Our Services
Children's Hang Out
Most importantly children come first. So, evenings, weekends, and school holidays, we are a safe and fun environment where eight- to twelve-year-old children can hang out with friends, stretch their boundaries, and create lasting memories.
Designed specifically for this age group as they want and need more than soft play but are not 100% ready for the big wide world, just yet.
We are not a childcare facility so they need a responsible adult. Adults have a comfortable area with sofas, tables and chairs, access to the café and a book exchange.
Facilities include table tennis, table football, air-hockey, sofas for chatting, eclectic selection of activities, toys and board games, jigsaws, arts and crafts. chess table, book exchange and reading area.
Session times are:
Term time - 16:15 – 18:15 or 18:30 -20:30
Saturday, Sundays, and school holidays -
09:00 – 11:00, 11:15 - 13:15, 13:30 - 15:30, 15:45 - 17:45 or 18:00 - 20:00
Meeting Venue
When the children are at school, our venue is available for hire. It is a relaxed professional accessible venue, with capacity for fifty delegates.
Perfect for product launches, breakfast and networking meetings, corporate, board and business meetings, charity, school or community groups, events and training etc. Exclusive hire has use of all facilities.
The Hang Out venue provides a relaxed way to talk through business strategies and brainstorming key objectives.
At lunch and break times colleagues can sit on the sofas and lounge around or challenge a colleague to a game of some kind.
No additional charges for projectors, flip chart and jugs of water.
We can run the cafe if required, or provide optional catering.
Those booking exclusive hire have the option to bring their own food (eg, schools bring packed lunches or charities bring their own catering etc.
They must commit to ensuring no allergy ingredients.
Cafe & Tuck Shop
Our a cafe and tuck shop is open for those using the hang out. It is not open to the general public.
We sell a selection of cakes, snacks and sandwiches, We strive to provide tasty good quality food at reasonable prices.
When the children’s sessions are running, and to ensure safety of customers, especially those with food allergies, food and drinks to be premises bought only.
Several allergies, especially with children can be touch triggered. This is in-line with the association for indoor play.
We do not sell alcohol.
A bit of history
The concept was a light bulb moment on a family holiday in Lapland whilst using a similar kid’s venue.
It was so good we used it everyday of our four day holiday.
By the end of it my then eight-year-old son and I starting planning what our version would look like, and us both pinkie promising we would open something in Southend-on-Sea, where we live, work, go to school and hang out.
As parents to an only child, we always have other friends hanging out at our place. This venue is designed specifically for 8 - 12 years old children as they want and need more than soft play, but not 100% ready for the big wide world, just yet.
OUR IMPACT
OUR VISION
To run a successful and sustainable venue specifically designed for 8 – 12-year-olds, as they want and need more than soft play but are not 100% ready for the big wide world, just yet.
We are not a childcare facility so they will need a responsible adult. There will be an adult’s area where they can chill and pop their head in to see how the children are, and the children in turn can check in with their adult, if they want to.
When the children are at school, our venue will be available for private hire as a meeting space. It will be a relaxed professional fully accessible venue, with capacity for fifty delegates and breakout space.
OUR VALUES
We can’t be everything to everyone, but what we are will inspire, be sustainable, genuine, and successful.
We will work hard and make decisions in intentional ways, so our profit enables us to make a social difference and a good living for our family and employees.
Every person will feel welcome, supported, safe and included.
Whilst we are not a charity will be doing lots of work to support others and ensure our venue is truly accessible, inclusive, sustainable, and inspirational.
We truly aspire to being sustainable and have already started acquiring comfortable furniture and equipment from friends and sites such as freecycle for the hang out venue.
The children will use real plates, sit on sofas, and not have to worry about spilling their hot chocolate or food, but they will be encouraged to respect their space.
OUR MISSION
We are a social enterprise. Like any other business, we seek to make a profit, succeed commercially by trading in goods and services, but we reinvest or donate at least half of our profits. Like a not-for-profit we have a permanent, locked-in commitment to a social and environmental benefit and aspire to demonstrate a better way to do business.
Our commitment of how we operate, who we employ, how we use the majority of our profits to further our mission is also key;
By the end of year one, we aspire to buy a mini-bus for local adventures, conduct local history tours and outings.
By the end of year two, we want to buy a beach hut, so local families can use. We live in the driest sunniest part of the UK with hundreds of unused beach huts waiting to hear children's laughter.
By the end of year five we hope to launch The Pull Up. We will buy a large house and split into two flats. This will be compassionate, supportive accommodation for two families dealing who have fallen on challenging times. It will be available for two years. This will enable the whole family, adults included can take time to pull themselves up.
To be a social enterprise:
- we are primarily motivated, designed and driven by the depth of our desire to make a positive difference in the world, and must:
- have a clear social or environmental mission set out in our governing documents and be controlled in the interest of that mission.
- be independent of state or government control and earn more than half of its income through trading.
- re-invest or donate at least half of our profits or surpluses towards their mission.
- be transparent in the way we operate and the impact they have.
There are more than 131,000 social enterprises in the UK, contributing £60bn to the economy and employing around 2.3 million people. Many outperform other businesses when it comes to growth and service innovation, reducing inequalities, creating jobs, and building a more inclusive economy.
Research shows that social enterprises are more representative of wider society than other businesses with a greater number led by women and people from racialised communities. Social enterprises across the UK are empowering communities, paying more fairly and engaging staff and beneficiaries in decision -making.
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