Our families need us now more than ever

How we are supporting ELHAP families?

ELHAP's services re-opened in August 2020 after the first national lockdown. Our projects have been restricted in order to maintain the highest safety controls in order to stop infection transmissions at ELHAP. In addition to our main projects we are also delivering the ELHAP-Connects project:

What is the ELHAP-Connects project?

ELHAP started the ELHAP-Connects project as a response to the nationwide shutdown and then to the restricted reopening of local services.

This project is helping to reduce isolation and connect families but also offering all our disabled and vulnerable children and young people opportunities to play adventurously, to have fun and to be active.

The ELHAP-Connects project is delivering 5 key tasks to nearly 300 ELHAP families:

Online Workshops

We are running a wide range of exciting and online workshops each week, including Exploring ELHAP, Music Madness, Yoga, Mindfulness plus a weekly challenge. All our weekly online workshop schedules can be found at:

Online Workshop Schedules

Play boxes delivered to families

We delivered two sets of 300 play and activity boxes to all our children and young people in Summer 2020 and then an extra special Xmas Box in December 2020. We plan to continue to create and deliver these boxes until day-to-day life has gone back to normal. Each box contains a great range of toys, art and craft materials (we adjust the content for older young people).

Group chats with young people

We organise regular and one off group chats so we can facilitate young people meeting up with each remotely and for ELHAP-Connects staff to check in and see how the young people are doing. We focus on young people attending the Transition Studio, Pathway and Orchard Project.

Checking in with families

In the lockdown, we organises a telephone check between ELHAP-Connects staff and ELHAP families so we can find out how each family. It is especially important that we connect with our families and make sure that they don't feel alone or that no one cares.

Signposting families to extra help

We are helping families find the support that they need by signposting all the available services and organisations that are running in lockdown.

Support Us

Please support the ELHAP-Connects project. We urgently need donations and fundraising, so please check out our support page.

Further information

Please contact us if you have any questions or queries.

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ELHAP-Connects March 2021 Week 5

Week of 29th March 2021 schedule for ELHAP-Connects. A project to help reduce isolation and connect families but also to offer all our children and young people opportunities to play adventurously, to have fun and to be active...
ELHAP-Connects March 2021 Week 4

Week of 22nd March 2021 schedule for ELHAP-Connects. A project to help reduce isolation and connect families but also to offer all our children and young people opportunities to play adventurously, to have fun and to be active...
ELHAP-Connects March 2021 Week 3

Week of 15th March 2021 schedule for ELHAP-Connects. A project to help reduce isolation and connect families but also to offer all our children and young people opportunities to play adventurously, to have fun and to be active...

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We are on the search for passionate and enthusiastic playworkers to join the wonderful staff team at ELHAP! As a playworker, you can expect to play all day and ensure that our children and young with very diverse care and support needs have the best possible day!
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We have a fantastic and dedicated team of over 90 people employed in different jobs. ELHAP is a professional organisation that attracts people from different backgrounds but with a common passion and determination to help improve the quality of life for each and every person using ELHAP services.
The difference we make

ELHAP's services enable children and young people to experience the magic, freedom, creativity, fun and challenges of inclusive adventure play. These experiences impact on our service users in so many positive ways.
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We need your support now! It is only with the generosity of people like you that we are able to support over 800 children, young people and adults with disabilities and additional needs from across East London and Essex. Even before COVID19, ELHAP was facing an unprecedented challenge due to the closure of other local services. We now have more families than ever before in need of our support.
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