The Chamwell Centre Charity Shortlisted for Two SoGlos Lifestyle & Community Awards 2026

The Chamwell Centre Charity has been shortlisted in the SoGlos Lifestyle & Community Awards 2026 for both Café / Coffee Shop of the Year and Charity of the Year. The awards celebrate the charity’s positive community impact and the success of its welcoming café. Winners are decided by public vote, and supporters are encouraged to cast their vote to help The Chamwell Centre Charity take home the awards. 💛

Vote for The Chamwell Centre Charity at Tesco!

The Chamwell Centre Charity is part of Tesco Stronger Starts. Vote in-store with your blue token to help us secure up to £1,500 for inclusive activities for children with disabilities in Gloucestershire.

Announcement - National Lottery Community Funding

Christmas Timetable 2025

We're pleased to share our timetable covering the Christmas period...

October 2025 - Latest Timetable

Our latest timetable provides details for the hydrotherapy pool, soft play and more...

Chamwell Champ Spotlight!

This summer, our superstar Lewin came to The Chamwell Centre 15 times during the holidays with his mum, Vicky!

Finally Somewhere Accessible for Henry!

On Friday, Henry had his very first visit to our hydrotherapy pool. He came along with his mum Steph and his grandparents — a special family day out after making the 45-minute journey from their home to reach us.

Thursday morning 'Term Time' Soft Play

Our Soft Play is available from 9.00-1.00 on a Thursday during term time. This can be booked via our website for general use or can be booked for private hire.

Chamwell Cafe Play Area

Our play area in the cafe is there for all children to explore and enjoy. It's a wonderful free element to our community cafe.

Could you be a fabulous fundraiser like Miles?

Miles is a pupil at The Milestone School - not only does Miles enjoy using the Chamwell Centre facilities during the school day he also visits us with his family during school holidays and on the weekends.

Celebrate our Volunteer

Meet Alex - Alex volunteers for us one day a week in the Chamwell Community Café

Lucy and family hold a fabulous fundraising event at Highnam Court

Lucy wanted to hold this fundraising event, as she has been so grateful for the support and help Chamwell has given her and her family.

Be part of something life changing

The Chamwell Centre is Gloucestershire’s visionary, unique and only facility of its kind in the county that aims to transform the lives and wellbeing of children, young people and adults with disability.

Cader Idris Mountain Race

Ras y Gader, the Cader Idris mountain race, one of the toughest fell races in Wales, and viewed by many as a classic "must do" race. The event starts and finishes in the market town of Dolgellau, at sea level, and climbs almost 3000ft to the summit of Pen y Gader itself. One of the real challenges of the race is the constantly changing terrain, switching from steep metalled roads to flat tracks behind Gwernan lake, pitched steps up the Pony Path, and picking your way among the boulder fields on the final ascent........and then you've got to do it all in reverse!

Soundabout Choir

We're working towards our first ever performance at Worcester Cathedral in partnership with Worcestershire’s Inclusive Choir. The event will take place on the evening of Sunday 12th June at 6:30 pm - 7:15pm. We will be be learning a new song to perform at the event, which is Amazing Grace.

Molly's Blog

Welcome to my blog - To all you explorers!  I first found out about the Chamwell Centre Charity as I was looking for hydrotherapy facilities in the area. After more research I really admire what they offer to young children and adults with disabilities and learning difficulties.

Adventure Race South Africa 3 weeks to go!

How time flies!! - only 3 weeks to go, managed to complete a 50km run with our 8kg rucksack on Sunday, so our training is still on track.

HRH The Princess Royal officially opens the Chamwell Centre

We are delighted to report that Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, officially opened the Chamwell Centre on Tuesday 25 January.

Adventure Race South Africa 8 weeks to go

Yikes we only have eight weeks left until we fly to South Africa (SA) for our next adventure race.

Adventure Race South Africa

Many of you who visit the Chamwell Centre will know of (the always cheerful) Julie de Leeuw. Not only is she Chamwell’s Operations Manager, she’s also our in-house ‘pocket rocket’. When most of us are thinking of how we can spend our days away from work relaxing at home or with friends and family, Julie is planning her training schedule. You remember that day last week when it reached 2 degrees Celsius? Well, Julie had her day off and was out kayaking. “Sorry!”, she typed in her text – “my fingers are freezing, I can’t type properly I’m so cold after 40 miles of kayaking”. You see, Julie and her husband Anton are Adventure Racers.