The Treehouse
Purpose built for individuals with special educational needs
Secure and safe space to attend with no judgment
What is The Treehouse?
The Treehouse, located in Hurn (opposite Bournemouth Airport), is a specialist venue created with children and adults with physical and learning disabilities in mind.
Facilities on-site include a large indoor soft play, learning kitchen, Changing Places toilet, sensory room, cinema room, games room, bouncy castles, trampolines, and mini golf.
Home to Diverse Abilities’ Short Breaks Services, the venue is also available for private hire for schools, youth groups, home education, alternative provisions, and other organisations.
How to access The Treehouse
Access to The Treehouse varies depending on whether or not you are already registered with Diverse Abilities and its services. For our Short Breaks Services, sessions can be booked through Schools Buddy once you are registered. For further information on how to access The Treehouse, including how to book for Private Hire if you are not registered with Diverse Abilities, please select the relevant option from the list below.
Contact us to find out more
If you’re interested to find out more about how to hire The Treehouse, please fill out the contact form and one of the team will get back to you within three working days. Please do keep in mind that this response time may be longer during the school holidays.
When filling in the form let us know what you’re planning to use The Treehouse for, who will be attending, how long you’d like to book for, if you’d like to book regularly or any other useful information. We will do our best to accommodate everyone’s needs.
We are also available for regular hires, so please get in touch. This would be suitable for schools or groups who could benefit from our space, including home education, alternative provisions or come and see the space with our regular Just Drop In events.
Little Squirrels
New SEN Under 5s Nurture Group at The Treehouse
Starting on Monday 4 November: 1-2.30pm
£5 per child
Prepare for songs, singing, sensory activities, and messy fun!
Meet other parents, whilst playing with your child in a safe and enclosed environment. Facilities include sensory room, changing places toilet, large soft play, pretend play area and more. There will be themed weekly activities with a focus on preparing your child for school or nursery and building on their communication and engagement.
This group is for children with SEN or awaiting a diagnosis. Siblings are welcome to attend, also at a cost of £5 per child.
Payment is made on arrival, and there is no need to pre-book, so feel free to just turn up. Hot drinks and biscuits provided.
Future Plans
We are working hard to further develop The Treehouse and all the services we have to offer, and the current phases of development are in the works:
Phase Two - an accessible sensory garden, go kart and scooter track with road safety education, play part area with accessible swings.
Phase Three - further outdoor activities including, but not limited to, water play, archery, air rifle shooting and outdoor learning.
Are you able to help?
Following the successful completion of the first phase of our development to open the site, we are still looking for volunteers and supporters to help us continue turning our plans into reality.
This is a huge redevelopment programme, and we also require financial support or gifts in kind so if you’d like to get involved, please click here to contact our fundraising team.
Interested in working for us?
Want a career where no day is the same? Want to make a difference? Diverse Abilities needs you.
We believe exceptional support starts with exceptional people, who have a fun outlook on life and can think outside the box. You will deliver practical, physical, social, and emotional support to individuals. We’ll offer a variety of benefits, depending on the role, including a variety of contracts from zero hours to full time, enhanced overtime rates, £50 per sleep in, free training that we pay you to attend, staff rewards scheme, retention and referral bonuses and free enhanced DBS.
Want to know more about what it’s really like to work in care?
Click here to listen to our podcast, Reasons to Care, presented by Michelle Turner, Supported Living Deputy Manager, and Clare Rochford, Children’s Team Manager. With new episodes each month, you’ll find out more about what it’s like to work for Diverse Abilities, how people have progressed their careers over 20 years and longer, what our support means for our families, and how local businesses get involved in helping us reach our goal of making every day better for children and adults with physical and learning disabilities.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and YouTube.
