Leisure & Activities
Local support groups for children, young people, parents and carers
Sports , Groups and Places to Go
Halton’s MAX Card Scheme
The Max Card is a discount card for families of disabled children that can be used at various leisure and holiday activities across Britain. The scheme is designed to help families save money on great days out at castles, zoos, bowling alleys and more.
Halton has registered with this national scheme in the hope that some activities may be more affordable for families.
Please see the website for further details My Max Card
September 2021 update
Unfortunately due to reasons beyond our control Halton Borough Council are unable to distribute MAX CARDS at this time. As soon as we receive an update from My Max Card and we are able to distribute the cards again we will update the Local Offer and send information out in the DCS Newsletter.
We apologise for the inconvenience. For more details, please see Halton’s Max Card Scheme flyer – updated September 2021
Sports
- Active Halton Directory for a list of all groups and clubs
- Active Halton – Frank Myler Pavillion
- Aviation Aerobility e-rotary club
- Bowling Greens – Local Parks
- Crown Green Bowls (local map search)
- Bowling (Tenpin Bowling) – Widnes Superbowl UK
- Cerebral Palsy United Football Club
- Charlottes Tandems loan FREE tandems and tag-alongs for people with disabilities or additional needs to enjoy cycling
- Cheshire Autism Practical Support (ChAPS) – activities and information flyers for Halton, Chester, Warrington, Northwich, Winsford and Ellesmere Port (Animal Therapy is available in Chester)
- Connect Redstars – young people/adults 18+ with a learning disability
- Couch to 5k
- Cricket All Stars – Widnes
- Cricket All Starts – Runcorn
- Cycle Training
- Diddikicks Widnes
- Diddikicks Runcorn
- Elite Physical Activity
- Halton Active’s Walking for Health
- Halton Community Snooker Academy
- Halton Spartans Youth Team
- Halton Table Tennis
- Inclusive Sports/Activities
- Ice Hockey 17-25 Years
- Ice Hockey 19-15 Years
- Learn to Skate 17-25 Years
- Mamafit
- Parkrun – Runcorn
- Parkrun – Widnes
- Runcorn Boxing
- Runcorn Taekwondo Classes
- Sports Clubs listed in Active Halton Directory
- Sports activities Ditton after school 28.6.2021 10 wks timetable
- Tae Kwon-Do Tigers
- Velocity – Widnes
- Victoria Park Tennis
Groups Activities
- Active Halton – lots of activities, sports and things to do
- Activity Groups FREE for children with disabilities aged 12–18 years
- Cheshire Autism Practical Support (ChAPS) – activities and information flyers for Halton, Chester, Warrington, Northwich, Winsford and Ellesmere Port (Animal Therapy is available in Chester)
- Children’s Centres provide a range of activities for children, young people and families – all have disabled access
- CARE LEAVERS Coffee Drop Leaflet
- Deafness Resource Centre timetable for what’s on
- Ella Together is an inclusive group for young people and adults with learning disabilities
- Four Estates Youth Activities age 10-13 yrs
- Four Estates Music Activities
- GLOW – Youth Group for LGBTQ aged 13-19 years
- Halton Youth Cabinet
- Halton Community Centres have lots of things that you might be interested in
- HBC Children & Young People Poster Board for local event/activity information
- HBC Halton Day Services provide activities and support for people aged 18 years old and over with learning disabilities and higher support needs
- Halton Play Council email – Tel: 01928 574087 playscheme, Saturday Pay Club and Short Breaks activities
- Independence Activity Groups FREE for children with disabilities aged 13–18 years – helping to promote independence
- Mako Create – Digital Arts and Creative Technologies activities
- Mini Science Lab after school and weekend clubs are perfect for 5–11 yr olds who want to investigate science in a super cool way – see flyer for details
- Studio Walks for 7-11 yr olds booking via eventbrite, parental consent form and flyer
- Wellbeing Enterprises Activity Programme
- Young People 2021 Zine flyer
Places to Go
Useful Resources
- Ikea Tolsby Feelings Adjectives Synonyms Prompt Frame
- I am an amazing person worksheet
- HappyConfident-Feelit-Lite
- Anime-Emotion-Coloring-Worksheets-Free-Download
- Anime-Emotion-Cards-Free-Download
- A4 Feelings thermometer
- What Am I Feeling colour in
- My positive affirmations workbook
- My main worries
- My Feelings Monster
Serial Culture Magazine produced by young people in Halton
Issue Two features…Small Business Focus, Meet Matt Plant, Living with Autism, LCR Flight One, Makefest, Nathaniel Hall and Green New Deal with cover art from Toni-Louise Carter
Issue Three features…Community Talks, Culture HQ/Draw on Halton, Wanderlust, Activ E&E Street Voice, The Great Get Together, Hygiene Poverty, LCR Spotlight with cover art from Hunter Tyghe
Cultivate Youth Forum
The youth forum will be a subgroup of Cultivate, The Halton Cultural Education Partnership. One of the key pieces of work is to support Halton Borough as it becomes the Liverpool City Region Borough Of Culture in 2021.
