CHIPS

25/06/2026

⛱️ This week is your last chance to enter the £1,000 Last Minute Getaway Super Draw and raise funds to support CHIPS ⛱️

From cosy cabins in the Lake District and Cornish beach breaks to London theatre weekends and family staycations, this prize is packed with exciting prizes!

Simply sign up on the link below, choose CHIPS as your good cause and you'll be in with a chance of winning a last minute break or cash equivalent prize.

🌳 Or, if you prefer, winners can go green and plant 1,000 trees as their prize.

👉 ENTER HERE: https://broxbournelottery.co.uk/

Good luck and thank you for your support!

Broxbourne Lottery

24/06/2026

📣 STOP scrolling for a second please 📣

Do you have 60 seconds to do a good deed and nominate CHIPS for a £5,000 donation?

We'd be ENORMOUSLY grateful if you'd click the link below and nominate CHIPS as your chosen charity today.

Your nomination means we could receive a £5,000 donation towards our clubs, playschemes and days out for SEND children in our community. This means more toys, more crafting materials and more fun for the hundreds of children we help to support.

Please nominate us here:

👉 https://movementforgood.com/draws/special/community?cn=1069535&ct=community&i=1782199995-99189.jpg&utm_source=holiday+card&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=M4G2025card&utm_id=M4G2025card

Thank you!

💚 This donation is all thanks to Benefact Group Movement for Good. Thank you.

23/06/2026

🎱 Friday nights are 'kick back and ease into the weekend nights' for the teens visiting and enjoying our Hoddesdon Youth Club.

Every evening offers something slightly different but we always strive to offer relaxing activities like colouring and crafting alongside more active pursuits including pool, air hockey and train and track play.

The teens enjoy reading the Beano, playing UNO and completing jigsaw puzzles.

We also often have extra special visitors and entertainers and have some fun videos to share with you over the coming weeks.

Our Youth Club is designed for teenagers aged 12 to 18 with special educational needs and disabilities.

If you're interested in a space for your young person, please email:

📩 [email protected]

22/06/2026

🤩 Our Summer Raffle has everything you need for a brilliant, British summer. Apart from the sunshine!

Tickets cost just £2 each and prizes include:

☀️ Entry tickets to Westminster Abbey for four
☀️ 20 sit-on train rides at East Herts Railway based at Van Hages
☀️ Parasol
☀️ A bottle of Pimm's and lemonade
☀️ Picnic chairs
☀️ Festival trolley
☀️ A game of boules
☀️ Beach towels
☀️ Sun cream

👉 Please email [email protected] to buy your ticket (or tickets now).

The draw is made on July 3rd.

Good luck!

21/06/2026

💙 We would like to wish all the amazing dads and step dads out there caring for the SEND children CHIPS helps to support a very happy Father’s Day today.

We see you week in, week out loving and supporting your children and the close relationships you have with your young people.

We understand that parenting a SEND child isn’t always easy and it comes with its own complexities and challenges.

We hope you’re appreciated, loved and spoilt today and understand the incredible job you do.

Children at our Bishop’s Stortford playscheme wanted to show their appreciation for their dads yesterday and enjoyed making Father’s Day cards with tissue paper hearts.

The children enjoyed the noise the tissue paper made when scrunched up while others enjoyed the feeling of glue on their hands.

Some of the children were able to add their own special messages inside the cards too.

Happy Father’s Day!

20/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈Pop over to Hertford Castle for Hertford Pride Day today. Open now until 4pm. All the items on our CHIPS stall have been hand crafted by local people and will raise funds for our SEND clubs and days out. We’re looking forward to seeing you. Be kind. Be yourself. All welcome 🌻 🌈 Hertford Mayor

20/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 TODAY is Hertford Family Pride Day at Hertford Castle 🏳️‍🌈

Saturday 20th June - Hertford Castle - 12pm to 4pm.

As one of the Hertford Mayor's chosen charities, CHIPS has been kindly given a stall at the Family Pride Day.

Please do come and say hello, learn a little bit about the vital work we do for hundreds of local SEND children and take a look at our handmade sunflower themed goodies.

All monies raised go towards providing our play-based clubs and days out across East Herts and Broxbourne.

👉 https://chipsplay.org/

🏳️‍🌈 Be kind. Be yourself. All are welcome 🏳️‍🌈

18/06/2026

18/06/2026

🎨 What a pleasure it was to welcome mosaic artist and teacher Donna Reeves to our Youth Club and Hub sessions on Friday evening.

🇫🇷 🇩🇪 Donna is a talented, local artist who has been commissioned by Hertford Town Council o create a mosaic celebrating the friendship and town twinning of Hertford with Evron in France and Wildeshausen in Germany.

Donna has been keen to include the ideas of local children and encouraged our very own CHIPS children to contribute their designs and ideas on Friday.

Our young people loved working with Donna and expressing their ideas for what friendship 'looks like' to them.

CHIPS is a small and local charity providing clubs, playschemes and days out for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

🧡 Our clubs are all about creativity, play and friendship so Friday evening was a match made in heaven.

We'd like to thank Donna for joining us on Friday, inspiring our young people and we wish her luck with her final designs.

Donna's mosaic will be displayed in Evron Place, central Hertford near the Post Office later in the year. We can't wait to see it!

17/06/2026

We've gone animal crazy at our Bishop's Stortford playscheme for SEND children recently.

🐅 🐝. 🦋

Children have been celebrating Endangered Species Day, World Bee Day and Butterfly Awareness Day!

The children adored Endangered Species Day and enjoyed exploring all the different patterns found on tigers.

The children loved examining and recreating the patterns found on tigers by using coloured rice and their fine motor skills.

On World Bee Day, the children looked at how bees make honey with a multi-sensory tuff tray.

And for Butterfly Awareness Day, the children loved painting their own butterflies and playing with butterfly shaped pasta in the tuff trays.

All the children loved pouring, scooping and telling us everything they know about the different animals.

🍦 And to top it all off, everyone enjoyed a delicious ice lolly too.

These are just some of the fun activities children with special educational needs and disabilities enjoy at CHIPS playschemes.

We are a small charity dedicated to providing fun-packed clubs, playchemes and special days out for hundreds of local SEND children aged 3 to 19.

We welcome SEND children, their siblings and are proud of the fact we offer families respite while their children are having fun with us.

Read more about CHIPS on our website here:

👉 https://chipsplay.org/