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Harland Works are putting on a Christmas family funday this Sunday between 11am and 3pm which includes: Christmas singalong around the piano (pianists, singers and non singers welcome) Christmas storytelling Decorate your family reindeer to take home Festive card making with Annie Decoration making with Emma from Running with Scissors. Watch a gingerbread house demonstration in Harland Cafe Join us in creating our 12 Lego Days of (Sheffield) Christmas You can even tweet Santa while eating mince pies and drinking mulled wine from Harland Cafe (well the adults obviously). At 2.30pm we would love as many people as possible to enter our Christmas quiz in the cafe to raise funds for Roundabout a charity who work with homeless young people. Come and find out how much you really know about Christmas! After the event finishes at 3pm you are welcome to join us in watching a family Christmas film. Our event is free for adults and £3 per child (aged 4 and above), or £5 per family. Most activities are included in the price but some have a small additional cost. Our suggested donation to Roundabout for quiz entry is £2 per family or whatever you can spare. Come and get festive with us! Some of the activities are out doors so wrap up warm!

We can now announce all the finer details of our event this Sunday! Big Draw - Big Make The Big Draw is a month long set of events held up and down the country in association with The Campaign for Drawing, an independent charity which aims to raise the profile of drawing not just for creativity and thinking but as a way to bring people together. So bring them together we will on Sunday 14th October and we are now in a position to announce the details! Entrance is fee for adults and children cost £3 each (or a maximum of £5 per family). Most activities are free but some cost extra. Listen to a play expert and learn ways to keep your kids amused without spending any money Find out what Playpods are all about in the courtyard Try out free style embroidery with the lovely Emma from Running with Scissors Learn our recipe for bubbles Listen and get involved in Barefoot stories with Katie and perhaps buy a book to take home Get some tips on drawing dinosaurs and princesses or making a flip book animation Play with lego (we always have lego!) Collect and decorate your bag for the Creative Action Network bag competition and auction Enter our Big Draw competition in Harland cafe On top of all that you can sign up on the door for the following activity workshops: Make your own plasticine model to star in an animation on DVD to take home £3 per animation Work as a family with tutors from Kids Art Academy to create your own funny face family portrait £3.50 per family Artist Mary Chadwin will be leading a workshop where children and their grown ups can try their hand at printmaking techniques to produce brightly coloured pictures or patterns on fabric. Come along and experiment with rollers, sponges and everyday objects with the added element of surprise that printmaking offers! £3 per child/adult Always wanted to try knitting but not sure how? Join this workshops with Running with Scissors to help you get started! Limited places available at £35 each, suitable for adults and older children. Please book ahead on 07901 875599 or online at http://www.rwssheffield.co.uk And of course Harland cafe is open as usual to keep you fed and watered. Apparently the Campaign for Drawing's work will finish when the words "I can't draw" are dropped from our vocabulary. We are certainly up for giving drawing and everything else a try while having lots of fun in the process! We hope to see you there! ACCESS Please note some of our activities may involve stairs to get to them. Please let us know if this causes you a problem.

At our next family friendly event we are creating a huge piece of collaborative art based around everything 2012 has been so far. There will also be lots of extra activities and workshops for young and older children and their adults! Please visit our website http://www.harlandworks.co.uk to find out more including how to book onto specific workshops. The event is free for adults, and admission for children will be £3 each (or a maximum £5 for a family). Come and join us and get creative in many ways, and celebrate all things 2012. Now I wonder what that might include...

Preparations for our event this Sunday are nearly done! Come along with the family and help create Willy Wonka's factory, make a dream jar to take home and eat delicious food from the Harland Cafe Roald Dahl menu! By popular demand we have our lego lounge up and running, along with storytelling games and lots lots more. Rhyme and Reason are joining us too! Read all about it on our blog http://www.harlandworks.co.uk We'd love to see you there and feel free to dress up! My daughter will be the one dressed as a crocodile probably!

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We are extremely excited that our "Roald Dahl Day" will be taking place on Sunday 16th September at Harland Courtyard. Find us in the courtyard next to Harland Cafe, 72 John Street, S2 4QU - round the corner from Go Outdoors! Come and join us as we celebrate 30 years of the BFG and many other Roald Dahl classics. Rest assured there will be outdoor activities, crafts, writing and reading sessions, Lego (of course), gorgeous food (a children's Roald Dahl menu in the cafe) and lots more surprises. Could you be as clever and magical as Matilda, as gentle as the BFG or simply as imaginative as Roald Dahl himself? We are really excited about this one and what's more we will be raising money for the "Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity" along the way. We hope to see you there!

