🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE were delighted to attend the Carlisle Race Course Event 2024 and were all humbled to have been announced as the WINNER of ‘THE VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY GROUP AWARD’ – brought by OEE Container Technology 🌈🐝
🏆 Marketing Executive Laurie Eastburn said “It’s an honour to announce BEE UNIQUE as Winner of the Volunteer Community Group of the Year Award 2024. To do what they do for the local community around their own SEND children and professions, all voluntarily is truly remarkable! This award is a recognition for the outstanding contributions BEE UNIQUE have made to the Neuro Diverse Community. Keep up the good work BEE UNIQUE!”
🫶 BEE UNIQUE would like to extend our appreciation and say a massive well done to all the nominees and we thank all our supporters for nominating BEE UNIQUE. This was such a lovely surprise to end a fantastic day with some of our wonderful BEE UNIQUE volunteers who attended alongside us. 🫶
🌟 Thank you to all our Volunteer Reps for donating and dedicating their free time to support and assist with BEE UNIQUEs mission. 🌟
🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE are truly honoured to have WON the BBC RADIO CUMBRIA – SPORTS AWARD 2023 🐝🌈
🫶 BEE UNIQUE FC were nominated and shortlisted out of hundreds of nominations and were informed on the BBC Radio breakfast show that BEE UNIQUE FC had been awarded with WINNING the “Community Sports Group Category Award”. Such a lovely surprise! We are truly humbled. ❤️
👏 BEE UNIQUE would like to extend our appreciation and say Well Done to all the nominations and the amazing work they do for the local community. You are all incredible! 👏
⚽ BEE UNIQUE FC Coaches Martin, Dave & Simon would not have even reached a stage to win this award without the incredible support we have received from the amazing SEN families that attend our sessions on a weekly basis. Thank you to the Businesses & Sponsors who who have supported us in our journey, every step of the way! ⚽
❤️ Thank you to each and everyone of you for continuing to support BEE UNIQUE with our new venture of BEE UNIQUE FC football ⚽️
💚 Martin Co-founder and BEE UNIQUE FC Coach said “All at BEE UNIQUE would like to give a big shout out to all our volunteer coaches who are SEN Parents themselves. They dedicate and donate their free time alongside myself on a weekly basis to coach SEN Children in a comfortable environment. We immensely appreciate all that you do for the charity and the club! it’s because of you – BEE UNIQUE FC has become possible! ⚽️
❤️ It’s only been this year that BEE UNIQUE FC has officially become affiliated and it’s a real winner for us as coaches, giving this opportunity to children to take part in learning new skills, thus growth in confidence – You are winning everyday! just by being your beautiful unique awesome selves! We will continue to strive to raise much needed awareness and will always embrace differences! 💓
🫶 We have lots in store ahead for BEE UNIQUE FC with us organising exclusive stadium tours, the children being flag bearers and mascots on autism awareness days, meeting players and promoting pan disability football and taking part in tournaments in various areas. 🫶
🌟 To join BEE UNIQUE FC and train in an environment that’s fun, Interactive and tailored to all abilities. Please book your places via the link below ⬇️
🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE were delighted to support the Cockermouth Town Council Family Fun Day & Dog Show Event 🌈🐝
🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE brought along an activity play area which included an inflatable dome, bubble machine, ride on cars, trampolines, make your own squishy teddies, facepainting, glitter tattoos, tombola and raffle and we are delighted we raised an amazing £1,100! Every single penny raised going straight into the charity pot; which will help massively for us to subsidise the high volume of summer activities organised 🐝🌈
