The annual Options Street Party returns to the Pioneering Care Centre, Newton Aycliffe, on Thursday, 16th August 2018 from 12pm-4pm. The event is being organised by the members who attend Options, a day service for adults with learning disabilities based at the PCP. Last year’s event was a huge success with over 900 people attending throughout the day and the members have been working really hard to make this year’s event an even bigger success. The Options Street Party is free to attend and everyone is welcome so come along for a fun-packed day.

The Options Street Party will take over the Pioneering Care Centre grounds for a day of family fun. The day will consist of a street party in the staff car park with live music, DJs and performances, funfair, strong man challenge, police interceptors, disco dome bouncy castle, bungee run, Mr Bungle children’s entertainer, penalty shootout and hook a duck. Inside the centre there will be stalls and activities including craft stalls, cupcake stalls, face painting and the coffee shop will be serving delicious homemade food including quiche, toasties and jacket potatoes, and a selection of scones and cakes.

There will also be a Bake Off-style competition on the day which is free to enter. We kindly request you to bring along your showstopper! It can be anything from a bread masterpiece to a celebration cake, all baking abilities welcome. Guests will vote for their favourites during the event and there will be a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Once decided, the show stoppers will be divided into portions and sold to anyone who wants a try with all of the money raised going to Options.

On the evening there will also be a Disco and BBQ from 5:30-8pm with some very special Star Wars-themed guests.

Tickets for the BBQ and disco are £3 per person and include a burger or hot dog.

Each year the members of Options take part in a sponsored activity to raise money for the Options project and this year the members will be taking part in a Fancy Dress Challenge where they will all don fancy dress outfits and take part in different challenges throughout the day. Challenges will include a live karaoke performance, superhero challenge and a dance.

If anyone would like to sponsor the members to take part in the Fancy Dress Challenger or simply support the Options project, you can do so by donating to their Just Giving page at https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/options2018 or by following the group by searching on Facebook for Options at PCP. Everyone at Options hopes to see you there!