Social Clubs
Broadleaf runs three social groups each week, offering a space for families to spend quality time together, with options for enrichment activities if they wish to join in:
Wednesday Mornings
12-16 years
9.30am-12.30pm
Offering a welcoming space to families with teens aged 12-16 years, our Wednesday morning family sessions are focused, as always, on building confidence and community.
With plenty of time to socialise in a supported space, we offer optional family activities including a variety of practical, life skills and interest-based projects.
In the last year, we have worked on ethics projects, explored the mathematical world, solved problems, built spaghetti bridges, undertaken engineering challenges, written letters to our future selves and much more.
For 2025-26, our Wednesday Projects are based on:
Project 1: John Muir Conservation Award
Project 2: Life Skills Club
Friday Mornings
12-16 years
9.30am-12.30pm
Friday family sessions are developed in the same way as Wednesdays, offering a space for families to spend time with others, creating a social hub to prevent isolation or loneliness for families educating outside of school.
We often organise interesting visitors for our families, including the police, vintage buses, animal visits, creative workshops, maypole dance tasters and more.
In the last year, we have built a show garden with BBC Gardener’s World Show and Culture in Common, written a novel with the South Bank Centre and visited the Turner Sims Theatre.
For 2025-26, our Friday Projects are based on:
Project 1: Around the World
Project 2: Creative Connections
Friday Mornings - Acorns
0-12 years
10am-12pm
Acorns is a free-flow social space for Home Educating families with children under 12 years old. With our three acre meadow, games and toys to use, and lots of outdoor fun, it’s a lovely, relaxed space where children can play and adults can socialise.
Acorns is a drop-in group where any family with younger children is welcome to pop along.
You and your children are very welcome to join us, making the most of the lovely space we have, getting stuck in at the allotment, playing in the mud kitchen, sharing biscuits or running free in the secure meadow.
For the next term, some of our Acorns families have come together to organise an optional Musical Theatre club running on from Acorns, aiming to spark creativity while building confidence and self-esteem.
