Achieving Aspirations goes the extra mile, in supporting children and adults with learning disabilities, to live happy lives, close to their family, friends, and those important to them.
Seesaw is a provision of Achieving Aspirations CIC that provides a range of diverse and engaging short breaks suitable for children with additional needs. Achieving Aspirations goes the extra mile, in supporting children and adults with learning disabilities, to live happy lives, close to their family, friends, and those important to them.
How it Works
Each new member has their own unique needs, that’s why we work with families and new members on a case by case basis. We strive to find the perfect service and location for your loved ones.
Step 1
Contact Us
Our first step is always to talk to one of our specialists. We work with new members and families on a case by case basis.
Step 2
Getaway Breaks
The Getaway breaks are ‘taster’ breaks to help parents and young people who would like to attend our overnight breaks get to know us.
Step 3
Sign Up
After the getaway breaks assessment has been completed you are ready to sign up and use our services!
Step 4
Achieve Aspirations
We promote their progression, enable independence, and celebrate their successes in achieving the most modest to the greatest of aspirations.
Services We Offer You
At Seesaw, we have a vast amount of experience and expertise in providing activities and care for individuals with learning disabilities, particularly to those who have complex support needs and require a bespoke and specialist support. We host four different overnight breaks and two daytime breaks at Seesaw.
Overnight Break
Getaway Breaks
The Getaway breaks are ‘taster’ breaks to help parents and young people who would like to attend our overnight breaks get to know us. They also help us assess if our service can suit the young persons needs.
Overnight Break
Good Company Breaks
Good Company Breaks aim to create a familiar environment each time the young people stay with us. We achieve this by ensuring familiar faces, consistent care routines are followed, same bedroom allocation and decorating service users’ allocated bedroom with personal belongings is encouraged.
Overnight Break
Friends Together Breaks
Friends Together Breaks are an overnight short break provision of a one or two night duration with a theme to interest young people. They cater for up to twelve young people at any one time and give a real residential holiday experience.
Overnight Break
Sleepover Club
Our Sleepover Club allows the children to experience the fun of a sleepover with a group of friends in a safe, structured and inclusive manner. This gives the formative experience of a sleepover with friends to differently abled children who are often neglected of such experiences.
Daytime Break
Holiday Club
Our holiday clubs are structured to cater for young people with additional needs to enjoy a range of activities to keep them busy during the school holidays.
Daytime Break
Brickscape
Brickscape is the new short break located in Felixstowe, a
monthly Saturday club aimed at Lego enthusiasts looking to spend some time
doing what they love, with like minded people. The club offers the opportunity
to not only indulge in their passion for creativity, but to meet new people and
make friends in a fully supported environment.
Brickscape will run on the third Saturday of every month, places are available
through Activities Unlimited website, or through emailing us here: s.boulton@achievingaspirations.uk
Going The Extra Mile
Our Locations
We have four locations for our Seesaw members to join. Our clubs and locations are fully equipped to help guide our members towards achieving their goals and aspirations.
Felistowe Ferry Center
Felixstowe Ferry Residential Centre is a converted Victorian school building on the Suffolk Coast.
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Maryland
Maryland is a property in Bury St. Edmunds that hosts both daytime and overnight activities.
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Ambleside
Ambleside is a medium sized detached property which benefits for being set in a central location of the market town Stowemarket.
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Eastleigh
Eastleigh is a bungalow in quiet residential area of Clacton on Sea. There are good bus routes and safe walkways to local parks and facilities.
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In Your Words
Our team effort and morale has enabled us to help many families and individuals in the past. We are proud and love the work we do and your feedback motivates us to do even more!
"I want to pass on to your entire team how grateful I have been for your support over the past year. I know many of the families you support would have not made it through without you. Also thank you for the great communication and joint working you’ve helped me with personally too."
“Thank you all so much for taking such good care of our son, I know he loves coming to the Junction”
"Thank you so much to you and of all your team for all your hard work this year. You have all worked so hard without Ambleside families would not have coped."
"The phone calls each week meant a lot, made us feel we haven't been forgotten and someone is out there looking out. Many thanks all!"
"Staff are amazing. I never worry when sending my child to Ambleside, they really are an extension of our family."
" Theresa I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to you and all your staff for all the help and support you have given myself and my daughter, I don't know what I would have done without all of you, not enough words can express how much this service means to us all as a family, especially myself, Thank you again"
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