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Time flies when you are having fun! This month at James’ Place Basingstoke we have been exploring the world around us and providing our members with new experience and opportunities. We believe in the importance of kindness and helping others, therefore our main goal...

At James’ Place Basingstoke we provide members with exciting new opportunities and experiences which can help develop their social and life skills, and overall build their self-confidence. With this in mind, as a team we have put together and created a fun-packed...

This months’ themes were Circuit of Independent Skills, members worked hard to increase their independence completing new and unfamiliar tasks.  Gardening/project Horse, working hard to get our garden summer ready and planting vegetables to enjoy later in the year....

Music, Motivation and free thinking is what we have been doing this past month. Singing and dancing is one of our greatest passions as we feel it’s one of the best ways to express ourselves in many different ways on a day-to-day basis. Singing along to our favourite...

This month we have been testing our memories. Wendy, our wonderful cook, has been baking a number of delightful things for us to eat, teaching us how to weigh out the ingredients and where the ingredients came from ie; Flour is made up of grain, which is a small hard...

Spring is in full swing at James’ Place Basingstoke   Flower Power We are officially in the season of spring and despite the endless rain we have received the last few weeks, we have been embracing the warmer weather here at James’ Place Basingstoke. The warm...

This month’s themes have been Family Week, St Patrick's Day, Spring and Easter. Alongside our themes, we have fitted in some outings such as: Juke box Jam which was amazing not only that we got to see some James’ Place Members from other days, and members got a chance...

Wow, we've had a great month.... Chinese New Year had been celebrated by one of our members, he used his imagination to make some amazing fortune cookies which include some superb words of wisdom. Some of our members have been going to the Arc in Winchester for 'Dance...

This month at James’ Place, we have been thinking about ‘What is teamwork?’ and “How to be a good team player?” Where does the time fly? Another month has gone! As a unit, we realised that great teamwork requires effective communication and active listening. It is...