Lynette Hammond

June has been a busy month at Our Place Group. At the start of the month, we had the pleasure of celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Like many of you, we decided that afternoon tea would be the perfect way…

May the 4th inspired our weekly topic of May the force be with you. Our young people had a wonderful time exploring this topic, especially as it was the perfect excuse to head on over to the National Space Centre.…

What’s In Our New Sensory Room? We recently shared an update about the completion of our wonderful new sensory room. Today, we thought we would share some of the sensory equipment that our young people enjoy using in this calm…

We are currently collecting items to help with the Ukraine Crisis. Our Young People have been busy making posters to encourage staff to donate. However, we’d like to go one step further and let our neighbours in the wider community…

The new sensory room at The Orchard contains a range of visual, auditory and tactile equipment that residents can access at any time to support them to regulate their bodies and emotions through multi-sensory input.”

It’s vital to make sure everyone is working towards high standards and in full compliance with the food hygiene law at all times. Last week we had a visit from the Food Safety Officer from the local authority. They came…

We are working closely with Early Help in Worcestershire. This is a service that provides help and support for children, young people, their families, and/or their carers. We want to share how you can access this help, which is available…

The build-up to Christmas is always packed full of festive activities. However, our children at the Our Place Group and The Orchard were delighted to have an extremely important visitor before breaking up for the holidays. Santa and his helpers…

We’ve been getting into the festive spirit here at Our Place Group. If you follow our social media, you’ll know we’ve recently had a few fun days with Dress Like an Elf Day and more recently, Christmas Jumper Day.  Christmas…

We were thrilled to have three wonderful young people join us for our first Holiday Club. The club took place over three delightful days over the Halloween Half Term and it was the first time we welcomed external visitors to…