2020 has been a unique year. With the impact of COVID-19, many members of the community have endured hardship financially and mentally.

Through the incredible work from our staff and volunteers, we have supported families in North Tyneside through these unprecedented times. We've provided meals to those who couldn't get out. Help and advice to those who didn't know where to turn, and offered opportunities to get people back on their feed.

As the pandemic lingers on, Christmas is uncertain. The Christmas season should be something to look forward to, especially for children. We'd like to make that a reality.

We want to give each child in North Tyneside a traditional Christmas stocking filled with Christmas love, seasonal fruit, small gifts and treats to bring the joy to households that have been devastated by the pandemic and watched the world change around them.

We need your help to make this happen.

Please consider donating to our cause at cedarwoodtrust.com/donate and help fund our 'Bringing Back the Stocking' campaign for Christmas.

We're running a kids' club at the centre during half-term next week. Sessions will be from 11:00am to 12:30pm and will be offering lunch too. There are 15 spaces available for children aged 4-8 years. Parents need to book a space for their children. Please call the centre on ​0191 259 0245 to secure a place.

Monday
Games & Crafts
Halloween hunt - clues left around the room/s
Create & eyeball slime - can take home in tubs/ziplock bags

Tuesday
Games & Crafts
Skeleton scavenger - Find all the bones in teams and assemble your skeleton
Create pipe cleaner spiders / draw and cut out spiders to pin on the web

Wednesday
Drama/Imagination Games
Name games
Splat & Wink murder - focus & problem solving
Wizards, gremlins, trolls - team game, active
Heads down, thumbs up (guess who picked you) - focus, concentration
4 corners - run to themed corners (one group is out each turn) - team game/active
4 corners - groups rotate and completing pictures in each corner - team game/creative

Thursday
Drama/Imagination Games
Shuffle monster - team game, communication, active
“What are you doing?” mime game - creative, focus, active
Racetrack - imagining obstacles, active
Build objects as a team using only their bodies - team game, active, creative
Evolution game (witch/skeleton/ghost) - problem-solving, active
Favourite activities from day before

Friday
Halloween Party/Disco
Musical monsters
Pass the hot pumpkin (hot potato)
4 corners - run to Halloween themed corners
Goo relay race (outdoor game with washing up liquid & water)
Mummy races (toilet roll round legs)
Monsters catwalk/competition