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The 12 months of VICTA – April

By |2022-12-20T12:50:49+00:00December 13th, 2022|Categories: Hide, Stories|

Family days & pre-teen adventurers Pre-teen Activity Centre Over the course of three action-packed days, VICTA visited Coldwell Activity Centre in Burnley Our group of six 10-13 year olds got involved in climbing, crate stacking and fire lighting. Not even the pouring rain could dampen our [...]

The 12 months of VICTA – March

By |2022-12-15T10:36:06+00:00December 13th, 2022|Categories: Hide, Stories|

Self advocates & code breakers Self-Advocacy Course with UCAN Productions Another first for VICTA. We worked with UCAN Productions who delivered an online Self-Advocacy Course. This was facilitated by Hannah and Jake from UCAN Productions, both with lived experience.  It was so well received; it is [...]

The 12 months of VICTA – February

By |2022-12-15T10:34:30+00:00December 13th, 2022|Categories: Hide, Stories|

Young designers & parent workshops Microsoft Citizen Design VICTA were invited to take part in a Citizen Design project with Microsoft. Participants took part in the testing and designing of an Object Recognizer Application which will eventually be available to the open market! View the full [...]

The 12 months of VICTA – January

By |2022-12-15T10:33:00+00:00December 9th, 2022|Categories: Hide, Stories|

Go dotty for our beautiful braille art VICTA Braille Art Competition To celebrate World Braille Day every year, VICTA runs a Braille Art competition. We had over 40 entries for this year's Braille Art Competition! We received some fantastic designs, which included Braille rainbows, hand painted [...]

Tree for Treats – Christmas decoration gallery 2022

By |2022-12-13T10:30:25+00:00December 6th, 2022|Categories: Stories|

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time to share the winners and entries from this year's Christmas decoration competition at VICTA. This year, our competition has been themed around 'The Snowman' to tie in with centre:mk's Christmas wonderland where our decorations are on display. If you would like to [...]

Success at VICTA’s first Summer Camp for 14 to 17s

By |2022-10-06T15:14:18+01:00October 6th, 2022|Categories: Activities, Be inspired, Stories|

VICTA’s inaugural Summer Camp 2022 at Kingswood Dearne Valley was a success. Not only did the participants gain independence, develop new skills and challenge themselves daily through site activities such as high-ropes and raft-building, they also gained two recognised National awards – the John Muir Award and the Arts Award. [...]

Fundraising in the workplace – how Highfield Group smash their fundraising goals

By |2023-10-12T09:43:25+01:00July 21st, 2022|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|

You may be wondering how to get your office or workplace involved in your fundraising for VICTA. Highfield Group in Doncaster are VICTA's corporate supporters and never fail to surprise us with the brilliant ideas they come up with to get their team involved and raising funds for VICTA. Ellie Cowin from the Highfield [...]

Hosting the perfect fundraising BBQ & more!

By |2022-07-21T12:32:15+01:00July 21st, 2022|Categories: Fundraising, Stories|

Dedicated #TeamVICTA fundraiser Andy Farrer is better known as the Portrush Iron Man, running marathons with a full sized ironing board under his arm! Every year Andy smashes his fundraising target for VICTA and is here to help anyone who isn't sure where to start.   One of Andy's favourite events to host is a [...]

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