Markfield’s Gems club will be joining London Play to mark the first EVER International Day of Play! Join us on Tuesday 11 June 2024, from 4.30-7.00pm, at Parliament Square, London SW1. Parade for Play Join the call for London to become the most playful city in the world. Bring your banners, flags, costumes, drums, whistles [...]
Improve Haringey’s Local Offer website, plus free crafts for kids! Wednesday 29th May 2024, from 11am to 1pm at Chestnuts Community Centre, N15 5BN Every Local Authority must have a Local Offer where you can find out what SEND services/support are available locally. Haringey is redesigning its website and wants parents’ feedback to help design [...]
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are visiting Haringey this month as part of an inspection of the local systems to support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Ofsted wants to hear the views of Haringey parents/carers about the support that their children receive from schools, the local authority, [...]
We have launched a campaign to raise funds to help refurbish our soft play area. After so many years of use, it needs a great deal of updating and refurbishing. The soft play is an essential resource for children with additional needs and it must be well maintained to ensure that it can be used [...]
Markfield Open Access won the Weird & Wonderful award at the London Adventure Playground Awards last October. A group of children, regulars at our Saturday Open Access sessions, attended the awards ceremony accompanied by our Family Team manager, Ian Mccarthy and the Open Access lead, Dominique Wicks. After the award ceremony Dom Wicks said: "What [...]
On Wednesday the 19th May 2023 we played host to a team of 25 volunteers from Amazon who came to help us with maintenance and tidying up the adventure playground. They were a great bunch of people, very keen to work and they got so much done, but also enjoyed themselves. Luckily the weather was [...]
We are proud to announce that The Markfield Project was one of the winners of the 2023 Haringey Heroes Award, alongside 7 of our staff members: Lisa Martin, Silvia Hurtado, Sarah Miller, Riccarda Courtney, Rakhat Dzhumabekova, Katerina Allalou and Anna Frysztak. Our caring and hard working colleagues, who always work tirelessly to help others, deserve [...]
Markfield is introducing the Autism Support Project. We aim to support parents and carers of children and young people who are on the waiting list for an autism diagnosis or have been recently diagnosed. The project includes: a monthly Autism club for young people, a monthly online parents group, a monthly face to face parents [...]
Thank you to each and every one of you who attended our Halloween and Bonfire parties! You all helped to make them a great success raising £373.75 in vital funds for our playground builds. We hope to be able to build some new additions to the playground over the next year. Most importantly it was [...]
Your opinions are needed to help plan the next five years for Markfield! Markfield exists to support disabled people and their families to play, socialise and get information and support. To make sure we do this well, we have a Strategic Plan - which says what we will do to promote independence, rights, choice and [...]
