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Youth Council – 10.1.2023

The Youth Council provides an opportunity for young people to be involved in shaping SELFA, and to be active in making change happen in the local community on issues that matter to them. The group is user-led and champions youth... Read More...

Funding boost for children’s mental health support

A new research report has helped to secure an £85,000 funding boost for children’s mental health support in the Yorkshire Dales.  This comes at a time when social workers are seeing record numbers of children with mental health problems, an... Read More...

Week 4 of the holidays!

At SELFA this week, we have been spending most of week 4 with Nick and Joe from Project Wild! Nick (right) and Joe (left) We’ve spent time meeting some Animals and learning about them. We also learnt about sustainability and the... Read More...

Santa is coming to SELFA!

Santa is coming to SELFA on 16th December for our Christmas Party! Join us from 4:30pm until 6:30pm at Ings CP School and we hope to see you there! To RSVP, please email nicole.morgan@selfa.org.uk. We hope to see everyone there! Read More...

Summer Holidays have ended!

We’ve had a very busy summer holidays. Here’s just some of the things that we have done: We’ve been to Grassington Woods, Cleatop Woods, Austwick, Malaham Tarn and Janets Foss. We’ve been to Forest School in Skipton Woods, played football... Read More...

SELFA Fundraiser.

On the 26th of August there will be a fundraiser for SELFA outside of Rackham's on the High Street in Skipton.Please come along for your chance to win some fantastic prizes, and donate to SELFA! Read More...

October 11th-17th Highlights

As we go into our final week before the October half-term, we must first reflect on SELFA’s incredible week that has just passed. We begin with SELFA Starters who’s focus was all about science. The group is now working towards... Read More...

October 4th – 10th Highlights

We start todays blog off in Benthem, we have the wonderful Bentham Primary group who escaped to the outdoors as they enjoyed making room on the broom magic wands as a part of their CREST award. This is a new... Read More...

September 27th – October 3rd Highlights

Welcome back to our highlights of last week blog! Last week was filled with adventure, life skills and fun as each group worked hard to achieve their goals! Up first, we are heading over to the first of our Saturday sessions... Read More...

September 20th – 26th Highlights

What a week we have just had at SELFA! With each and every group making a return, our children’s charity welcomed back some old faces and a lot of new ones. From a record number of children in our SELFA... Read More...

September 13th – 19th Highlights

Our term time provisions are back! After a wonderful summer of fun, some of SELFA’s after school clubs restarted last week and they were all amazing. There were some new faces in our groups therefore a lot of the sessions... Read More...

August 30th – September 5th Highlights

That’s a wrap on summer as last week marked the end of the most amazing, incredible, magical and fun summer holidays. This summer has been everything that we could have wished for following the pandemic which put a stop to... Read More...

August 23rd – 29th Highlights

The penultimate week of the incredible SELFA summer holidays was one to remember for the children. With so many fun activities taking place, everyone was able to have the most amazing time and blow off some steam ready for their... Read More...

August 9th-15th Highlights

Science was the hot topic in a lot of our groups last week which made for a lot of fun for the children and young people at SELFA as you may have seen on our social media channels. It wasn't... Read More...

How to Fundraise Using Your Wedding Day

Your wedding day is a beautiful day of bringing people closer together. You and your partner are the main focus and people will respect your wishes on the day. Have you ever considered using this factor to fundraise for your... Read More...

Beat The Heat This Summer

The summer heat can be a very dangerous thing across the summer holidays. With so many outdoor activities planned for your children, knowing how to keep them cool is extremely important so that they can have a great, worry-free summer.... Read More...

August 2nd-8th Highlights

Welcome back to your favourite weekly blog! This time, we will be showing you all of the wonderful things that SELFA had to offer in the second week of the summer holidays. The weather was up and down all week... Read More...

How to Tell Your Fundraising Story

When you begin fundraising, you will need to set up an online fundraising account. This can be filled with any content that you would like to. This article will review all of the best things that you can do with... Read More...

A-Z Of Fun Summer Activities

As a children's charity, we have a pretty good idea on what fun activities are. Filling a summer holidays full of fun activities is not always an easy task and it is very easy for parents to forget about a... Read More...

July 26th-August 1st Highlights

It was the first week of the summer holidays last week at SELFA and we had an absolute blast! While the weather might not have been the best, we made the most of it and still got to do so... Read More...
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