🎡 A fun family filled day was had for all the family with; 🎡
❤️ BEE UNIQUE Founders Nadia & Dave Parsons, Martin & Natalie McCarron would like to extend our appreciation and thank our Incredible Volunteers for helping us; Nancy Ashforth, Joseph Ashforth, Angela Fitzsimmons, Tina Pettitt-Gate, Elisa Trainor, Charlotte Jackson Wainwright, Cate Jackson, Catherine Gilley, Jennifer Grisedale & Gavin Redden for donating your free time – Alot of efforts go into the events setting up, running the day and packing everything away. Our volunteers work tirelessly to support us with our mission, thus raising much needed funds to make a difference to the SEN community. ❤️
♥️ BEE UNIQUE is a local charity run voluntarily around our own SEN children and professions with no expenses ever taken to give families the opportunity to enjoy every day activities (subsidised by BEE UNIQUE) in a non judgemental environment with also supporting families with providing coffee morning support groups, EHCPS, mediation and appeals advice, DLA & PIP Forms guidance & educational workshops. ❤️
⬇️ To view and book activities, please select the link below ⬇️
🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE were delighted to once again support Keswick Town Council Family Fun Day Event 🎉 “PARTY IN THE PARK” 🎉 A family fun day filled with live entertainment, food vendors, children activities plus more!! All in the beautiful location at Keswick Fitz Park 🌈🐝
🏰 Despite the rainy weather conditions; it was a fabulous day! BEE UNIQUE were delighted to bring to Keswick Town Council Events a large inflatable & play area with sensory items, facepainting & glitter tattoos with a small fee charged for UNLIMITED USE to come and go for the day! 🏰
❤️ BEE UNIQUE were absolutely delighted to have raised £1,049 – directly to BEE UNIQUE charity pot to enable us to organise subsidised activities during the summer term – BEE UNIQUE, a heart-led charity is run completely voluntarily around our own professions and around our own beautiful SEN children, with no expenses ever taken to make a difference to the the SEND community! ❤️
❤️ The day consisted of incredible Live Performances by; 🎶
🌟 1pm – Pete Jarvis 🌟 2pm – St Herbert’s School 🌟 2.25pm – Keswick School String Band 🌟 3:05pm – Eve Nichol 🌟 3:55pm – Imogen 🌟 4:45pm – Graham Bell 🌟 5:50pm – Local Vocals 🌟 6:55pm – Voulez Vouz ABBA TRIBUTE 🌟 8:00pm – Mark Swider DJ
♥️ BEE UNIQUE Founders; Nadia & Dave Parsons, Natalie & Martin McCarron would like to extend our appreciation and THANK our incredible Volunteers who work tirelessly to help us set up, run the day and pack everything away – your efforts and support is immensely appreciated! We couldn’t do all of this without you. Thank you so much all for making a difference! ♥️
🌟 Nancy, Jonathan, Joseph & Amelia Ashforth 🌟 🌟 Angela & Bella Fitzsimons 🌟 Gavin Redden 🌟 Jennifer Grisedale 🌟 Charlotte Jackson Wainwright & Ashleigh McCoy 🌟 Catherine Gilley 🌟 Elisa Trainor
❤️ Thank you so much to Keswick Town Council for inviting BEE UNIQUE again and to all the families for coming along and supporting the day!❤️
🌟 BEE UNIQUE look forward to seeing you all the upcoming Keswick Games Event on 17th August 2025 – Details to be uploaded in due course 🌟
MAY HALF TERM FAMILY FUN – A FULLY BOOKED SESSION TODAY
BEE UNIQUE were delighted to return to the RITZ CINEMA in WORKINGTON for BEE UNIQUE families to attend a ‘PRIVATE HIRE CINEMA SCREENING SESSION’ to watch a family film ‘LILO & STITCH’
🎥 These cinema sessions are set in a comfortable, relaxing and non judgemental environment where children can move around freely. 🎥
“The movie was a live-action fun pick me up film reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.”
