Freewheeling
Outreach
Play Activity Session
Tepee have been delivering a Freewheeling programme for a
number of years. Freewheeling sessions are play/activity sessions for children
aged between 4 and 14 years of age. They are usually 2 hours long and offer a
wide range of activity, puppet making, circus skills, toy making, music and
drama etc. Tepee uses professional workshop leaders, who are experts in their
field, and always provide playworkers, usually tepee staff to assist.
Tepee will be responsible for risk assessments, evaluations
and publicity and will provide refreshments, a mobile book library and
information about playwork, related training, funding, future events and an
opportunity to become a member of Tepee.
In the past Tepee has been able to offer a number of these
sessions to Tepee member groups free of charge, due to being able to access
funding. However due to changes in funding programmes this is not currently the
case.
Freewheeling sessions are now offered during school holidays
for a small fee to cover costs. Member groups can be given funding advice about
how to raise money to cover these costs.
As an example: Homestart applied to Teignbridge District
Council Play Initiative funding to provide 2 childrens workshops, and then
booked Tepee to run 2 Freewheeling sessions – felt making and storytelling.
Over the last year we have provided 21 Freewheeling sessions
for Westcountry Housing Association, Teignbridge Homestart, zero14plus,
Moretonhampstead Summer Play Scheme and Exminster Play Scheme.
This year
Freewheeling 2005
Freewheeling
2004
Freewheeling 2002
-2003
