2025 REGISTRATION is now closed

CHiPS 2025 will run from Monday, 28th July to Friday, 1st August 2025 (9:00 - 15:00; doors open 8:30) 

CHiPS is a one-week volunteer-run Summer camp for children aged 5-11 years (your child must have reached the age of 5 years prior to CHiPS due to insurance restrictions), and for residents of Cholsey and Moulsford only.

CHiPS has taken place in Cholsey for 50 years and is run by a voluntary committee and staffed by play leaders and volunteers.

PLEASE READ THE BELOW INFORMATION CAREFULLY, EVEN IF YOUR CHILD HAS BEEN TO CHiPS BEFORE, AS SOME OF IT MAY HAVE CHANGED and email cholseychips@gmail.com if you have any queries.

Registration

To register your child(ren) for a place at CHiPS, please:

1. Set up a WebCollect account and sign in. Last year's membership details have been deleted, so a new account should be set up this year. 
2. Click on the Cholsey Holiday PlayScheme event (to right of this text); you must be signed in to see this. Note you will need to complete this process (steps 2 to 5) separately for each child you would like to attend CHiPS.
3. You will be asked to select the days and trips you would like your child to attend (See trip details below).
4. If the day or trip is full, you can select the WAITING LIST option for that day or trip, and places will be allocated by the Registration Team. You will be contacted by email regarding waiting list places, and any payment required.
5. Once you are happy with the selections in your basket, please check out. At this point you will be asked to complete a form with your details, child's details, medical declarations, GDPR consent, etc.   
6. You can then proceed to payment options: BACS is preferred, but cash and cheques are also accepted. Remember to complete steps 2 to 5 for each child.

IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

We have found that the children benefit from attending consistently every day, so we encourage booking the whole week where possible.

If your child has additional or medical requirements, you must contact us immediately after registering to discuss your child's needs, and whether or not we can accommodate them.

To ensure the safety and wellbeing of all, the Committee reserves the right to decline registration if we cannot meet a child's needs.

CHiPS is a not for profit organisation and is run by the community, for the community. A dedicated committee volunteer their time to plan, book and run this event - you can help our teams by:

1. Planning ahead and discussing trips with children and other parents - any changes to bookings and waiting lists have to be processed manually, resulting in a great workload for our registration and treasurer teams. For this reason, Days and Trips booked at CHiPS are non refundable.
2. We know that CHiPS is very popular, but please do not panic book - booking incorrect or duplicate spaces creates hours of work for our teams to fix in the system. It also fills up (waiting list) spaces more quickly, discouraging others to make a booking.
3. Take care to enter contact, medical and emergency details completely and accurately - we must have correct information for your child and therefore have to follow up each entry that looks incomplete or incorrect.
4. Secure your child's space(s) by making payment within 7 days of booking. The registration and treasurer teams will review your details and payments made. If we have any questions we will contact parents/guardians via email - if you do not hear from us your child is booked in. PLEASE NOTE although tickets are mentioned in confirmation messages and emails, these are NOT required (unfortunately we are unable to remove these automated messages)

Fees and Activities

It costs £12 per day for your child to attend CHiPS.

This covers the basics: Hall Hire, Play leader time, Insurance, Craft Materials, etc.

It is our aim to be as inclusive as possible, so please note that there are special funds available, through local grants, for families in financial difficulty, those with restricted incomes or those on Income Support or JSA. PLEASE feel free to approach any of the committee in confidence as we would like to give all children in Cholsey the opportunity to join in this fun week.

There are a number of activities available throughout the week for the children to take part in, as well as organised trips (with limited spaces and at extra cost). 

Other activities available during the week:

Outdoor sports and games - basketball, football, badminton, volleyball, etc

Arts and Crafts - sewing, woodwork, board games, lego, loom bands, painting, etc. 

Indoor games - snooker, pool, table tennis, darts, chess etc.

Giant board games - Jenga, chess, etc.

Trips 2025

MONDAY

No external trips.

TUESDAY

Oxygen/Red Kangaroo trampolining - £20 - all ages

Packed lunch required.

Waiver required – send a screen shot of the completed Oxygen waiver to cholseychips@gmail.com  Your child's place is not confirmed until a copy of the waiver has been seen by the committee.

Socks provided.

WEDNESDAY

Forest School - £3 - all ages

On site, outdoors, wear appropriate clothing: long sleeves, trousers and wellies are essential, whatever the weather.

Raincoat/sunhat and suncream.

