Our Animals Need More Bedding - Please Donate

Its been a long hard winter at our Poets Corner site. You see it sits right at the bottom of the valley smack between Shooters Hill and Wickham Open Space. The temperatures really drop in the mornings. When Bexley had a sleety-rain last week, we had big fluffy snow. Its not unusual for everything to be iced up overnight, with temperatures down to minus 6 or more! Its a right old cold trap!!

Which brings us on to our mammal enclosures which are located onsite. During the winter months we have to make sure that we have plenty of warm bedding for our fluffy friends. Most have straw packed into their sleeping quarters, but straw does not work for our Ferrets (prone to respiratory problems with straw dust), Roxy raccoon dog, The Meerkat families and the Dumbo Rats for example. We also get through lots of towels drying our two therapy dogs, once they come back from walks with our students caked in mud!

ADO Appoint HY Solicitors

We are pleased to announce ADO have tied up a partnership with legal company H Y Solicitors. The company based in Rochdale will be providing consultancy and legal support for our education services. This now completes our line-up of legal counsel, emcompassing all our services and internal HR. 

Co-op Local Community Fund

We are pleased to have been chosen to benefit from the Co-op Community Fund again this year. The last fund provided a welcome £3671.92 which went along way towards buidling the Roundhouse at the Mini-Explorers Preschool and all the accessories like the wood burning stove. 

We will again be partnering with the Valliers Wood  Co-op Supermarket on Halfway Street, Sidcup. 

You will again be helping raise funds for ADO! Shoppers that purchase Co-op branded products and services will raise money for ADO right up until the end of October 2019. Yes, that's a whole year of fundraising. ADO will also recieve an equal share from the sale of carrier bags.

The more you shop, the more Co-op will share with us.

Preschool Job Opportunities at ADO

We currently have two job opportunities within our ADO Mini-Explorers Preschoool Nursery. These positions would suit early years educators looking for a challenging role in an outdoor education environment at our Outstanding OFSTED rated preschool based in Bexley.

The two roles offer 30 hour term term only and 40 hour full time positions with varying rates of pay.

To find out more visit our Job Opportunities page and scroll to the bottom where the job opportunities can be found listed. HERE>

The instructions on how to apply will be advised within each job role advertised.

A Wildlife Corridor

Recently we received a number of shrubs and trees from the Woodland Trust for the land at Poets Corner as part of their free tree packs for the community. We ordered 30 Small Hedge Saplings and 30 Small Copse Saplings. The small hedge included species like Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Dogrose, Crab Apple, Elder and Hazel. The copse species included Rowan, Silver Birch, Wild Cherry and Maple. These little sticks of life were destined to improve the diversity on the land in a number of ways.

Goodwill at Christmas from Kings Church London

We would like to thank Kings Church London for their donation via the London Borough of Lewisham Family Support teams, for three large hampers to be distributed to some of our more vulnerable of service users this Christmas. The 'Big Red Box' initiative involves the community donating food to Kings Church, before being packed in a Big Red Box and then distributed to organisations who can support some of their most vulnerable service users. Thanks Kings Church London!