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The SEND Community Offer is part of the overall Short Breaks Offer and is available to all families of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) in Manchester.

The Community Offer is co-produced with families and includes a wide range of fun, accessible family activities. It runs across the year but mainly throughout the school holidays.

The SEND Community Offer enables families to meet other families and increase their support and networks. Often taking place in universal settings, it can be a way to increase families’ confidence in accessing these places beyond the SEND sessions available.

Please visit the SEND Local Offer website or subscribe to the Local Offer Newsletter to find out about the different activities available through the SEND Community Offer.

To learn more about Short Breaks, please visit the this info page or read the city council’s “Short Breaks Service Statement“.

Below are some articles and events that relate to Manchester’s SEND Community Offer:

SEND-Friendly Christmas Party

We invite Manchester's SEND families to join us for an inclusive, family-friendly festive celebration at Moss Side Millenium Powerhouse on Sunday, 10 December, 1:30 to 3:30pm. There will be loads of fun stuff for the kids, including: Arts and Crafts Colouring sheets Decoupage Paper

SEND Community Offer Relaxed Cinema Screening – “The Polar Express”

Bookings for the December cinema session will open at 6pm on Wednesday, 22 November. Please reserve your family's places through our Eventbrite page or scroll down this page for a direct link. Thank you for answering the poll for this month's screening. We will

By |2023-11-24T16:11:21+00:00December 2nd, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , , , , , |

SEND Community Offer Relaxed Cinema Screening – “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”

Bookings for the November cinema session will open at 6pm on Sunday, 29 October. Please reserve your family's places through our Eventbrite page or scroll down this page for a direct link. Much thanks to everyone that answered this month’s movie poll. We will

By |2023-10-29T17:58:37+00:00November 4th, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , , , , |

SEND Community Offer Relaxed Cinema Screening – “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”

Bookings for the October cinema session is now open. Please reserve your family's places through our Eventbrite page. The movie that we will show this month is "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" - Much thanks to all of you who answered the poll

By |2023-09-28T16:20:39+01:00October 7th, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , , , , |

SEND Community Offer Relaxed Cinema Screening – DC League of Super-Pets

Bookings for this cinema session is now open! Please book your family's places through our Eventbrite page. We will be showing "DC League of Super-Pets" on this day. Join us and other families of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities

By |2023-09-24T17:23:37+01:00September 10th, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , , , , |

SEND Community Offer – Monthly Relaxed Cinema Sessions

Bookings for the December cinema session will open at 6pm on Wednesday, 22 November. Please book your family's places through our Eventbrite page. In the meantime, you can vote for the movie that we will show by answering our SurveyMonkey poll. The survey will close

By |2023-11-20T17:06:26+00:00September 4th, 2023|Categories: Events, Projects|Tags: , , , , |

SEND Community Offer Relaxed Cinema Screening – The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Bookings for this cinema session will open at 6pm on Wednesday, 2 August 2023. Much thanks to everyone answered this month's movie poll. We will be showing "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" on the 26th of August. Join us and other families of

By |2023-08-26T17:47:50+01:00August 26th, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , , , , |

Early Years Family Fun Day

Join us and Martenscroft Children's Centre for a morning of fun for families of children with SEND aged 0-5 years living in Manchester! There will be loads to do - outdoor play, bubbles, tactile and messy play, music and art, plus a pop-up sensory