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Welcome to Diddy Discoverers

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After a super busy week, we’re all set for our last playgroup of the week!

One of our favourite mornings of the week is Friday. Its almost the weekend and we’ve usually had a crazy fun week at PACS. From the moment we open our doors at 9.45am, we get to enjoy some very happy faces.

Dressing up, trains, babies, duplo, sliding, jumping and climbing are just a hand full of things on offer. Playgroups can provide children with some vital social skills and be a huge part of a child’s development.

Learning what’s nice and what isn’t (!!), seeing how others play and generally interacting with children of all different ages is invaluable. During this session we offer a less structured environment compared to our other groups.

Not only does this allow the children to explore the group in their own way by using their imagination and creativity, it also allows the parents / carers time to sit and relax after a busy week.

After all that play, the children love to listen to a story.

Then it’s time for songtime, sleeping bunnies is a firm favourite and we always finish off with a bit of Hokey Cokey!!! Dancing, laughing, singing ad jumping. It’s a lovely way to end a week at PACS!! Come along and see for yourself. We’d love to see you!!!    


What’s On @ PACS  

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 9.45am – 11.15am

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Play Sense – Tuesdays 9.45am – 11.15am

Play Sense from 9.45-11.15am at Mid Harbours Family Centre. A quieter play session for those children who may find
our other sessions overwhelming. To book, please email pacsgib@gmail.com 

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Methodist Church. Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting.  

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 12.30 – 2pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 – 11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page.

Welcome to Cooking Club

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Don’t forget to set your alarm for 6 pm! We’ve lost count of the amount of times we’ve heard that sentence at PACS.

Cooking Club takes place twice a week on a Wednesday and Friday from 12.30 – 2.15 pm and is aimed at children from age 2 1/2 to 5 years old. Unlike most of our groups, you need to book a space to ensure that we have enough ingredients! To make things fair, we allocate the spaces on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To book a space for our Wednesday session, you need to email at 6 pm on a Monday, and for our Friday session, you book at 6 pm on a Wednesday. Spaces are usually all gone by 6.03 pm! Needless to say, it’s a very popular group.

The session begins at 12.30 pm. To allow children to come from preschool, we have half an hour of free play. As it gets close to 1 pm, we start to gather the children to put on their aprons. The children are always excited when they see the aprons; most of them have a favorite!

Once they have washed their hands, we can begin to cook. At PACS, we pride ourselves on the fact that we offer the children the opportunity to cook lots of different dishes, which are mostly healthy, except for when we do chocolate week! Hot pots, lasagnas, fajitas, pies, and many, many more ensure the children learn about foods from different countries. Chopping, stirring, bashing, and slicing help to develop their fine motor skills. They also get to taste things too!

Once we’ve finished cooking, it’s time to play again while we clean up! Then we ask the children to help us pack away the toys so we can play some games. “What’s the time, Mr. Wolf,” “Simon Says,” and many other favorites cause great excitement… phew… after all that cooking and playing, the children are ready for home time! The children collect what they made… and there are happy faces all around!

Come along and see for yourself!


What’s on at PACS

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 9.45am – 11.15am

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Play Sense – Tuesdays 9.45am – 11.15am

Play Sense from 9.45-11.15am at Mid Harbours Family Centre. A quieter play session for those children who may find
our other sessions overwhelming. To book, please email pacsgib@gmail.com 

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Methodist Church. Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting.  

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 12.30 – 2pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 – 11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page.

Welcome to Sensory storytime

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Watching a child light up when they are engrossed in a story is the nicest thing of all…..

Here at PACS we love to read. Once of the nicest things during our sessions is to watch a child engage in a story. Sensory Stories offers the children the opportunity to immerse themselves into a book. Like Cooking Club, we open at 12.30pm to allow the children to have half an hour of free play.

Each week we have a different theme and a selection of books that are based on that theme. As we know,  children are not made for sitting still! Whilst our favourite story teller, Monica reads, the children are encouraged to interact with the story.

