At Monday's #Halloween party we awarded prizes to our best dressed guest and Sense staff member, and here are our winners...

Emily, a student at Sense College in her spooky spider web dress and James, a support worker in his out-of-this-world Sam Ryder costume 🏆

Don't miss our professionals open day 📣

Pop along to learn more about the services on offer at Sense TouchBase Pears, and with Sense across the West Midlands, to support children and adults with complex disabilities.

Nov 9, 10am - 2pm.

Book your spot at: sense.org.uk/scheduled-acti…

A small thing that you can do to help communicate with people who have complex disabilities or are deafblind is learn one of the simple ways of communicating. ☝️ 👄 ⠪ Sense have great information on how you can do this and make a difference! ➡️ bit.ly/SenseWaysOfCom…

We had so much fun today at our super spooky sensory #Halloween party👻

We gathered our West Midlands services together for a very special afternoon of sensory Halloween fun. We've danced to spooky songs, ate tasty treats, enjoyed light shows and the vibrations of the music!

What a spooooky week we've had 👻

Thank you to everyone that's joined us for activities this week. We loved seeing you all in fancy dress, making spooky masks and sounds, pumpkin painting and enjoying messy play.

Keep checking our social media for next month's events!

The Arts and Wellbeing Team hosted a spooktacular half term session for children in the community! So many great Halloween masks were decorated and lots of lovely family memories were captured in our Halloween themed photo booth 🎃🦇👻📷 Sense TouchBase Pears Sense

Job Club is back!

Join us on 14th November when we'll have guest speakers from Sport 4 Life UK who support people with education, training and work opportunities.

You can join in person or via Teams, let us know what suits you!

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07557736294

Bring yourself to work!

Your quirky sense of humour, your interests, your experiences.

Share everything that makes you so unique in a job that makes such a difference in people’s lives.

Ready to bring it? Become a Sense support worker today.
jobs.sense.org.uk

'Transient Moments' is a series of landscapes by Midlands based artist Fae Kilburn.

The exhibition explores Fae's deteriorating vision and how this both inspires and challenges the way that she goes about creating art.

Read Fae's blog to find out more: bit.ly/3TXTadT

Thank you to everyone that came to join us today for some super spooky Halloween pumpkin decorating 🎃

There are a few spaces remaining tomorrow for our 'Halloween crafts and spooky sounds' session. Be quick if you want to snap them up: sense.org.uk/scheduled-acti…

Our friends Ampersand Projects are hosting sensory walks at Warley Woods this Friday for children and families with additional needs...

Our Halloween activities are now fully booked 🎃

All of our Halloween activities for this week are now fully booked. If you had spaces booked but now can't come along, please do let us know so that we can reallocate your tickets to someone else.

Thank you!

Professionals Open Day 📣

Come along and find out about the services we offer here at TouchBase Pears and at Sense across the West Midlands to support children and adults with complex disabilities.

We're here from 10am - 2pm.

Book your spaces at: bit.ly/3DUD2Fe

Happy Diwali 🪔

Today we've been celebrating #Diawli , the festival of lights celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil.

Basecamp have been making beautiful tealight holders, covered in sparkling gems and colourful shapes and we think they look brilliant!

Cultural Arts and Wellbeing session transformed the Performance Studio here today Sense TouchBase Pears as we created tealight holders to celebrate #Diwali2022 #FestivalOfLights Sheryl Hanna-Kumas Sense

BSL Café is back for October 👌

Join us on Thursday 27th October, 12pm - 1pm, in the Sense café. Whether you're starting from scratch with British Sign Language or want to practice the skills that you already have, come along and meet with others in a friendly, welcoming space.

We had the best time at our autumn messy play yesterday playing with pumpkins, leaves and sticks and playdough🍂

Don't worry if you missed out! Messy play will be back again next month. Keep checking our social media to book onto the next session as well as our other activities.

Our fab-boo-lous Halloween activity session is getting busy!

Decorate a Halloween mask and have your photo taken at our photo station then enjoy making spooky sounds in a mini music workshop.

- Thursday 27th October, 10.30am - 12.30pm.

book here: bit.ly/3D9Dfn7

This Friday the Red Dress project comes to Selly Oak💃

The project enables women from marginalised and impoverished groups around the world to tell their stories through embroidery.

Explore through words, sounds and touch with us.

Book your places: bit.ly/3S9xQ3N