Thanks for the interest! This is my personal twitter feed where I tweet about events but you'll also get some life ramblings if you follow me https://twitter.com/#!/beanbananas Or you could follow Harland Works who are hosting it: https://twitter.com/#!/search/harlandworks The event has a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/421848437833455/ But there are lots more details and blog entries on http://www.harlandworks.co.uk. Hope to see you there!

Celebrate Father’s Day with a mini festival of family friendly activities designed with dads in mind. Entry to this event is FREE and does not require a ticket. For some activities you will need to buy a ticket in advance (see below). Ticketed Activities: Make an Animation (duration 1 hr) £10 per animation Sheffield’s own animation expert Mike Futcher will be hosting a drop-in animation workshop all day, showing you how to make your own animated masterpiece with scrap materials on hand – or bring along your favourite toy to star in your story! CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKET Record a Father’s Day Track G2 Studios £10 per person (1/2 hour or 1hr duration) Special Father’s Day offer: one off chance to use a professional recording studio.With help from top industry professionals, celebrate Father’s Day by creating your very own mastered mix to take home. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKET G2 Studio Tours FREE Want to see inside one of Sheffield’s top commercial recording studios? Join a FREE tour and check out the studio recently used by One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson. Sign up for a tour on the day. Free/Small Cost activities: Planet Pot special gifts to make. From £3 Need a last minute Father’s Day gift? We can help! Get creative with Planet Pot and paint some football shirt magnets, ace dinosaurs and key pots to dazzle dads and grandads alike. Lego Lounge FREE Chill out in our Lego Lounge, specially created for our Father’s Day celebration. Come and construct something amazing. The Creation Station special gifts to make. From £2 Make a home-made gift for your dad with Jenny from The Creation Station. From decorated photo frames to a Best Dad rosette - make him something he’ll treasure! Dad Friendly Story Telling FREE Barefoot Books will tantalise and amuse younger children with some dastardedly dad tales of derring do. Buy a book and take home a new favourite story. Dad’s & Babies Space FREE Drop into our dads and babies space for some baby friendly activities all day including Baby Sensory sessions and Pyjama Drama sessions suitable for 6mths-2 year olds! Facepainting from Butterscotch and Beesting Circus. From £2 Camilla from the amazing Butterscotch and Beesting circus (no ordinary circus!) will be with us, offering her quirky and artistic face painting talents. A chance to explore a world of wonderment and be transformed into a creature of your imagination. PLUS Harland cafe will have a special Father's Day menu and there will be some unusual stalls for Dads to peruse! Some of our activities may involve stairs. Please let us know if this would cause you a problem when booking. Visit http://www.harlandworks.co.uk to find out more and to book tickets for animation and recording sessions.

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On Sunday 17th June 2012 we will be hosting a Father's Day fair in the workspace and offices of Harland Courtyard, 72 John Street in Sheffield. The event will run between 11am-3pm and will be an opportunity for families to have fun with Dad! Activities for Dads and their families will incude: Dream shed building in our Lego lounge Recording sessions and tours of G2 Studios Make a gift for Dad with Planet Pot Crafts for Dad with Creation Station Themed storytelling from Barefoot Books Retro board games and toys Junk Modelling Photography competition Dad and Baby activity sessions And for the grown ups there might be a little beer tasting involved too! Plus Harland Cafe will have a special Father's Day menu. We are looking for stalls to complement our event, ideally selling items Dad's might be interested in. Ideally we are interested in T-Shirts, prints, comics, CDs, books but anything will be considered. Stalls are £15 and your details will be included on our blog. Stalls will be outside in the courtyard. If you are interested please PM me. Many thanks.

We think that traditionally the term "playgroup" applied to childcare sessions where you could leave your preschool children for a couple of hours, as we (Endcliffe Playgroup) still do today, but they are becoming increasingly rare. Apparently the setting up of playgroups was encouraged in the 70s and they were sometimes run from park pavilions and even from individual homes. We think now that our group was set up in the early 70s and was called "University Playgroup" so anyone with any memories of this group we'd love to hear from you. Thanks for your input.

We are doing some research into our playgroup and I wonder if anyone of the forum has any memories about our group or can help us piece together our story. From research so far we believe our group was set up in the 1970s, run from St Augustine's Church and was then moved in the 1990s to our current venue in Endcliffe Methodist Church. We must have helped a lot of families and children in these forty years! Did you go to the group in either venue, or send your children to the group? Do you have any memories of the ladies who have run it over the years, or what it was like? Maybe you know when and why it was set up? Any memories would be gratefully received as we try to work out if we are the oldest playgroup in Sheffield!

It's today! Please come along and find bargains and eat cake

It's today! Please come along and a) buy bargains for kids and b)eat cake

Just a reminder about our event on Saturday. All the tables are now filled with brilliant bargains!