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 [...]
Join us this Saturday 8th October from 11:30 am to 3pm at Markfield for this year’s Open Day and Annual General Meeting. Find out more about all the services Markfield offers disabled people, their family members, and the local community. Hear about our achievements over the past year and plans for the future at our [...]
Hot off the press! The Autumn edition of Markfield Welcome Pack is out! It aims to give you all the information you need to start using our services. We hope you will find the support you need, and that your children can enjoy fun activities. You can download a copy here. Don’t forget to share [...]
Our very popular Stepping Stones programme will be back in September 2022. Stepping Stones is a 10-week sensory play and language programme. It is tailored for families with children under the age of 5, with additional needs in communication, social skills and language. It is designed to equip parents and carers with the skills and [...]
