WALTHAM Forest Dyslexia Association is restarting its Saturday Club at a new venue and with a slightly different format.

The club is for dyslexic children aged six and over and their parents or carers. It aims to provide fun activities to help the children as well as providing information for the adults. Children attending must be accompanied by an adult, who stays with them for the afternoon.

The club meets once a month in term time with the first session on Saturday.

The theme will be Brain Gym, exercises to get both halves of the brain working together, and will be led by Wendy Wright.

Other sessions planned for this term are dyspraxia with June Gray offering exercises and activities to improve fine motor skills on Saturday, February 14, and literacy games with Wendy Wright, a fun way to improve literacy skills, on Saturday, March 20.

The venue is the Community Place, 806 High Road, Leyton.

This is the former KwikSave building, opposite Tesco and is where the association will have its new premises, when the building works are complete.

The afternoon is from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Admission is £1 per family and includes refreshments, but is free to members of the association.

The Saturday Club is the first of the Dyslexia Association's new range of activities. In February it plans to start literacy tutorials.

This will be followed as soon as possible by numeracy tutorials and further activities when the new Dyslexia Centre opens, hopefully in March.

The centre is being developed with the help of a number of grants including £4,700 from the Guardian through its parent company's Gannett Foundation. The money will be used to buy computers for teaching and office equipment.

For details of the Saturday Club or other activities, call 8529 4169 or 8520 7370.

The association welcomes new members. Membership is £12.50 per year and you can join by phoning for an application form or at the Saturday club.