Local Offer Live – the big SEND activity event

Wednesday 17 June – 2-7pm – Mountbatten Centre

Alex Way, Hilsea, PO2 9QA

A free fun family event for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and / or Disabilities (SEND) in Portsmouth.

If your child/children are aged between 0 – 25,  have SEND and you live in Portsmouth (PO1 – PO6), come along to Local Offer Live – the big SEND activity event.

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What’s on offer:

• Have lots of fun and take part in FREE workshops including:
  • Multisports
  • Dance
  • Arts and Craft

• Watch a presentation from the Neurodiversity Team on coping with anxiety – practical tips to try at home
• Take part in a family workshop with KOOTH, (a free, safe and anonymous online mental health and wellbeing service) to help young people develop techniques to manage their mental health
• Meet over 30 services who can offer advice, support and signposting to families in Portsmouth who have children and young people with SEND

Timetable of events                                                

PPV Calm kits workshop  2.00pm-4.30pm & 6.30pm-7.00pm

Bailando with Sally 4.00pm-4.30pm & 6.00pm-6.30pm

Kooth family workshop 4.30pm-5.15pm

Berewood Panthers Football 4.30pm-5.00pm & 5.00pm-5.30pm

Neurodiversity talk 5.15pm-6.00pm

BH Live Multisports 5.30pm-7.00pm

Book your tickets today to confirm your place and be entered into a prize draw to win a family ticket to SEN MountAir or AquaDash at the Mountbatten Centre.

AquaDash! is an inflatable pool-based obstacle course.  Take on the hump, demolition ball, basher wall, mangle, skirt around the lighthouse crawl over the hedgehog, slip away, drop slide int0 the pool, or take on the 5ft challenge slide. 8+ year.

Get ready to bounce, slide, and climb your way through the ultimate inflatable adventure at MountAirX in Portsmouth. Perfect for energetic kids who love a challenge, laughter, and plenty of action.

Confirmed exhibitors:

• Neurodiversity Team
• Kooth
• The Mental Health Hub
• Portsmouth SENDIASS
• Portsmouth Carers Centre
• TEDS  (Targeted Specialist Early Development Support)
• Special Care Dental
• Portsmouth Parent Voice (PPV)
• Homestart Portsmouth
• Portsmouth Parent Board
• Make/Dynamite/Gig Buddies
• The Hive
• SEND Butterflies South Coast
• SEND Faces
• Moriah For You
• Kids
• The You Trust
• Household Support Fund
• Enable Abililty
• BH Live
• HAF
• Portsmouth Libraries
• Pitt Street Skating
• Seekers Creates and Travel Club
• MOTIV8
• Bailando with Sally (Dance )
• Berewood Football
• The Base at the Guildhall
• Plus Coaching

Getting there

Travelling by car & parking

The Mountbatten Centre is easy to reach by car and is located just off Northern Parade (A2030).

Use postcode: PO2 9QA

The centre has a free on‑site car park with 283 spaces
Parking includes:

15 accessible (Blue Badge) spaces
8 parent and child spaces

Travelling by bus

The Mountbatten Centre is well served by local bus routes.

First Bus – Route 8