Newsletters
Newsletter August 2023
Time certainly flies when you are having fun August already! Our group is constantly evolving and we are so fortunate to be able to continue to welcome new families. Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to Kate Bennett but she is willing to help when needed. We have...
Newsletter February 2023
We have had a great start to 2023 and are still in a position to welcome new families to our group and to see numbers to continue to grow. Our staff and volunteers work very hard each week to continue to provide fantastic craft and cooking opportunities. They also...
Newsletter October 2022
We continue to welcome new families to our group and numbers are growing. One of our biggest achievement this year was to celebrate 30 years of AIMS on 16th July 2022 and we invited lots of guests along to join in our celebrations. It was amazing to see so...
Newsletter May 2022
AIMS has been so busy since our last News-letter, it is hard to know where to begin. We are now busier then ever and are supporting more families than we ever have done before. Our staff and volunteers work so hard each week to accommodate more and more children. It...
Newsletter November 2021
AIMS seems to be going from strength to strength which is truly amazing considering the effect of the pandemic has taken on everybody. We continue to flourish and this is down to the hard work and commitment of our tremendous staff and volunteers. We have had to adapt...
Newsletter July 2021
AIMS continues to flourish, despite the pandemic, which is a credit to the hard work and commitment of our tremendous staff and volunteers. We have adapted the way we work but think that the one outstanding thing to come out of this difficult period is the...
Newsletter January 2021
Happy New Year. Despite 2020 being a horrendous year, it has gone pretty quickly and luckily AIMS has managed to survive thanks to the hard work of all of our staff and volunteers. We have adapted the way we work and have managed to support our families through...
Newsletter October 2020
Despite the current situation, time has really flown. Our children have gone back to school, some have started new schools and we have finally re-started our group sessions. We have all worked really hard to ensure that AIMS meet the Government requirements to stop...
Newsletter June 2020
Although we have not yet re-started our group sessions, we have all been keeping in touch and all of our families have been busy making some very special memories – all of which have been captured in our very own “Lockdown Photograph Album”. It has been really...
Newsletter April 2020
Welcome to our first Newsletter this year. Unfortunately, we have had to cancel our group sessions on a Saturday in view of the current situation. However, our Committee are in constant communication and we are doing everything we can to support our families during...
Newsletter December 2019
Well we are at the end of 2019 and what a busy year it has been. We have welcomed many new families. We have settled into a different part of the building and now have even more space than we did before. Thank you to all the volunteers and staff for helping us...
Newsletter April 2019
I hope you have all had a Happy Easter. We certainly did at AIMS. Once again, we were very fortunate this year to have had Easter Eggs donated once again by the Spiritualist Church in Dawlish. The children were over the moon with their chocolate treats and had...
Newsletter January 2019
We have had a busy time since our last Newsletter. The children had an amazing Christmas and were lucky enough to once again be visited by Santa who brought the children individual presents. A huge thank you to the Dawlish Spiritualist Church for organising this for...
Newsletter April 2018
I hope you have all had a Happy Easter. We certainly did at AIMS. We were very fortunate this year to have had Easter Eggs donated once again by the Spiritualist Church in Dawlish and also further eggs provided by J H Way, Dawlish. The children were over the moon...
Newsletter January 2018
Happy New Year everyone. It is amazing how quickly last year flew by. We were very busy. Sadly we had to say goodbye to Robin after 17 years. We are lucky to have Linda Hayes who has joined us as a volunteer and Hannah has also joined us and both are a real...
Newsletter August 2017
It is absolutely wonderful to see the group go from strength to strength and we continually welcome new families who seem to settle straight in.
Newsletter April 2017
We continue to welcome new families and they seem to have settled straight into the group which is great. During February we were lucky enough to be invited by Funky Aardvark to display our photos and leaflets in their upstairs gallery. We have had some outings which...
Newsletter January 2017
Happy New Year to all. Since our last Newsletter we have had many exciting activities take place. We organised a trip to the cinema during November which proved to be a big hit with the children. We were also lucky enough to be invited to the Santa Steam Train...
