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On Saturday July 20, exactly 15 years since it opened its first summer holiday club, Unique Kidz and Co, a charity providing childcare and support for disabled children and adults, are inviting the whole community down between 11am and 2pm to join them in celebrating their enormous achievement. The charity launched in 2009 by two mums, Jane Halpin and Denise Armer, who couldn’t find suitable childcare for their own disabled children. Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our daily newsletter Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Lancaster Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.

Unique Kidz began as a summer holiday club with 65 young people in attendance, and now the charity has grown to offer after school, holiday and weekend clubs for children, daytime, evening and weekend support and sessions for young adults, as well as stay and play and sibling groups, with 187 disabled young people on its system and an ever-growing waiting list. To enable the charity to take on more disabled young people and provide more accessible spaces, Unique Kidz has submitted planning for an incredible two-stage project that will transform its current outside space and building, for not only them, but so that other local groups can also benefit from it. The plans include the addition of two specialist lodges, accessible play area, cycle track, sensory gardens, and growing garden outside the centre, and an extension and reformation of the internal layou.



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