🧡 Thank you so much to the RITZ Cinema for continually to support BEE UNIQUE to book private cinema screenings and giving BEE UNIQUE families a relaxing experience. 🧡
❤️ Thank you to BEE UNIQUE REP Elisa for marking families in on arrival. The session was sold out within half an hour! ❤️
BEE UNIQUE SEND Parent Gemma Rooke said “This was our first time attending a BEE UNIQUE organised cinema session. These sessions fill up so quickly and we were delighted to book places. It was an amazing experience for us all, my children were in their element being able to move around freely. Everyone is in the same boat, there is no judgement whatsoever. Thank you so much to BEE UNIQUE for organising all these exclusive activities for us all to enjoy together as a family.”
BEE UNIQUE will be organising more exclusive cinema sessions, so please do keep an eye out.
Our incredible & hard working BEE UNIQUE Superstars performed at the QUEEN OF THE SOLWAY – STAGE DANCE FESTIVAL, in Maryport today in front of a full audience by taking part in THREE CATEGORIES – A Group, Solo and Duo Performance
WOW!! What amazing performances they gave the audience! Absolutely fantastic! Not only did they have the confidence to step on the stage to perform – BEE UNIQUE Superstars were awarded with a FIRST Place Solo Award and awarded FIRST & THIRD PLACE in both the Duo and Group category with winning a TROPHY and each participant receiving a medal and a certificate.
It is absolutely incredible to see how far the Superstars Journey has grown from strength to strength and in a such a short time! and that is thanks to two amazing understanding coaches who dedicate and donate their free time voluntarily on behalf of BEE UNIQUE to teach dance, music & drama in a non rigid fun environment catering for all ages and abilities. Thank you to all the parents / carers for bringing along the children week in and week out and practicing at home. A lovely community created!
BEE UNIQUE Dance Coach Katy Winter said “Miss Georgia Beresford-Smith and myself are super proud of each and every one of our BEE UNIQUE Super Stars. They all work so hard to overcome little/big obstacles to get to where we need to be for our performance day. What a show guys! Thank you Theresa Rodney and Queen Of The Solway Dance Festival for a special heartwarming afternoon. I know Flo, My Nana Marj and Mags and few others are shining down on us loving every moment of this wonderful diverse inclusive section! Well done to every Dancer who steps on the stage this week and enjoy the rest of the festival.”
Thank you so much to BEE UNIQUE Volunteer Rep Dance Co-ordinator Admin Pamela Dawn Morris for choosing costumes, assisting with hair and make up and supporting in any way you can on behalf of BEE UNIQUE. BEE UNIQUE really do appreciate all of you so much.
Pamela Dawn Morris said “Absolutely amazing performance by all the BEE UNIQUE Superstars! Cried all the way through! Well done everyone! WE ARE SUPERSTARS!!!”
Look out for the amazing BEE UNIQUE SUPERSTARS performing at ST BEES BASH on 31st May 2025.
If you would like to be part of the BEE UNIQUE SUPERSTARS, held every Wednesday in Workington – Select the tag link below for further details
🌈🐝 BEE UNIQUE have so far organised 54 ACTIVITIES during the MAY HALF TERM WEEK 🐝🌈
🙋♀️ You do not need an official diagnosis to attend and no registration required. Siblings and Family Members welcome to book on too. 🙋♀️
⬇️ To view and book activities, please visit the below link – sessions are uploaded regularly so please do keep checking as facebook posts can easily be missed. You can select various location tabs and calendar entry date for easy navigation. ⬇️
🌟 Tickets are subsidised by BEE UNIQUE and payment is via PayPal, if you struggle with this payment method, please email beeuniquecharity@gmail.com 📧
♥️ We don’t want your lovely family missing out on subsidised activities, you have the options to save the bookwhen link to your mobile homescreen by selecting the three dots located on top right hand of screen or alternatively select ‘Copy link’ and ‘add’ to webpage options for quick access.♥️
🌟 We run BEE UNIQUE Voluntarily all year round, around our own professions and our own SEN children with the amazing support of our incredible volunteer reps who also dedicate and donate their free time to help and assist in creating and growing the SEN/D community in their local areas.🌟
♥️ We could not run BEE UNIQUE without our volunteer Reps and appreciate each and everyone of you. ♥️
Support & Guidance
📧 If you require support & guidance pertaining to EHCPs, DLA / PIP Applications, Appeals and further advice, please email beeuniquecharity@gmail.com and we will respond with your query as soon as possible.
