🌈🐝 Today, Co-Founders of BEE UNIQUE Nadia and Dave Parsons had the honour of meeting up with some of the Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) team members, Sellafield where they handed over a generous donation of £1000 to go towards the charity! 🌈🐝
💙 Sebastian said ” My team and I at Sellafield chose the BEE UNIQUE charity to be entered into a draw with a chance to win a charitable donation!
🧡 “Myself and others within the team recognise the great work you do for children that are ‘UNIQUE’. The challenges that arise from children with special needs is something that is close to home for some of us!
❤️ “So I am delighted to let you know that BEE UNIQUE has come out on top and has received a cheque for £1000!”
💕 BEE UNIQUE are deeply appreciative and we are so grateful for your support! Thank you! 💕
♥️ The joy on all the BEE UNIQUE SUPERSTARS faces when they realise their friend Priya won the trophy🏆 At Queen Of The Solway Dance Festival. ♥️
💛 BEE UNIQUE Dance Coach Katy Winter said:
“This made me extra proud! Celebrating everyones successes together ❤️ an inclusive section – Everyone’s a winner!! 💛 and to Miss Georgia Beresford-Smith, Thank you for all you’re input! the progress is remarkable. 💓It’s a blessing to do this together
“The kids have 100% loved it!” ❤️
“To Theresa Rodney my first ever dance teacher, a massive influence on me and many others not only in terms of dance but in kindness and promoting equality .. giving everyone a chance to sparkle”✨️
💛 Thank you so much to all for being part of the Superstars Journey. A heart warming moment for us all. 💛
🐝🌈 BEE UNIQUE SUPERSTARS were delighted to attend the Cockermouth Town Council Family Fun Day & Dog Show with the Superstars performing a dance routine in front of an audience! 🐝🌈
💃 A great day was had performing followed by enjoying the entertainment and activities. A massive well done to all to the Superstars who work incredibly hard to learn routines and are going from strength to strength! 💃
❤️ Thank you to Cockermouth Town Council for organising a fun day! ❤️
💕 BEE UNIQUE would like to extend our appreciation and say a massive THANK you to Dance Coaches Katy Winter & Georgia Beresford-Smith and Co-ordinator Pamela Dawn Morris for making a difference, dedicating and donating their time voluntarily. A lovely dance group full of support for one another. 💕
🫶 Twin Sisters & Co-Founders of BEE UNIQUE Nadia Shaw Parsons and Natalie McCarron each received a letter inviting them to attend a celebration dinner with being nominated as a FINALIST for Cumbria Women of the Year. 🫶
🏆 A ceremony organised for over 30 years! Celebrating outstanding women making a difference in Cumbria. 🏆
❤️ Nadia says “This was a massive surprise for us to receive an invite letter – Thank you so much to each and everyone of you for taking the time to nominate us! We are truly humbled and grateful for all the support.” ❤️
💚 “It was such an amazing afternoon where we were welcomed by everyone and was an honour to meet all the amazing ladies from all walks of life, giving back to the local community and making a difference.”
🐝🌈 Natalie says “BEE UNIQUE started in February 2021 with the journey of my twin sister Nadia and her partner Dave’s vision, to create an environment with no judgement and where individuals can simply enjoy every day activities, surrounded by families who understand and are in the same boat. WOW, what an incredible journey it has been so far! The charity has grown at a pace we never imagined and in such a short space of time! Thank you to our Volunteer Reps who help us immensely and fully support our mission.🌈🐝
❤️ “A lot of work goes into running a charity around our own professions and looking after our beautiful SEN children but with the 4 of us – Myself, Nadia, Dave and Martin. We fully support and help each other in every way we can. ❤️
💚 “We organise a high volume of activities, over 2k activities each year catering for over 25k individuals and we manually input all the activities and do this between us. Alongside all the activities organised, BEE UNIQUE support families with educational workshops, EHCPs, appeals, advice & guidance, DLA/PIP, support groups and inclusive family fun days. BEE UNIQUE is not a job to us, we run the charity from the goodness of our hearts, with zero expenses ever taken to support as many families as possible. It is because of Nadia and Daves beautiful boys; Dylan and Elliott – the Legacy to BEE UNIQUE, the charity was launched.” 💚
💓 Thank you to each and everyone of you for continuing to support BEE UNIQUE! 💓
💛 Be your own kind of beautiful! 💙 Be as unique as you are! 💚 Embrace differences!
🏆 BEE UNIQUE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2025 IN “RECOGNITION OF GREAT AND VALUABLE SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY” 🏆
🐝 🌈 BEE UNIQUE were delighted and honoured to attend the High Sheriff of Cumbria Awards 2025 in Kendal. 🌈🐝
❤️ BEE UNIQUE Founders said “It was such a lovely surprise to receive an email invite to attend a wonderful event surrounded by organisations who make such a difference to the local community ❤️
❤️ “It was such a wonderful afternoon! Thank you so much for making us all feel welcome and supporting our mission. It was a pleasure to meet you all. ❤️
🏆 “We were honoured and humbled to be awarded with a RECOGNITION AWARD, a PLAQUE and a KIND DONATION from Christopher Holmes – High Sheriff of Cumbria. 🏆
🏆 “This was an award for recognising BEE UNIQUEs contribution in enhancing the lives of the neurodiverse community! 🏆
💚 “This acknowledges the voluntary work BEE UNIQUE does, with well deserved recognition for each and every volunteer representative for BEE UNIQUE! “We are so grateful to have you all in our team.🏆
🫶 “THANK YOU so much for your continued support in delivering a valuable and much needed service to the community.” 🫶
🐝🌈 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 ⬇️
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. 💜
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