Community Connections: Social and Recreational
Forward Steps Mobility relishes the opportunity to provide our popular civic participation group activities, including:
- Fun and Informative Daytrips
- Orientation & Mobility Travel Training Days
- New, Interesting and Unique Recreations
- Social Occasions
- Sensory Awareness Experiences
- Community Explorations
- “Mystery Tour Destinations”, to Surprise Locations
- Destinations & Activities of Your Choosing
- Family Oriented Options
- Couples Outings
- Tourists Visiting the Region
Our unique blind and low vision services are personalised, fun and engaging, creating appealing and unforgettable sensory experiences for all participants. We guarantee you’ll visit a mixture of interesting destinations, as well as participating in a variety of activities filled with sensory delights. Our outings are typically based around the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Northern NSW, in addition to periodically extending into other pockets of Southeast Queensland and beyond. Forward Steps Mobility’s group activities also includes transport, which is provided in the comfort of people movers, as well as Support Worker vehicles, sometimes public transport, and occasional access to a charter bus, depending on the activity type, participant numbers and destinations. Our group sizes vary from as little as two people, up to twenty-five people or more. Forward Steps Mobility also provides you with the flexibility of tailoring your own destinations and activities, whether as a couple, enjoying a day’s outing, or with family, or a group of friends.
Varying our Locations & Activities
Whether walking along beachfront foreshores, boardwalks and cafe precincts, or exploring public transport and mystery tour destinations, we offer interesting, informative, enjoyable and personable sensory experiences. Some examples of our activities and locations include:
- Beachfront Walks
- Bushwalking Expeditions
- Gold Coast Botanic Gardens
- QPAC Performances
- Tandem Skydiving
- High Teas
- Roma Street Parklands
- Animal Sanctuaries
- River & Broadwater Cruises
- BBQ’s/ Cafés/ Restaurants
- Sculpture Trails & Wine Tasting
- Story Bridge Climb
- Tandem Cycling & Blind Tennis
- Solar Powered Train Ride
- Cape Bryon Light House
- The Farm, Byron Bay
- Tina Arena Concert
The Benefits of Participating in Our Group Activities
Our group activities are designed to promote opportunities around social and recreational participation, as well as Orientation & Mobility (O&M) skills application within local and regional communities. In addition, all of our group activities are provided from a strengths-based perspective, under the expert leadership of our O&M Specialist, Kim Pilic. The benefits of participating in our group activities include:
- Application of O&M skills & Learning
- Independent daily living promotion
- Peer support camaraderie
- Increased social engagements
- New recreations
- Blindness/ low vision commonalities
- Dog guide and white cane travel
- Knowledge and resource sharing
- Friendship connections
- Sense of accomplishment
- Socially inclusive community participation
- Emotional wellbeing
- Increased orientation awareness
- New environs explored
- Community access
- Physical wellbeing through exercise
Individuals participating in our group activities are provided with a uniquely supported capacity to enjoy new recreational locations, as well as socially connecting with others. The benefits of participating are invaluable, and cannot be overstated. Contact us today for a friendly chat about connecting and participating in our unique group activities – you won’t be disappointed!