A summaryAmazing Futures Holiday Scheme offers a range of exciting and enriching activities at Portslade Village Centre. There are 14 spaces available each day. Two spaces are for young people requiring 1:1 support and 12 spaces are for young people with 1:4 support.
For Summer 2025 we are offering the following dates, all 10 am - 4 pm, at Portslade Village Centre.
Tuesday 29th July
Wednesday 30th July
Thursday 31st July
Tuesday 5th August
Wednesday 6th August
Thursday 7th August
Please note: if places are all bookable places are filled, please join the waiting list. You will go into a pool, and have equal chance of getting a place with those who have booked tickets. No places are confirmed until 23rd May. Please only book two sessions.
The price for one 6-hour day is £30, which has been set by Brighton & Hove City Council. You can choose to pay by Direct Payment or self-fund.
We expect to be oversubscribed, especially for 1:1 places, but want to ensure that we can reach as many young people as possible. We have also set a booking limit of 2 sessions per individual out of 6 sessions on offer. If demand is high for all sessions, we may need to restrict this further and decline one of your selected dates.
The activities programme is designed by young people and the staff team to excite, inspire and gently challenge participants to have fun, enjoy new experiences, make friends and socialise.
Activities include sports and dance, arts and crafts and music, all supporting young people's health and wellbeing, and their personal and social development as they transition into adulthood. The provision builds young people's resilience and confidence, developing their life skills to learn, work, enjoy and achieve, and supporting young people to have their voices heard in, and influence decisions that affect them at Amaze and in the community.
Sessions will be delivered by the talented Amaze team and our activity partners. Young people can access indoor, outdoor, sensory and quiet spaces.
The rough structure of each holiday scheme session will be:
10-10.15am: Arrival
10.30-11am: Group check-in and group game
11-12.30 pm: Activity 1 (usually with an external provider like Parable Dance, Capoeira etc)
12.30 - 1.15 pm: Personal care and lunch. Snacks will be provided and young people will need to bring a packed lunch with them
1.15 - 2.15 pm : Activity 2 (usually arts and crafts/board games or similar)
2 .15 - 3.15 pm: Activity 3 (usually arts and crafts or similar)
3.15 - 3.45 pm: group game, check in and goodbye
4 pm: home time
Our team of youth workers on site will be trained to work with a variety of needs. We will be in contact with parent carers before the start of the scheme if needed, to ensure we fully understand a young person's needs and that staff are trained on any specific medication or support.
Further information
Amazing Futures Holiday Scheme is for young people with SEND aged 14-25 in Brighton and Hove, with 6-hour sessions of supported fun on 6 days of the Summer holidays. Tuesday 29th July to Thursday 31st July and Tuesday 5th August to 7th August. The scheme offers 14 places per session: 12 young people in groups of 1:4 staffing, and 2 young people with 1:1 support.
Places in the Amaze scheme will be allocated according to a range of factors, our aim being to achieve a balanced and workable group of young people in each daily session. To try to ensure fair access, each young person will be able to book two sessions. If we have more spaces available, we can offer you a third day.
How to make a booking
The bookings window will be open from 10am Friday 25th April until 10am Friday 2nd May. After that, we will review all bookings received and consider the allocation of places possible within the scheme's capacity. We confirm bookings by end of day Friday 23rd May. We will contact families directly to discuss a booking/gain further information on a young person’s needs if necessary.
Where all 1:1 places have all been filled, but where 1:1 level support is needed for a young person to be able to attend the scheme, we will welcome and support young people attending with a PA / carer if this is an option for them.
Ticket types:
1:1 self funded: for a young person who needs 1:1 support from Amaze staff, and you will pay the £30 fee.
1:1 Direct Payment: for a young person who needs 1:1 support from Amaze staff, and you will pay by Direct Payment
1:1 own PA self funded : for a young person who will need 1:1 support and come with their own PA . You will pay £30 fee and then pay your PA separately
1:1 own PA Direct Payment: for a young person who will need 1:1 support and come with their own PA. You will pay by Direct Payment, and a separate fee for your PA.
1:4 Direct Payment/self funded: for a young person who requires 1:4 support ratio, within a group.
There is a £30 contribution towards the costs of running the 6 hour session. This is payable online at the point in time at which a reservation is made, although payment won’t actually be taken until a place is confirmed. So you will only pay for bookings that become confirmed places. This price has been set by Brighton & Hove City Council.
If you wish to book a place and pay the £30 contribution by Direct Payments, please select the ticket option ‘Pay by Direct Payments’. We can then send an invoice as and when your booking is confirmed which can be settled by Direct Payments.
Where paying £30 is a barrier for a young person to attend the scheme, we also ask that you contact us directly to let us know and we will look into alternative options.
Once a session booking has been confirmed, you can cancel on eequ, or by phone or email by 9 am on the day, to get a refund.
If you do not get a place this time, we will add you to our waiting list in case of cancellations and contact you if a place becomes available.
To find out more about the Amazing Future Holiday Scheme, please visit Brighton & Hove SEND Short Breaks/Activities · Eequ or contact afholidayscheme@amazesussex.org.uk
