Glasgow Children's Holiday Scheme

Brief description:

We provide breaks for children and families living within the Greater Glasgow area who are disabled, disadvantaged or socially excluded. As well as family holidays at pour caravans we enable youth organisations to access our caravans for activity based breaks or just time away for young people and their youth organisation. We also support and enable families to access a day out and young people to access activities.

Organisation name:

Glasgow Children's Holiday Scheme

Type of break:

Accessible Self Catering Accommodation, Dedicated Short Break/Respite Accommodation, Supported Leisure & Activity Holidays

Care needs catered for:

Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Drug or Alcohol Misuse, Hearing Impairment, Learning Disability, Medical Condition, Mental Health, Physical Disability

Ages catered for:

Young People, Adults, Older Adults

How do people access your service:

Referrals come from social work services, schools, health visitors and various local voluntary organisations and community groups. Please get in touch.

Type of accommodation:

We have 5 holiday caravans at Wemyss Bay Holiday Park on the Clyde Coast. One of the caravans is fully wheelchair adapted and has a wet room, hoist, shower chair, dropped level work surfaces and light switches and a disabled ramp/balcony. 2 other caravans have disabled ramp access. All our caravans are of a high standard , double glazed and centrally heated. Our holidays include entertainment passes for all family members.

Full service description:

The aim of the scheme is to provide a break for children and families living within the Greater Glasgow area who are disadvantaged or socially excluded.  This can be for various reasons.  In so doing, there can be the opportunity to help address the imbalance of support, motivating and equipping the child to break out of what might be a longstanding family cycle of poverty and just as importantly, experience fun and enjoyment in a safe and constructive way. In any given year, we enable over 200 families and over 500 children and young people to get a break; of those around 100 children have a disability and many are young carers. Around 300 adult family members and carers also benefit.

Price information:

The only charge we make is either £20, £30 or £40 depending on the length of break, ranging from a weekend break, weekday break and full week break. We will waive this fee if required.

What is included/not included in the price of the break:

Use of caravan for up to one full week with entertainment passes included for each person going on holiday. All caravan costs - cleaning, energy, etc - are met by the Holiday Scheme.

Any other information you think people might find helpful:

One of our caravans is fully adapted for accessibility.

Organisation providing this information:

Glasgow Children's Holiday Scheme

Quality Assurance Accreditation:

OSCR

Accessible bedrooms:

Twin

Bedroom accessibility:

Manual hoist, Bedrails, Level entry wet floor shower, Drop down shower chair, Grab rails in shower

General accessibility:

Level entry to premises or ramp available, Parking available by premises, Accessible bedroom(s) on the ground floor

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