Extraordinary Links

12/08/2026

🍂🦊 MEET BRAMBLE & DISCOVER OUR NEW AUTUMN EXPLORERS PROGRAMME!🦊🍂

We’re very excited to introduce our brand-new Bramble’s Autumn Explorers programme at Extraordinary Links! 💜

Every Wednesday, Bramble will have a new adventure waiting for us, with lots of opportunities to explore, create, discover and have fun together.

🌟 Make your own Explorer Plaque
🍂 Create autumn suncatchers
🏗️ Take on Bramble’s Building Challenge
🐦 Build bird feeders
🛁 Make surprise bath bombs
🚀 Launch rockets
🎃 Make Halloween slime
🎆 Create firework art
🦔 Make pinecone hedgehogs
🧪 Create lava lamps
❄️ Make snow globes
🏠 Build Bramble’s Gingerbread Village
🏮 Make Christmas lanterns
❄️ And finish the term with **Bramble’s Snow Day!**

And, of course, Minecraft will still be available every week for children who would rather build, play and socialise in the Minecraft world. ⛏️💚

Our sessions are designed so children can join in, in the way that works for them. There’s no pressure to complete an activity or make something in a particular way, come along, explore and have fun.

📅 Wednesdays during term time
⏰ 4.00–5.00pm
📍 Shirehampton Public Hall, Bristol BS11 9TU
🌈 For children with additional needs or disabilities and their siblings
👨‍👩‍👧 Parents/carers stay on site
💜 FREE to attend

Our first Autumn Explorers session is Wednesday 9 September, when we’ll be making our very own Explorer Plaques! 🌟

We can’t wait to see everyone, and Bramble is VERY excited to start exploring with you! 🦊🐾

Let’s explore together!

07/08/2026

🦊💜 Meet Bramble!

We have someone very special to introduce to you…

Everyone, meet Bramble! 👋

Bramble is our new Extraordinary Links Explorer and will be joining us for our Wednesday adventures from September.

Bramble is curious, creative, friendly and proudly neurodiverse. 🌈 He loves discovering new things, getting creative, exploring nature, sharing stories and, most importantly, making friends.

You'll spot Bramble wearing his purple Extraordinary Links hoodie and carrying his green explorer satchel. 🎒 You never quite know what he might have tucked inside ready for the week's adventure!

Bramble believes that everyone explores in their own way. There are no right or wrong ways to join in — whether you want to get stuck in, watch for a while, do things differently or simply enjoy being there, you're welcome.

From September, Bramble will be popping up at our Wednesday sessions, on our activities and online. We have a feeling you're going to be seeing quite a lot of this little fox! 🦊

And Bramble has one very important thing he'd like everyone to know:

💜 “The best adventures are the ones we share.”

Welcome to Extraordinary Links, Bramble. We think you're going to fit right in. 🥰

Extraordinary Links Explorers
🌈 Explore • Create • Discover • Grow

06/08/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us today for our Extraordinary Links trip to We The Curious! 🧪✨

We had a fantastic day exploring, learning, and spending time together. Thank you to everyone who came along and helped make it such an enjoyable visit.

We'll be taking a little break over the summer and will be back in September with more activities and opportunities to get together.

We've also got an exciting new rebrand for our activity group on the way... 👀 Stay tuned for more information coming soon—we can't wait to share it with you!

Have a wonderful summer, and we'll see you in September! 💙

18/03/2026

18/03/2026

Different isn’t less 💙

This Neurodiversity Week, we’re celebrating the strengths, perspectives, and potential of neurodivergent people.

At Extraordinary Links, we see every day what happens when people feel understood and supported.

Let’s move beyond awareness — and build real acceptance.

18/03/2026

Different isn’t less 💙

This Neurodiversity Week, we’re celebrating the strengths, perspectives, and potential of neurodivergent people.

At Extraordinary Links, we see every day what happens when people feel understood and supported.

Let’s move beyond awareness — and build real acceptance.

23/02/2026

SEND Reform 2026 promises earlier support, fewer EHCP battles and £4bn investment. However, without real school capacity, a specialist workforce plan and enforceable rights, reform risks becoming a reshuffle rather than a reset. Implementation will decide everything.
You can read more of our thoughts on the white paper here

Review of SEND white paper 2026

28/01/2026

🎉 Six years today! Extraordinary Links is officially 6. Huge thanks to every one of you for showing up, speaking up, and keeping this community strong. We couldn’t do this without you 💛

04/01/2026

💛 A huge thank you to our amazing supporters! 💛

Did you know you can raise money for Extraordinary Links without spending a penny extra? Yep—zero. Nada. Zilch.

If you shop online (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?), simply sign up to easyfundraising. Thousands of retailers will donate to us every time you shop—at no extra cost to you. It’s basically kindness on autopilot.

✨ Even better? Every penny raised goes straight back into supporting families through our groups and events. We have no wage costs at all—we’re 100% volunteer-led—so your support goes exactly where it’s needed most.

Shop as usual. Do good effortlessly. Feel quietly heroic. 💪💛

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/register-your-good-cause/?invite=y5sf5s&referral-campaign=c2c&utm_campaign=pmc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=causereferral-oct-fb1

Thank you for being part of our community.

12/12/2025

This prize draw is to support the work of Extraordinary Links, the charity for SEN and Disabled children and their families.