Friday 29th July ’22 from 1 – 3pm here at the Y
The Family Roadshow was a partnership initiative between Cupar YMCA-YWCA and Fife Council. This was the second event of summer ’22. The first roadshow on 8th July was a great start to the school holidays for families.
The Roadshow was all about encouraging families to play and learn together and to meet up for a chat and catch up! At times of financial challenges for families, this was a chance for adults and children to access free local activities.
Funding and Support
Funding for the roadshow came from Fife Council’s Local Planning Budget (Adult Learning). As previously mentioned, this was a free event for participants. We were grateful for support in the form of donations received once again from Morrisons of St Andrews and Tesco Cupar.
Our Venue
The event took place both indoors in our large hall and out in the play space at the rear of the YMCA-YWCA. The car park was coned off and used for the police van.
Staffing for the event was provided by the YMCA-YWCA staff team and volunteers and Fife Council part-time youth workers.
Workshops and Activities
There were lots on offer – visits from Tesco Community Champion, Elaine making smoothies, Community Police Team members, Duncan and Dawn, with their police van, dressing up clothes and the beer goggles. David, The Animal Man Mini Zoo, had an hour-long session with pet handling out in the play area. A series of activity tables with scratch art, cake decoration, badge-making, colouring and puzzles sheets, plus outdoor floor games and activities such as the train set, giant bricks, chalk drawing, skittles and hop scotch.
Goodie Bags
Families received a free goodie bag to take home which included snacks, colouring and activity sheets, and science activity booklet.
An amazing 71 adults and 117 children attended the event!
Here’s what Our Families Thought
At the end of the session, we asked for feedback and comments were written on feedback fishes! We had some great responses!
What did you like about our Roadshow today?
- The Police x 4
- Seeing the animals x 17
- Cake decorations x 5
- Colouring in
- Snake
- I enjoyed the painting – thank you, Theo
- I love the animals – thank you. Brody
- Smoothies x 9
- Painting x 3
- Animals were cute
- Lots of things for the kids to for free (smiley face)
- Scratch Art
- Making a mask
- I liked the snake on my neck and the police van
- Playing in the police van x 3
- There was lots to do and lots to see. Loved the mini zoo and mask making
- All of it. Kids had a blast! Thank you
- Chalking outside
- The animals were really fun and the smoothies
- The art
- Lots of arts and crafts for the children to do and the animal man was good
- The kids loved seeing and holding the animals, meeting school friends they had been missing, doing painting, drawing and making masks. Staff were great.
- The animals were very interesting and all of the activities
- We really liked all the crafts
- Drawing
Other Comments
- Utterly fabulous as always – well done Team Y
- There were a lot of children; I hope to come back again and see more animals
- Well informed info re. animals
- The animal man was a really good idea and very popular
- More of these events would be great
- Great variety of activities
- Do it again, it’s fun!
- Thank you!
- Totally awesome!
- Very well organised – good job
Moving Forward
Planning is now underway for the October holiday roadshow.
The theme of the roadshow will be ‘Autumn’.
More information to be shared shortly!
See you there.
