Flaxman Avenue short breaks

During your stay at Flaxman Avenue you can enjoy your favourite activities or choose to try new ones.

We offer a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities at Flaxman Avenue, in the local community and in the city of York.

Indoor activities include:

• arts and crafts, board games and jigsaws
• baking and learning new cooking skills
• trying out technology, including tablets
• relaxing with soothing sensory equipment
• choosing from our selection of movies to watch on our large cinema screen TV
• watching TV in your bedroom
• chilling out with music, video games or DVDs
• disco night at Flaxman

Outdoor activities include:

• feeding the ducks in the park
• playing football or netball
• visiting the local shops

Outings in and around York include:

• trips to the local pub
• visits to the museums, cinemas, and cafés
• meals out in local restaurants

Your support team will include managers and support workers. They will help you while you stay with us, and help you achieve any goals in your support plan.

Your support workers and managers are trained to offer you the best support they can. You might have special support needs and the staff looking after you will have special training to be ready to meet those needs.

We want you to build a positive relationship with your support workers: to get to know you, your strengths and needs, so they can provide support when you need it.

While you stay with us, you'll always have familiar people to support you. Very occasionally, staff sickness or emergency absence means this can’t happen. If this occurs, we'll try to provide you with someone you know and we'll always talk to you about this as soon as possible.

Also see

• Get advice about caring
• Support in the workplace for carers
• Training and education for carers
• Support for young carers
• Carers emergency card