♥️ BEE UNIQUE have a private parents / carers / family support platform page managed by BEE UNIQUE REP Tina Pettitt-Gate where you have the option to post anonymously. If you have not yet joined this page, please do as we share the advertisements on this page aswell https://www.facebook.com/groups/709713286366858/?ref=share_group_link ♥️
🌟 Thank you so much to all the wonderful businesses for accommodating BEE UNIQUE to organise exclusive sessions and Thank you to all the families for booking on. We hope you enjoy the activities set in a non judgemental environment. If there are any other activities we have not yet thought of or businesses you know who are able to accommodate BEE UNIQUE, please do let us know as we are always open to new ideas.
🚫We do have a 48 hour timeframe cancellation policy and this is not automatically refunded. BEE UNIQUE have to do this manually, so please do email beeuniquecharity@gmail.com. This can take upto 10 days to process. Some ticketed events are non refundable due to invoices being paid in advance and a premium rate being charged, regardless of numbers of attendees.🚫
💖 BEE UNIQUE do heavily rely on kind donations and fundraisers to enable us to do what we do and keep the charity sustainable. We are a unique satellite charity as we run the charity voluntarily here there and everywhere from North West Cumbria to Lancaster areas. Since the launch of BEE UNIQUE in 2021, we have organised over 2,000 sessions a year catering for over 25k individuals.💖
💚 We as Founders made the decision to not have a BEE UNIQUE base as we didn’t want the funds to be taken away from what we do and to ensure every single penny raised with no expenses ever taken to go towards subsidising;
🔸️BEE UNIQUE Family / Adult Exclusive & Group Activities 🙋♀️ 🔹️Educational Workshops 📝 🔸️Monthly Support Group Coffee Mornings (First Beverage funded by BEE UNIQUE)☕️ 🔹️BEE UNIQUE FC Pan Football Disability Team⚽️ 🔸️BEE UNIQUE Superstars Dance Programme 💃 🔹️BEE UNIQUE Return Coach Trips 🚍 🔸️Maintenance of BEE UNIQUE equipment 🏰 🔹️BEE UNIQUE van to transport equipment 🚚 🔸️Purchasing of Great North Run Entries and other fundraising opportunities 🏃♀️
🌟We do alot of fundraising ourselves and are delighted to be supporting ‘St Bees Bash Family Fun Day – A free to enter family fun day with live music, food, stalls and entertainment ‘ on 31st May where we will be bringing along our Inflatable park plus more to raise funds for the charity. We do this by charging a minimal fee per participant with no charge for parents / carers to access the inflatable play area – This is for UNLIMITED use for the full duration so families can come and go as they please on the day. All details are uploaded on https://bookwhen.com/beeunique 🌟
💖If you are able to support BEE UNIQUE in anyway, whether its volunteering on the family fun days, wanting to become a BEE UNIQUE FC Coach, sharing and promoting BEE UNIQUE to families, businesses and schools, donating raffle prizes / tombola and/or would like to donate funds or fundraise on behalf of BEE UNIQUE, please do get in touch via BEE UNIQUE Messenger or email beeuniquecharity@gmail.com– We really do appreciate all your support immensly. 💖
♥️ Our rep Georgina Walsh manages the Bee Unique Dips page where we advertise small raffles for as little as 50p a ticket. Georgina will be putting up a new raffle after the half term. Half of the proceeds goes into purchasing business vouchers to support the local community with the remainder half to BEE UNIQUE. https://www.facebook.com/share/1AKhqWyNEf/ ♥️
💖Thank you so much to each and everyone of you for supporting BEE UNIQUE, we hope you all have a lovely enjoyable half term. 💖
💛 You are all incredible and keep being your AWESOME SELVES 💛
🌈🐝 BEE UNIQUE in colloboration with ULLSWATER OUTDOOR ADVENTURES were delighted to bring to you a PADDLEBOARDING Experience at DERWENTWATER 🌈🐝
❤️An hour and a half session, where participants were trained by Ullswater Outdoor Adventures to have a go at paddleboarding. No previous experience necessary.