The tables are set with materials that match the theme. Some weeks we go on a bear hunt, whilst other weeks we enter the world of super heroes. Other days we just want chill on the mats with a blanket, happily listening to the story.

Our extensive dressing up rail is always raided. From princesses to chefs, to super heroes, we have lots of role play fun! Come along and join in with some Sensory Storytime fun!


Whats on @ PACS

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 9.45am – 11.15am

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Play Sense – Tuesdays 9.45am – 11.15am

Play Sense from 9.45-11.15am at Mid Harbours Family Centre. A quieter play session for those children who may find
our other sessions overwhelming. To book, please email pacsgib@gmail.com 

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Methodist Church. Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting.  

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 12.30 – 2pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 – 11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page.

Welcome to Bumps and Babies

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In our last article, we focused on our Tuesday group, Playsense. For this months article, we’re going to look at our Wednesday morning group.

This is where it all begins….one of the nicest things about volunteering for PACS is the fact that we become part of the children’s lives from when they born until they go to school full time..

Bumps & Babies provide parents / carers with a safe space to bring their babies from when they are first born… and sometimes when they yet to be born! New parents find the group invaluable as they can meet new friends, often lifelong friends, and any questions they might have will be answered.

Becoming a Mum is a joyous occasion but can also be overwhelming. During this session, we always focus not only on the baby but also the parent.

The session is a drop in, as we know how hard it can be to make a group on time with a baby. Our doors open at 9.30am and we are open until 12pm. Play mats, baby bouncers and plenty of baby toys are available.

There is a cafe adjacent so a hot coffee and lots of friendly faces are always the order of the day! Come along for yourselves to see what we’re about! 


Whats on at PACS

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 9.45am – 11.15am

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Play Sense – Tuesdays 9.45am – 11.15am

Play Sense from 9.45-11.15am at Mid Harbours Family Centre. A quieter play session for those children who may find
our other sessions overwhelming. To book, please email pacsgib@gmail.com 

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Methodist Church. Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting.  

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 12.30 – 2pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 – 11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page.

Welcome to Play Sense

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In our last article, we focused on our Monday group, Totally Toddlers. For this months article, we’re going to look at our Tuesday group.

Over the years it had come to our attention that many of our children find our traditional playgroups too loud and overwhelming. Last year we finally achieved our goal of a new sensory friendly playgroup.

To ensure that this group remains small we ask people to pre book a space. We only offer a maximum of ten spaces to ensure we provide a quieter environment. The session opens at 9.45 and finishes at 11.15am at The Family Centre in Mid Harbours.

This group is less structured and we only put a selection of toys out. Upon arrival the children have the freedom to chose what they would like to play with. There is a tent, a ball pit and penty of ride on’s. For many of the Mum’s this group provides a great space to chat about the highs and lows of parenting and to sit on the sofa’s whilst their child plays.

When we started back in September, we had children who were reluctant to come in the door without holding tighly to their Mum’s hand. Those children are now skipping happily into the hall ready and raring to go. Its such a valuable session for children and parents who enjoy a quieter space.

When the children leave we love to watch the smiles on their faces and can’t wait to do it all over again. Come along for yourselves to see what we’re about! 


WHAT’S ON

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 9.45am – 11.15am

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Play Sense – Tuesdays 9.45am – 11.15am

lay Sense from 9.45-11.15am at Mid Harbours Family Centre. A quieter play session for those children who may find
our other sessions overwhelming. To book, please email pacsgib@gmail.com 

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Methodist Church. Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting.  

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 12.30 – 2pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 – 11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page.

First up Totally Toddlers!

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Over the years we’ve gone from operating twice a week to now running a session, (sometimes two), five days a week. We pride ourselves on the fact that each of our sessions are different….here is a little introduction to our groups… 

Totally Toddlers runs on a Monday morning at The Family Centre in Mid Harbours from 9.45 – 11.15am. The Family Centre provides us with a great space that can cater for ages 0-5 in a safe environment.

Upon arrival, you will be met with a warm welcome. The children can explore the sensory tables which are created to enable the children to have the opportunity to feel, touch and explore. Each week, across the board, we have a different theme.

