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2025 was a busy year!
Weekly activities – long lasting projects – regular life-skills events.
From full-on gardening to regular football and ice skating sessions and through our wide-ranging activities programme, important projects and events, Sonshine Club have supported and helped disadvantaged children and young people within the Hackney and Haringey communities.
Our 2026 programme will include the best from 2025 and introduce new, exciting projects and events, including a large scale winter playscheme for SEND young people.
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Weekly Activities
Events & Messages
Sonshine Club young people enjoying ice skating every Tuesday at Lee Valley
Friday football going strong
Cutting the birthday cake to share with friends
Message from
CAMHS PSYCHOLOGIST
Hackney Ark November 2025
The photos I've seen at the Sonshine Club Gardening Project always look so joyful. There is a lovely sense of collaboration and everyone working together to take care of the plants and vegetables.
Extra-curricular spaces and projects where young people with and without additional needs can learn and play together are invaluable for supporting social skills and facilitating opportunities for positive peer-to-peer interactions.
Harvest from the Park!
Springfield Park
Gardening sessions in Springfield Park were a huge success during the spring and summer of 2025. Many thanks to The National Lottery who funded this.
Growing together
Growing Minds
This gardening project now encompasses 13 schools and has had a positive impact on the young people involved. View our info-graphic Growing Minds or visit our Projects page.
Happy days
Skating sessions
Mixed ability groups now have weekly sessions at Lee Valley Ice Rink and you can see how much they enjoy it!
Nearly lunch time
Play-scheme
A new 4 day play-scheme for 2026. Targeting SEND young people it includes servings of hot food. Thank you to the Mayor of London – Kitchen Social, for the sponsorship of this important new scheme.
Hackney Ark November 2025
"The photos I've seen at the Sonshine Club Gardening Project always look so joyful. There is a lovely sense of collaboration and everyone working together to take care of the plants and vegetables.
Extra-curricular spaces and projects where young people with and without additional needs can learn and play together are invaluable for supporting social skills and facilitating opportunities for positive peer-to-peer interactions."
CAMHS Psychologist
It's never full-time here
Football sessions
Still going strong and includes mixed ability teaching with regular weekly sessions – funded by Young Hackney.