Roaring free fun and games at The Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre

999 Emergency - free fun and games Friday 7 August at The Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre

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Dinosaurs, gnomes, camping and emergency services are all part of the fun and games at Rochdale Exchange shopping centre’s free programme of children’s events this summer.

The 2015 season of Kids Club events kicks off with a special emergency services themed day on Friday 7 August.

999 Emergency sees young shoppers invited to join the action in the mall, as fun character Billy Bump has had an accident. He needs help to call the right emergency services to rescue him, during a day packed with games, decision making and sirens.

The session, run by actors and children’s entertainers from the Snapper Jaxx theatre group, runs from 11am until 4pm.

Other dates for the family diary over the summer are Let’s Go Camping on 14 August, Dinosaur Roar on 21 August and Garden Gnomes on 28 August.

The programme will be officially launched on August 7 by Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre’s first ever Director of Fun, school boy Samuel Doherty, from Norden.

Samuel was chosen for the year-long honorary role after the managers at Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre placed an advert to recruit a child with a great sense of fun to their team.

He was picked after sending in an audition video of himself telling a ‘knock-knock’ joke, and a letter explaining it was his birthday wish to be appointed Director of Fun.

Samuel’s first task will be to officially open the summer programme of Snapper Jaxx Kids Club events on 7 August – which is his ninth birthday.

Samuel, a pupil at Meanwood Primary School, will also have a special events meeting with shopping centre manager Lorenzo O’Reilly and Billy Bump of Snapper Jaxx to discuss ideas for how to make family events as fun as possible.

He will also be invited to attend other events during the year and help judge competitions.

Snapper Jaxx are performer-led activity clubs for children between the ages of 3-11 years old.

Also on the programme at Rochdale Exchange is the second event of the summer Let’s Go Camping, on 14 August, from 11am until 4pm. 

This time young shoppers are invited on a role play journey into the woods, let in the mall by Captain Camp and Wilder Wildernessicals. Children will learn the basics of setting up camp, singing campfire songs and of course… how to not get eaten by a bear.

On 21 August, the Dinosaur Roar event, again from 11am until 4pm, is sure to attract a crowd.

Step back in time with Terry Dactyl and her team on a dino stomping, rip ROARing, storytelling adventure.

Finding fossils is the theme of the day, and maybe, just maybe, even locating the whereabouts of the long lost Doyouthinkesaurous dinosaur.

This promises to be a fun packed prehistoric adventure from start to finish – a must for little dinosaur lovers with large imaginations.

The final event of the summer events season is at the other end of the size scale – with a day dedicated to Garden Gnomes, on 28 August.

Children are invited to join Gnoreen and Gnogo the Gnomes for a tiny adventure on a big scale, as there's a big problem at the bottom of the garden and they need help.

Gnogo's fishing rod has mysteriously disappeared and she needs the Snapper Jaxx team to find out where it has gone. Did HogPog the Frog, hop away with it? Did Dilbert the dog dig a hole and bury it?

Go along to the session, between 11am and 4pm, for a great garden adventure.

For more information about Rochdale Exchange visit:

http://www.rochdaleexchange.co.uk/whats-on/events