided a full Breakfast and a continental option of Cereals, croissants
and lots of fruit, there is always a lovely atmosphere at the Breakfast club,
especially now we have had put the crafts on each table instead of a separate
table, so now it’s more of a family morning, where the parents and children do
the crafts together then eat together.

December 11th Lunch Club Christmas Dinner
(In Partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill)

40 Adults
We open our lunch club up to people of all ages, so we get babies, families
right through to the elderly with our oldest lunch clubber at over 90yrs old.
We had a full Christmas lunch with all the trimmings and also a visit from Santa
with a present for everyone.
Dinner consisted of Turkey, Pork, Parsnips, Stuffing, Mashed Potato, Roast
Potato, Broccoli, Carrots, Christmas Pudding, custard, Mince Pies and
Christmas Sweets.

December 7th & 14th Children’s Christmas
Parties
(In Partnership with Wishes 4 Winshill & Newstart Charity Shop)

84 Children
62 Adults
The Christmas Parties are always
very well attended, we have to try
to keep the numbers down as we
just haven’t got the space, we
have 2 parties. We provide a

buffet for everyone, with lots Christmas food and treats, the volunteers all
dress up and we had a visit from the Christmas Elf and of cause from Santa
with presents for everyone, we also had some amazing gifts donated from
Family Action.

December 14th Christmas Concert
70+ Children/Adults
Our Youth Club had been practicing ready to sing at our community Christmas
Concert, with the help of Rachel Ortis from POP UK , they performed
Christmas carols with a twist and danced and they also sang some of their
favourite songs from the charts, their parents came to watch them and we
provided warm mince pies, hot drinks and snacks for everyone.
The volunteers also did a surprise performance which they had been practicing
for 6weeks, they wanted to show that we should all try to love ourselves and
that we as a charity are there if anyone needs us, no one needs to feel alone.
The volunteers all dressed as Nuns to show that everyone is the same on the
inside no matter how we look or how confident we seem, we all hurt the same
and that no one is perfect, even our volunteers have problems and upsets,
they support each other and are here to support their community in which
ever way they can. They sang 2 songs from Sister act and the Greatest love of
all and the ‘this is me’ from the greatest showman and the young people
joined them and they sang the song together which was vey emotional, for our
volunteers and the parents.

18th February 2020 Half Term
(In partnership with W4W)

Phat Magic & Buffet
45 Children/29 Adults
Half term in Winshill can be very busy, so we were prepared with Phat Magic’s
Magic workshop and a buffet for all to enjoy. All the children were given the
chance to do some magic and all enjoyed making their own Balloon sword at
the end, then everyone sat down to enjoy a buffet tea.

19th February 2020‐ Lunch Club
Everyone welcome
28 Adults/10 Children
We have some more lovely joints of pork donated by Packington farm so we
are able to do a lovely Roast pork dinner for all the family with Raspberry
Eaton mess to follow, which was enjoyed by both parents and children.

Our Elderly residents absolutely love the Pork Crackling !!

20TH February 2020 ‐ Little bricks Lego fun
(Light Snack provided by Grub’s Up Voluntary group)

28 Children/23 Adults
The children thoroughly enjoyed this day, with tons of lego to build things and
play together, there was children of all ages and parents joining in too.
Grub’s Up provided a variety of Toasties for everyone to enjoy.

1st February 2020 ‐Breakfast Club
(In Partnership with W4W)

with Clay Modelling with Create 2Gether
41 Children/33 Adults
This was our busiest ever breakfast club with 74 breakfasts served, with a
variety of breakfast choices, we do full breakfast options or cereal and fruit.

We have a had a very busy year and these are just our ‘Snack Attack’ Activities
that we run during the school half terms and the 6 weeks school holidays to
help families during the times they don’t get free school meals or those
families who work and have that extra cost during the holidays, we are so
grateful for the funding and donations we receive as this allows us to provide
entertainment as well as food during some very difficult times for many of our
community.

We run many different projects and activities at the centre Our ‘Snack attack’
project is only a small part of what we do!
We have provided meals and entertainment for:

701 Children & 538 Adults (In the centre)
Total:1,239
Children/Adults 1,968 (Fundays/Days out)
Total: 3,207 children and adults
(during the school holidays)

from   April 2019 – March 2020
There are so many people we would like for their funding and donations and
with out each and everyone of them, we couldn’t do the things we do to help
the community of Winshill.
Thank you so much to:
Trent and Dove Federation                         Tesco Fare share
Winshill Residents Association                     Aldi
Winshill Parish Council                            One Stop
Packington Farm                                     SCVYS
Newstart Charity Shop
A Gift from You
Morrisons
Asda
Travis Perkins
Paul Fotheringham (in Memory Donation)
Family Action
WH Smith

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