Time to check out the summer fun brochure

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South Holland District Council has released its annual summer fun brochure.

The brochure is packed full of activities to keep children, young people and their families occupied during the school summer holidays.

It is distributed to every school child in the district through schools and copies can also be picked up at the council offices in Priory Road, the South Holland Centre, Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and libraries across the district.

Activities vary from week to week with some of them running throughout the whole of the summer break.

Starting this week and running on:

  • Sailing for people with disabilities, Rutland Sailability, Thursdays (10am-3pm) and Saturdays (10am-noon), Rutland Water, £5, seven to 17-year-olds, contact Ros on 07957 223039.
  • Spalding Kickers Taekwondo, Sundays (10.30am-noon) and Fridays (7.30pm-8.45pm), Castle Sports Complex, Spalding, £3.50, six years and up, contact Antony on 01775 760190.
  • Budokai Blackbelt Academy, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays (4.30pm-8pm) and Saturdays (10am-11am), Spalding Common, £3.50, four to six-year-olds, contact Eddie on 07950 833099.
  • Jon Cooper’s School of Taekwondo, Mondays (7pm-8pm) and Thursdays (6pm-7pm; 8pm-9pm), Castle Sports Complex, Spalding, £5, contact Jon on 07941 069510.
  • Spalding and District Table Tennis League, Wednesday (7.30pm-9pm), Castle Sports Complex, Spalding, £3, ten years and up, contact Nicola on 01775 760162.

This week’s activities:

  • Summer Reading Challenge – Launch Day, Spalding Library, Saturday, 9am-4pm, free, four to seven year-olds.
  • Summer Bake, Boston College, Red Lion Street, Spalding, Saturday, 10am-2pm, free, all ages.
  • Creative Consultation – Sketchcrawl, Gosberton, Saturday, 2pm-5pm, free, all ages, contact Kate on 07436 162004.
  • Open Book: Making A Flock of Words (creative workshop), Tuesday, 10am-12.30pm, Long Sutton Library, free, all ages, contact Rosie on 07747 271820.
  • Acoustic Cafe, South Holland Centre’s Youth Takeover, Tuesday, 6pm-7.30pm, free, 12 years and up, contact 01775 764777.
  • Music in the Gardens, Swineshead Silver Band, Ayscoughfee Gardens, 2pm-4pm, free, all ages, contact 01775 764555.

Visit www.sholland.gov.uk/leisure/whatson/summerfun2014.htm

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