These include things such as Superhero week, Construction, Tea Parties and many, many more! Once the children are settled, we have story time. To see the children engage with our story is priceless. Next up its time to participate in a craft that is tailored to our theme. Not all of the children like to participate and that’s perfectly ok!

Free play is massively encouraged and gives the parent / carer a chance to have a well earned cup of tea! Before we know it, it’s tidy up time…then we offer all the children a healthy snack.

Before they leave… song time begins. Hokey Cokey is always a firm favourite! When the children leave we love to watch the smiles on their faces and can’t wait to do it all over again. Come along for yourselves to see what we’re about! 


WHATS ON @ PACS

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 10.00 – 12.00pm

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Living Room Café (Methodist Church). Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting. 

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday 12.30 – 2.15pm

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 1.00 – 2.00pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 -11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page. 

Parenting and Social Media – Good or Bad?

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Social Media is now a big part of our lives, whether we like it or not.

Nearly everyone is on one form or another. It is a great resource that has many benefits for when it comes to parenting. You can seek help and advice from parents all around the world, you can share the highs and the lows of parenting, and you can keep in touch with friends and family a long way away. However, have you ever stopped to consider the impact of sharing information about your children can have on their ‘digital footprint’ in the future and how they might feel about what has been shared about them without their consent. 

This is called Sharenting. Now until recently, I had never heard of this term before, but it was first coined by Steven Leckhart, a writer in the Wall Street Journal in 2012. It can be defined as; “the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc of one’s children.” Now, there are many benefits of social media for you as a parent but there can be some negative impact from this on your children.

Posts on social media sites can put children privacy and safety at risk. A supposed harmless picture of your child at their local dance club could give your child’s location away. What a parent think is cute now like a picture of your child on the potty, may be very distressing for your child as they grow.

As parents we post about our children from before they are even born. We create a digital dossier of their lives which will stay with them for ever and at no point do their consent to this, and this already created ‘life’ could very likely be affecting their ability to develop their own story and sense of self as their grow as teens and young adults. For example, a child could be bullied for a picture or video their parent has shared, that they think is funny but might be fuel for a bully.

As a parent of now teenagers, I have recently reflected on what impact my social media has on my children. I am always telling them that once something is on the internet it is always there, however, I have never thought about what impact my posts about them will have on them and their future. Although I can’t change the past, I will definitely be thinking more careful about what I post in the future.


What’s On @ PACS  

Totally Toddlers – MONDAYs 10.00 – 12.00pm

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for Storytime, craft and play.  

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12.00pm

 The Living Room Café (Methodist Church). Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting. 

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday 12.30 – 2.15pm

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 1.00 – 2.00pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 -11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page. 

It’s Christmas at PACS

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At PACS Christmas is our favourite time of year. Here are a few of our favourite Christmas reads, crafts and recipes to give you an idea
of what we will be doing this December!

This year we will be helping the children to write a letter to Santa! We will also read “Dear Santa” by Rod Campbell to our toddlers at story time. It’s the follow-up to the classic Dear Zoo. Our toddlers love to lift the flaps to unwrap each present, until Santa finds the perfect present. The repeating phrases are ideal for a pre-reader. Another favourite is “How the Grinch stole Christmas” by Dr Suess. Its rhymed verses and unique illustrations make it a fun for parents to read aloud to their children.

Remember paper doilies? They make the perfect stencil for snowflakes. For one of PACS Christmas crafts we simply secure the doily to a paper plate with paper clips. Toddlers apply paint usually dark blue using a sponge. Then they simply peel off the doily to reveal the snowflake pattern. A perfect short winter craft for toddlers. Another fun craft is painting pinecones to make mini-Christmas trees. Toddlers paint a pinecone using green paint and then add glitter and sequins to decorate. Its also great fun to find your own pinecone if you can make it to the woods for a winter walk with the family.