Newsletter September 2016
Newsletter September 2016 We have been fortunate enough to take the children on several outings since our last Newsletter. We had a wonderful day out at Dawlish Warren pond dipping and insect hunting followed by some time on the beach and a picnic lunch together. ...
Newsletter April 2016
Newsletter April 2016 Unfortunately we have had to say goodbye to Gill Ashcroft. We are extremely grateful for her help over the last year and hope that she will pop in and see us from time to time. On an even sadder note, Mandy has tendered her resignation and will...
Newsletter September 2015
Newsletter September 2015 The summer seems to have flown by! We have had another busy time at AIMS and continue to welcome new families. The summer garden party held at Whitstone Farm, Bovey Tracy on 28th June 2015 was a huge success. We were lucky that the weather...
Newsletter February 2015
The start of 2015 has proved to be another busy period at AIMS. I am thoroughly enjoying my role as Co-Ordinator and have to say it is made all the easier by the wonderful staff and volunteers who have helped me over the last year. I cannot believe I have now been...
Newsletter December 2014
Newsletter December 2014 I cannot believe we are at the end of 2014. The year has flown by. We have been lucky to have Ben Ashfield, who has completed his Duke of Edinburgh Award and hope will stay with us to help out. We are also lucky to have the support of Di...
Newsletter September 2014
Well we have had another busy period since the last Newsletter in June 2014. During July Gill Whitehead from Scott Richards Solicitors successfully completed a gruelling 110km cycle ride in quite hilly conditions. Gill managed to raise a whopping £850.00 for AIMS. A...
Newsletter June 2014
Newsletter June 2014 Well we have had another busy period since the last Newsletter in March 2014. During the beginning of April some of our children took part in the Dawlish Rotary Swimathon to raise money for AIMS. The children worked really hard and managed to...
Newsletter April 2014
Newsletter April 2014 We have had a brilliant year at Oaklands Park School. However, this was tinged with great sadness at the sudden loss of Sandra. Sandra was a huge part of AIMS and will be greatly missed by staff, volunteers, families and children. ...
Newsletter March 2014
We have had a brilliant year at Oaklands Park School. However, this was tinged with great sadness at the sudden loss of Sandra. Sandra was a huge part of AIMS and will be greatly missed by staff, volunteers, families and children. Sandra was a brilliant organiser...
Newsletter December 2012
We, at AIMS, have had a brilliant year in our new premises at Oaklands Park School. It was a year of celebration with the Jubilee, the Olympics and our 20th Birthday in September and we were delighted that so many of our supporters and past families came to share it...
Newsletter May 2011
We have had some amazing weather and so have been able to do a lot of outdoor activities so long may that last. We did get to the Leisure Centre where we had individual lessons on the trampoline placed by local indoor soft play design and install services, played...
Newsletter February 2011
We hope everone has recovered from the various bugs circulating over Christmas and you are all recovered and ready for 2011. We have managed to get funding from Devon County Council for some days out and we are going to Dawlish Leisure Centre on the 12th March to do a...
Newsletter December 2010
This newsletter is being posted in January but 2010 seems to have gone by so quickly! That is what happens when you are having fun and surrounded by such a great bunch of people such as those at AIMS. We had a great time on the Santa Train thanks to South Dartmoor...
Newsletter October 2010
That’s summer over now. Although the weather wasn’t too good in August we did manage all our outdoor activities apart from the carnival in Dawlish. We had to call that off as the weather was very wet but no matter we have our costumes and may be able to bring them out...
Newsletter July 2010
We have had a really busy time at AIMS. The weather has been brilliant and allowed a lot of outdoor play. Some of our families went on the DREAM-AWAY holidays in Exmouth and had a really good time and I gather there are still others who have joined the scheme. We have...
Newsletter May 2010
We have had a busy time at the Bungalow. Our Morris Team now have costumes and I would like to thank Janet, Maggi, Dianna and Denise for helping to make them. They will look very colourful when we (hopefully) dance at the Triangle in Teignmouth on the 19th June in the...
Newsletter April 2010
At last, we have some good weather, and the Saturday group has enjoyed being out with our scooters, bikes, etc. in the playground, which also supported by the sites like https://www.thermoplasticplaygroundmarkings.co.uk/games/hopscotch. We have two new families...