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Playgroup to mark its sparkling 25 years
preschool Sparklers Pre-School is celebrating a we’re really proud to have given so include games, a disco and refresh-

gymnastics quarter of a century and they’re in- many children a good starting point ments, call 01793 875777 or email:
info@sparklerspreschoolswindon.
viting past and present families and
in their education.”
staff to a party on Saturday 9 May. The group is open mornings and co.uk
The waiting list is full at present
The playgroup started in 1990 in
where an early a community hut adjacent to the afternoons with 18 children per ses- but for details keep in touch via
sion. In November Ofsted confirmed
start makes a world park in Sparcells before moving to a Sparklers’ good rating. www.sparklerspreschoolswindon.
of difference! room attached to Peatmoor Primary To register for the party which will co.uk
School when it opened in 2000.
Current group supervisor Lynn
McMahon is hoping that lots
of children who attended the
playgroup and their parents will join
the celebrations. “When you think
about it, 25 years is a long time and

daily classes for the under 5’s
Some of the Sparklers children with staff, from left, Lynn McMahon,
01793 822262 Tracey Jones, Laine Waite. Not pictured: Helen Young and Clare Stevens
www.esprit-gymnastics.co.uk
Help Hop Skip & Jump go further

HOP Skip & Jump,which provides
invaluable respite care for children
and young adults with special needs
and life limiting conditions is calling
on businesses and individuals in the
town to lend it more support.
The first event of 2015 took place
at The Sun Inn, Coate, at the end of
January when £400 was raised at a
Rock & Roll Bingo evening.
Hop Skip & Jump manager Sonia
Please call us at Osbourn said: “We would like to
Windmill Hill to thank Andy Moss and The Sun team
arrange a nursery for their generosity. It was a fab Sonia Osbourn and Andy Moss
tour just for evening and we were delighted with of The Sun at Coate
you and we will the funds raised.”
look forward to Hop Skip & Jump is based at Zurich. Many doctors’ surgeries,
welcoming you to Upper Shaw Farm in West Swindon colleges and community groups also
our Outstanding and in the Brunel shopping centre, boost funds through a whole range
Nursery and provides support to over 200 of activities.
families in the town. Up to 60 Sonia said: “We are appealing
families regularly use the facilities to businesses, organisations and
each month. individuals to make Hop, Skip &
Over £150,000 is needed each year Jump their charity of the year. There
to cover running costs and staffing are lots of ways the funds can help,
and the charity receives no direct from paying for specialist nursing
funding from Swindon Borough care so that parents desperate for
Council in order to survive. some me-time can get a break,
Some of the funds come from to helping pay for a special event
Aiming High tokens given to parents company to come into the centre to
with children and young people make play time special.”
with disabilities, but the majority of To find out more and to help,
the cash needed to deliver services contact: Sonia Osbourn on 01793
is received from the generosity of 977175 or email: supervisor.
businesses such as Nationwide and [email protected]
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