Sensory Storytime will have lots of glitter, sparkle, fairies, elves and snowman and at Cooking Club we will make Christmas cookie jars as gifts for the family. Whether they are store bought or homemade, toddlers love decorating Christmas cookies with icing and sprinkles. In fact, some of their creations have more sprinkles than biscuit. We’ll also be making Bread & Butter pudding. Always a firm favourite. 

We hope you can join us at our sessions this December to get into the Christmas spirit. Or try these stories, crafts and recipe ideas at home.

Whether you are celebrating your baby’s first Christmas or have excited toddlers and pre-schoolers who are beginning to understand the magic of Christmas, we wish you a wonderful Christmas.

In the eyes of children, we find the joy of Christmas; in their hearts we find the meaning.


Take a look below at our weekly schedule! 

Totally Toddlers – 10.00 – 12.00pm

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for
Storytime, craft and play.  

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12pm

The Living Room Café (Methodist Church). Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting. 

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday 12.30 – 2.15pm

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 1.00 – 2.00pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 -11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page. 

A group to suite every need!

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Over a number of years we’ve gone from one Play group and one Cooking Club per week, to two Playgroups a week, Bumps & Babies, a Sensory friendly group, Sensory Stories, two Cooking sessions a week and a monthly Craft Club!

We have always felt that we need to make sure we offer our groups to the whole community, ensuring that we tailor the groups to the needs of the children and the parents / carers who attend. Every child is different and before they head off to school it’s important that they gain vital skills to help them on their journey through school. Children learn through play and we at PACS are here to help them along the way. Each group offers something different to help develop new skills. 

On Monday’s the children can participate in a Craft which means lots of sticking, gluing and paint! We also provide a messy play table which enables the children can make lots of mess outside of the home! 

Our Tuesday group is completely different. Some children do not like the noise and excitement that our Monday and Friday groups bring. To ensure that the group is quieter we use a booking system to help us restrict numbers. This group is about letting the children play and learn at their own pace, developing social skills without the pressure of a structured environment. 

On Wednesday’s the group is different again. It became apparent that Gibraltar lacked somewhere for Mum’s to be to come and meet other Mum’s to be or new Mum’s in a calm environment. Bumps & Babies takes place in a café so that the adults are able to chat and actually have a much needed hot drink (!) whilst their baby happily plays. Just a short conversation about something that may have been worrying a new Mum, can change someone’s week and put any worries to rest.

On Thursday’s we have a totally different group too! Children love books…there is nothing better than being emersed in a story. Sensory Stories allows the children to become truly involved in a book as we offer role play and interaction. A firm favourite is the Bear Hunt…who doesn’t like that?

Friday’s group offers a relaxed end to the week. Free play, a story and songtime. A less structured group means the children can explore at their leisure. 

And of course last but by no means least…Cooking  Club. It does what it says on the tin!  The Children love to cook and the excitement during these sessions is very infectious.  

Cooking, Playing, Singing, Listening, Sticking, Gluing, Socialising and so much more! A group for everyone!


Take a look below at our weekly schedule! 

Totally Toddlers – Time TBC

Mid Harbours Family Centre. Come join us for
Storytime, craft and play.  

Bumps & Babies – Wednesdays 9.30am – 12pm

The Living Room Café (Methodist Church). Our regular social catch up for parents to be and babies in a home from home atmosphere. This is a relaxed session where parents can meet up with their young babies to enjoy a cup of tea, make friends and talk about the highs and lows of parenting. 

Cooking Club – Wednesday & Friday 12.30 – 2.15pm

The Methodist Church. A fun session aimed at toddlers aged from 2.5 upwards giving children the chance to make and try different foods. Booking required. 

Sensory Story Time – Thursdays 1.00 – 2.00pm

The Methodist Church. Come join us for some interactive Story Time Fun! Different themes every week! 

Diddy Discoverers – Fridays 9.45 -11.45am

The Methodist Church. Come join us for free play, story time and song time fun! 

Monthly Craft Clubs

Ages 2.5 upwards. Details will be announced on our
Facebook page. 

Meet our team – The PACS volunteers!

