Safeside - West Midlands Fire Service

A unique safety and learning experience for children and adults alike

What is Safeside?

Our Safeside centre at Eastside provides experiential safety learning for children, young people and adults, designed and maintained to complement the current PSHE curriculum.

Eastside

Our Eastside centre features our immersive, full-size indoor safety village. It has several scenarios including a bank, house, road, shop, police station and canal. It allows children to learn about real dangers, within a safe and controlled environment.

What’s on offer?

The Smart Choices programme teaches Year 5 and 6 children, about the fire service, life skills, personal safety, travel safety, good citizenship, road and car safety and staying safe in the home.

The SEN programme teaches children, young people and adults about the fire service, life skills, personal safety, travel safety, good citizenship, road and car safety and staying safe in the home.

Our programmes

All Safeside programmes recognise that individuals learn in different ways.

Discussion through open questions that stimulate independent thought and problem-solving is very important.

Our Safeside centre offers a variety of education programmes for young people.

Each learning point is addressed through visual, auditory or kinesthetic means. For example, visitors will discuss choosing safe routes to walk home but will also experience an unsafe route including sounds and darkness.

Our programmes address the real, evidence-based issues for the visitor group. For example, issues faced by primary school children about to move to secondary school.

In general, we book tours for organised groups such as schools, nurseries, youth or special needs groups.

A Safeside volunteer talking to children about fires

Smart Choices

Book or enquire

If you've like to book on one of our programmes, or make an enquiry, just use our form below.

Safeside Programme Enquiry

Is your school or group inside, or outside, the West Midlands?

Within the West Midlands

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What are you looking for today?

First Name

Last Name

Name of school or group

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Local authority education area

What is the age range or year group of who you'd like to bring?

For example, Year 6 or 10-12 years

Total number of learners or pupils

Please enter the total number of learners, not including teaching/support staff

Total number of teachers or support staff

Please enter the total number of learners, not including teaching/support staff

Please note: For the Smart Choice programme a minimum of 4 teachers or supervisors will be required to supervise children's activity in some of our scenarios

Please enter your enquiry here

Medical or special needs of learners or visitors

This information allows us to ensure we have the most suitable staff available for your visit

Any learners or pupils with language barriers?

This information allows us to ensure we have the most suitable staff available for your visit

To make sure we can offer you the best time for your visit, please enter your 3 most preferred dates.

Your visit date will not be booked and confirmed until you hear back from us and we confirm your booking.

Certain courses only run on certain days, see below:

Smart Choices - Tues, Weds and Thurs

First preferred date

Second preferred date

Third preferred date

How will you be getting to Safeside?

For example, School bus, private transport

Any other information?

If there's any other notes or information you'd like to ask, or tell us about, regarding your visit, tell us here.

How did you hear about Safeside?

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How to find us

Our address

Safeside at Eastside
101 Vauxhall Road
Birmingham
West Midlands
B7 4HW

Public Transport

For just BUS travel you can use the ‘Class Pass’ service to book discount travel within the West Midlands – for details see their website or email classpass@nationalexpress.com

For bus, train and Metro travel there is another ‘Class Pass’ scheme for discounted travel in the West Midlands – visit their website or call 0345 303 6760.

Our supporters

Safeside is run by West Midlands Fire Service, but we receive support from all these companies to make it possible.