💜This was an exclusive session for parents/ carers, adults with or without an official diagnosis. “Have some you time, connect with nature and learn a new skill whilst admiring the scenic views”
💙”Stand Up Paddleboarding (known as SUP) is a great way to explore Derwent Water and take in your spectacular surroundings. You will be in the hands of a super friendly, qualified instructor who will teach you all you need to know to get moving and stay safe. We can guarantee that you will have a good time and come away with a smile on your face, and it is highly likely that you will get wet at some point while you learn to stand up and maybe do a few tricks. The beauty of paddleboarding is that you can kneel, sit or stand and still enjoy this activity. You will be provided with a wetsuit and buoyancy aid and we have changing tents for you to use.”💙
👨⚖️The Town Mayor started the day by introducing the May Day, King and Queen before St Herbert’s Church of England Primary and Nursery School danced away to the fabulous Mazurka folk band. It was a fun filled day with children taking part in sport games, meeting and greeting ponies and having a bounce-tastic time on the inflatables and equipment. There was a mixture of lovely food vans & refreshments, suitable for everyone.💕
💙DATE: 19th May 2025 💙TIME: 11am – 12:30pm 💙LOCATION: National Trust Great Wood Car Park, 1.8 miles from Keswick. Map is located in event image.
💜Thank you so much to Ullswater Outdoor Adventures for running a wonderful session. We look forward to organising more sessions. 💜
🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE are delighted to be supporting PARTON FEST – a family fun day for all to enjoy! We are thrilled to be bringing along our Inflatable Area for Children to have a bounce-tastic time! 🐝🌈
💃 At 1.30pm, West Coast Dance will be on the field dancing – donations welcome to support their upcoming competitions 🙏
🎶Live music from 2pm 🎶
🎤 Aphid (!)
🎤 Aka Skafell
🎤 Lee M Gallagher
🍸 Bar ninety six will be keeping you hydrated along with delicious food served by R Street food 🥘
Children will be kept entertained with;
🏰Inflatable area provided by BEE UNIQUE🏰
🐍Pet Encounters🐍
🙋Festival Glitter Tattoos by Glitz n Glam Events
🌟PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS who are excited to meet you all – Stitch & Sonic 🦔
🍬 Sweet treats by Candy Cabs 🍬
📅 Saturday 14th June 2025 ⏰️ 1pm – 6pm 🎪Location; Parton Football Field, CA28 6RE
🌟 No booking required, just turn up and enjoy the day! 🌟
🙏🫶 Please spread the word to your family and friends 🫶🙏
🌈🐝BEE UNIQUE are delighted to be supporting once again the ST BEES BASH – A fantastic family fun day for ALL TO ENJOY🐝🌈
🎶With Live Music, Entertainment, Local Stalls, Inflatables, Fancy Dress Parade, Scout Camp, Pavillion Bar plus more!! there really is something for everyone!
👨👩👦Bring along your picnic chairs and blankets and be entertained with your family and friends👨👩👦
💃 BEE UNIQUE Superstars will be performing around 1pm. Come along and support the inclusive dance group 💃
📅31st May 2025 🕙12pm – 8pm 🏫Wood Lane Saint Bees CA27 0DS
🚗 Parking on Hockey Field (Cash Only) 🌟 Food and Drinks to be purchased on site 🐕No dogs allowed onto the site.
💕ALL WELCOME – No booking required, just turn up and enjoy the day!💕
🙏 Please share & spread the word to your family and friends.🙏
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