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Here at PACS we pride ourselves on the fact we have a very lovely team of voluteers to ensure each of our sessions run smoothly week in week out. We’d love you to meet them…

Name: Helen Mumford 

How long have you been volunteering for PACS? 8 and a half years

What you love about being a volunteer? 

The ability to give back to the community that I live in. When I moved to Gibraltar with young children PACS was a lifeline to me. It helped me and my family make friends and feel part of the community.  If giving a few hours a week means that someone else can feel that same way, thats great and it gives me a tremendous amount of pride.  Also, there are plenty of laughs along the way!

Name: Carrie Fox

How long have you been volunteering for PACS? 1 year

What you love about being a volunteer?

I love being a friendly face for parents/carers and children to get to know week after week.  Having familiar faces in a safe space to take a baby or young child is really important to me. It gives me satisfaction knowing that I can help provide this safe environment for families, while assuring them they are not alone with the struggles that come along with parenting. I also love seeing how the children blossom into beautiful individuals. 

Name: Anna Gabay 

How long have you been volunteering for PACS? Starting in September 

Why do you want to volunteer for PACS?

I have attended the variety of PACS sessions over the last 2 years with my youngest. These sessions have been invaluable in providing safe interactions with peers, especially as he has not attended nursery.

My son is very shy and relies on me in social situations. PACS has enabled us to enjoy the sessions together, and most importantly, allowed him to build trusting relationships with adults outside of the family. 

Now he is starting Preschool in September, I hope to become one of those friendly faces for children to eventually trust!

Name: Chloë Weir 

How long have you been volunteering for PACS? 6 years

What you love about being a volunteer?

In all honesty, it’s really hard to say what I love most. We are very privileged to be able to say that we get to watch many children grow and develop from new born babies to 5 year olds ready for school. To be able to be a part of their development is amazing. We really get to know them and become a part of their lives. Also watching friendships grow between the parents and carers is lovely. We pride ourselves on the fact we offer a happy and safe place to both the children and the adults. Watching a Mum walk in on her own for the first time and then leave having made what could potentially be life long friends is priceless. We are very proud of what we do.. oh and we have a great time doing it! 

Name: Monica Monton Chiappe 

How long have you been volunteering for PACS? 5 years 

What you love about being a volunteer? 

Firstly I wanted to give something back to such a wonderful community that has helped me with the upbringing of my 3 children. Since attending the sessions and becoming a volunteer it has made me a happier, healthier person and filled my days with joy. I would say it interrupts my daily tensions of work and home-life when focusing on others rather than myself. The benefits have worked both ways and I look forward to meeting new volunteers along the way.

Name: Nadine Delgado 

How long have you been a volunteer for? 3 years

What do you like about being a volunteer for PACS?

I used to go to PACS with my youngest and loved having a cup of tea and sharing stories of sleepless nights, pregnancy and labour with the other mums all whilst my then toddler played happily in a safe environment. As Tristan became more independent we both started helping out at the family centre putting away toys and helping tidy up. 

I feel it’s so important for parents of young children to have a safe space to come to and be able to talk to another adult, so once he started school I became an official volunteer. I enjoy seeing smiles on the parents faces as they walk through the door and have their first taste of caffeine of the day then they can finally relax even if it’s just for a bit. Lending a sympathetic ear, giving advice and cuddling new borns whilst the parent tends to the older child are all part of the job.

Name: Lenka Tryb

How long have you been a volunteer for? 4 months 

What do you like about being a volunteer for PACS? 

Being a mother of 3 gives me some idea of how demanding and busy a parent’s routine can be. For me, meeting new mums and dads who come through the door with their little ones is a great privilege. 

Volunteering for PACS, gives me a chance to be there for those who come and simply need a little rest from their particular parenting routines, whilst their little ones enjoy socialising and being busy with starting new friendships and with learning new activities.

I simply love to be a help in any possible way and to be able to assist their children in a variety of activities. I find helping them to learn new things and to witness their development extremely rewarding… and all this takes place in the very warm, supportive, safe and fun environment that Pacs sessions are!! 🙂

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us on pacsgib@gmail.com

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