Yate children fundraising for vital cause this week

A group of children from Yate are set to take on a sponsored Painty Footprint Challenge as part of a fundraising campaign for Phase Five Pre-School.

The sponsored challenge organised by ARTventurers East & South Bristol and South Gloucestershire are taking place this week during their art and creative play classes for babies, toddlers and children run at Ridgewood Community Centre on Mondays.

The children will swap their usual weekly class for special fundraising classes as part of the national ARTventurers 2024 Charity Week.

In addition, children at Little Sparks playgroup at St Nix had the opportunity to join the challenge on Tuesday that week.

Friends and family of the children will be sponsoring them to see how many painty footprints they can do in one minute and help raise money for this great cause.

Phase Five Pre-School have offered affordable childcare to the Yate community for almost 50 years.

However, their Kelston Close site requires a lot of maintenance and will be unusable in the near future.

Unless sufficient funds can be raised for a new building, the pre-school will have to close.

ARTventurers East Bristol franchisee and business owner Lauren Womack said: “We’ve chosen to support Phase Five Pre-School as it’s a real asset to Yate and its closure would affect so many local families.

"As a business owner it’s lovely to be able to give something back to the local community.

"ARTventurers branches up and down the country have each selected their own local charity to support this year and we’ve set ourselves a national target of £10,000 which will help make a huge difference.”

ARTventurers run weekly art and creative play classes and parties for babies aged around three months upwards up to school age across the UK as well as holiday sessions and creative parties for older children too.

For more information about Phase Five and to donate visit tinyurl.com/2p93pd2z