Climbing Wall - Free of Charge - no booking required (on site)

THURSDAY

Silent Disco - Free of Charge - no booking required (on site)

FRIDAY

Bouncy Castle - Free of Charge - no booking required (on site)

Some trips may use hired coaches or train travel, so please arrive on time each morning. Play leaders will be in charge on all trips with appropriate ratios in place.

On the Day

What to bring:

1. Sensible shoes (no open toes)
2. Water bottle
3. Packed lunch or money for tuckshop in a named purse
4. Sunhat
5. Raincoat if wet

Please ensure children are dressed appropriately for all activities and trips. If the weather is hot, please ensure they have sun cream already applied. Please ensure all items are clearly named.

Timings:

CHiPS runs daily from 9:00 - 15:00; doors open at 8:30. If your child is unwell, and in particular, displaying Coronavirus or sickness bug symptoms, please do not send your child to CHiPS, and please notify us accordingly.

Drop off:

Children are dropped off between 8:30 - 9:00 at the Scout Hut (behind the Red Lion pub).

It is important that all children register each day they attend. We cannot guarantee the safety of any child left at the Scout Hut before registration. If a child is going to be late (after 9am), then it is the parent or guardian's responsibility to take them to the Scout Hut and inform an Adult Play leader of their arrival.

Pick up:

Please ensure your child is collected at 15:00 promptly from the Scout Hall behind The Red Lion pub, via the front entrance. We cannot guarantee their safety after this time. The departure of the children is supervised by a play leader and we will not allow any child of 8 or under to leave without an adult. If older children are walking home by themselves, you must have completed the permission slip available at morning registration.

Please note that our use of the Scout Hut does not include use of the Red Lion car park, so please do not use the pub car park for Drop off or Pick up.  

Bicycles and scooters:

We have no storage facilities for bikes or scooters. Please can they be left at home.

Lunch arrangements:

We provide a fruit bowl free of charge for snacking during the day.

A tuck shop is available at lunchtime. A suggested amount to bring is £1 - £1.50 for lunch.

Foods available include pasta pots, pizza slices, hot dogs, rolls/sandwiches, jacket potatoes, crisps, fromage frais, biscuits, fruit, sweets and drinks.

Children to bring their money in a named purse/container.

We do our best to monitor the children's spending at lunch to ensure they choose sensible lunch options and not just junk food! 

Children may bring their own packed lunches in a suitable box/bag which must be labelled. Please ensure packed lunches are suitable and have cool packs as we have no chilled storage. 

We require 1 parent helper each day to assist in the tuckshop. If you are able to spare time from 11:30 to 13:00 on any day(s), please email cholseychips@gmail.com. Thank you!

Other Information

Outside spaces:

During CHiPS we will use the outside space in the park to play ball games. All walks to and sessions in the park will be supervised by the play leaders and children must follow the instructions given. Failure to do so may lead to exclusion from CHiPS.

Care:

Play leaders and adult volunteers supervise children at CHiPS and every attempt is made to ensure that the children are supervised at all times. Adult Play leaders wear red T-Shirts and Junior Play leaders wear blue T-Shirts.

First aid:

Most of our Adult Play leaders have up to date First Aid Training. It is important that you ensure the Registration Team has accurate contact names and telephone numbers in case of any accident or illness. If your child has any health problems or special needs, please ensure these are included in the registration form.

Policies:

Copies of all of our Policies are available on request. Please email cholseychips@gmail.com.

Sponsors and donations:

We are incredibly grateful to John the Postie for raising funds for CHiPS in 2021. His efforts and generosity enabled us to provide the a Silent Disco free of charge to all children last year, and again this year. We are planning to spread the benefit of these funds over 5 years in total.

We have received funding from South Oxfordshire District Council via Councillor Simpson and Councillor Bloomfield and this has been used to provide funded places and craft materials.

Other donations received help fund further funded places and additional activities for all children attending CHiPS. We are proud to have been associated with the following local organisations who have supported CHiPS with donations or help in the past. Many thanks to them all. 

1. Cholsey 1000+
2. Cholsey Golf Society 
3. Cholsey Bluebirds
4. Cholsey Parish Council 
5. Tesco, Cholsey
6. Waitrose, Wallingford 
7. Cholsey Primary School
8. St Mary’s Church and Cholsey Scouts for use of their halls. 

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For any further information on CHiPS or if you would like to become involved on the committee, please contact: Cholseychips@gmail.com.