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Hartley House, 35 High Street,...
We are Mark and Debbie, a husband-and-wife team who, jointly, have six wonderful children, four of whom have a learning disability, chromosome deletion, and/or autism. Over the years, we have experienced numerous difficulties in finding suitable care and provision for their individual needs. Over the past 20 years, as they moved from children’s services to adult services, this became even more challenging.
This is an ongoing issue for many parents and carers here in South Gloucestershire, Bristol, and the surrounding area. We believe that there is a real need for quality and appropriate provision of adult day care, which we and many other parents and carers agree, was not being addressed or widely enough delivered.
For this reason, we set up BUDDIES, an adult day service for people with conditions such as, but not limited to, a learning disability, chromosomal deletion syndromes, autism, mental health diagnosis, sensory impairment, acquired brain injury.
Most people who come to Buddies are between 18 and 65 but this is not a rigid framework, and we can include someone over 65 or transitioning from age 16.
We have 2 centres, located on Station Road in Yate and High Street in Chipping Sodbury.
We provide a fun and entertaining place to spend the day with friends, where everyone who attends can feel safe, supported, and enjoy activities, tailored to their own specific needs.
The activities include arts and crafts, bingo, puzzles, group games, board games, dance, karaoke, music, Makaton sing & sign, quizzes, cookery and baking, going out for walks within the local community, going out for coffee/tea/drinks, days out in the wider community.
We will also encourage our users to tell us what they want to do, if it is appropriate and within our ability to provide it, then we will do so. We have called the service Buddies with a strap line of...…. our place, our space. This is simply because we want our guys to feel just that, their place, and their space.
We are open Monday to Friday, from 9:00am to 4:00pm. We would be delighted to discuss your registration and talk you through the admissions process. Please fill and submit our online registration form if you wish to secure a registration of interest. If you are new here, you can create a free account and continue to submit the form. Existing service users / parents / support workers or services can log in and continue with prefilled details. Once your registration is submitted, you can log in to your free Cheqdin account to track status.
When submitting this form, you will be expected to provide details and any information marked as mandatory by an *. If you do not complete the required sections in full, it may delay your application.
If you have any questions or need assistance with registering your details and need & requirements, please contact us.
Mark: 07590 108063
Debbie: 07568 074349
Thank you for your interest.