What is the Cultivate Youth Forum?
The youth forum will help to support the design and delivery of cultural activities in the Halton Borough; it is anticipated that this youth forum will help to develop and deliver a cultural summer programme in 2021 as part of the Borough of Culture programme.
Who can get involved?
We are looking to recruit 12 young people aged 10-15 to come together weekly throughout December & January. Recruitment will be until the end of November. We hope for this to be in person, but we have a digital back up plan. We have funding to reimburse some travel expenses.
What will participants of this project be involved in?
Those who wish to engage with the Cultivate Youth Forum will be involved in increasing engagement with cultural activities within Halton, and helping to develop projects that introduce art and culture to young people, such as a cultural summer programme. The youth forum will aim to provide the space to explore and open opportunities for young people to participate in and promote a multitude of cultural activities across Halton and in particular, to promote the positive personal benefits of participating in such activities, such as improved health and wellbeing and inspiring creativity to name a few.
Sessions will be youth-led, and will focus around exploring the idea of culture and how it is represented across Halton, as well as working to design and develop ways of engaging young people with culture in the borough.
How can a young person get involved in the Cultivate Youth Forum?
- More details in this briefing Cultivate Youth Forum Briefing for Organisations we can visit your children and young people to discuss this (either digitally or in person)
- If you need any further information then please contact Hannah (h.mcmullan@youthfocusnw.org.uk) or alternatively text 07395 793 108.
- To find out more about the Cultivate work, please click here and the project Instagram is @cultivatehalton
September 2021 update on Halton Borough Council’s Youth Service
- To support some of the more vulnerable young people, Halton Borough Council’s Early Help and Intervention team are providing a dedicated Youth Support and Treatment to young people in a holistic family way. For any young person needing 1-1 support for substance misuse any other risk taking behaviour please contact iCART: The team can be contacted during the hours of 9am to 5pm from Monday to Thursday and 9am to 4pm on Friday, call 0151 907 8305. If you have an urgent (safeguarding) concern outside these hours, please call the Emergency Duty Team (EDT) on 0345 0500148.
- The Council and Vibe continue support the Halton Youth Cabinet and the Youth Parliament by ensuring they can still continue to meet and represent their members and the young people of Halton.
- Support for other key groups that young people have advised the Council are important to them including LGBTQI is being provide by Loose at the Studio in Widnes.
- With support from the NW Region Duke of Edinburgh Awards team and through our registered local schools and settings this important programme continues to be available in Halton.
- Finally as we know that there is a huge amount of good innovative work with young people happening within our local communities, we have been offering the opportunity for local organisations to apply for a small grant between £5,000 and £10,000 over the last 12 months.
Disability Record Registration
Registering your child on the Halton Children’s Disability Record helps us identify and plan for the needs of children and young people with disabilities, their parents and carers. Registration is voluntary and is not linked to or a requirement of receiving social care services, which are assessed separately.
For more information please see the policy for details Record of Children with Disabilities Policy
How to register?
To register your child, please complete the Halton Children’s Disability Record – Registration Form
Please email your Registration Form to admin-organisation&provision@halton.gov.uk