The Basingstoke Disability Forum (https://www.bddf.org.uk/) do some incredible work around Basingstoke and provde amazing resources for the community.

Today they hosted their annual Disability Awareness Day in the Malls where 26 service providers set up stalls and told local residents about what they do in the community, I had a great time going around and chatting to everybody and as always was amazed by the amount of great groups in the area.

As for what we did, I attended the setup and helped the providers get organised and set up while Tazmin, Charli & Pajinder joined myself to help pack up at the end of the day. Taking down a lot of signs and carrying plenty of tables to where a van was to pick them up.

The Basingstoke Disability Forum (https://www.bddf.org.uk/) do some incredible work around Basingstoke and provde amazing resources for the community.

Today they hosted their annual Disability Awareness Day in the Malls where 26 service providers set up stalls and told local residents about what they do in the community, I had a great time going around and chatting to everybody and as always was amazed by the amount of great groups in the area.

As for what we did, I attended the setup and helped the providers get organised and set up while Tazmin, Charli & Pajinder joined myself to help pack up at the end of the day. Taking down a lot of signs and carrying plenty of tables to where a van was to pick them up.

We had our third Walk Together session in conjunction with the Ramblers last night.

First, thank you to Tazmin for leading the session as I was struggling to move my neck and walk.

But it was great getting to the BSSC and chatting to Yazid who also got there early and then seeing Tazmin and Samantha and getting to catch up for a bit.

I'm jealous I missed the walk because it sounded great and the photos are beautiful! Also well led by Tazmin as you got a long way out through Crabtree

After a few months of hard work and great numbers we decided to do a social sessions this week!

As usual we met at the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club who have incredibly generously allowed us to use the their committee room for free all year. Then we went for a walk out and around the War Memorial Park before scurrying back once it started raining.

Once we were back at BSSC we went into the committee room and set up for our games night. Yeun & Tazmin both brought some board games to play and we decided to try some altered team games. We started with Articulate where to make it harder we combined it with charades, the highlight was definitely Yazid trying to make us guess "stream" which took at least 5 minutes.

We followed this with Scattergories where we decided to all work together to get the most possible words. I would like to formally admit that Charli was right and that a dormouse weighs significantly less than a pound.

Throughout all of this there were great conversations, snacks and a lot of laughs!

Thank you all for a great evening