To expect baby group to be open during the holidays

[PeggyPatchandPoppy]

I live in the countryside and I'm fairly isolated. I have a newish baby and enjoyed going to baby group 3 days a week. I didn't particularly have any friends there but enjoyed the process of going somewhere different to the village shop and talking to different people.
The groups finish this week because it's the end of term. That means that me and DD have no where to go to interact with other parents. The library clubs have always stopped for half term so we are really stuck for things to do.
I know there are reasons the clubs can't run during term time E.g. Parents have to older children they need to do activities with. Am I being unreasonable in thinking they could keep at least one club a week going?

It's completely normal. As well as the volunteers, a lot of the babies probably have school age siblings too. You don't need to organise / host a baby club though. Why not collect some numbers (send a 'summer activities sign up sheet' round if you are shy) then set up a WhatsApp to meet in a local park, play centre, cafe, library ....

Surestart centres are still open all through the holidays and the groups still run. Do you have any in your area. We do 3 groups a week, 1 is at a church hall which closes for holidays but the 2 at the surestart childrens centres are still on

It is so hard and I struggled with my first in holidays as I needed the interaction as much if not more than my child but sadly that is how it is.
Network, network network. You make mummy friends that will be in the same situation. Good luck op. Xx

Time to bite the bullet and start your own....

And if it seems like too much work then you've answered your original question, OP.

I sympathize. I used to run a Baby and Toddler Group as an unpaid volunteer. It's tricky in the summer as so many people go on holiday or have older kids so don't come. We did try it but people tended to go to the park etc instead anyway. It got harder as my own dd got older too as it wasn't fair to her either. Eventually we had no choice but to not run in the holidays. Maybe organize to meet up at a coffee shop or the park as a group?

YABU for complaining when you don't volunteer
^this^
As someone who volunteers to help run a group, but is doing so because no one else will take it over to give me a break, I'm afraid I have little sympathy for the mothers who were complaining to me yesterday that there was no where for them to go during the holidays because my group closes during school holidays. if I step down completely it won't run at all and that would be worse.
Have a word with the organisers, they might welcome a new pair of hands to open up during the holidays.

All the playgroups i know break for the holidays, like the schools do, could u maybe suggest to do something with one of the other mums? Soft play, park, meal out, afternoon tea?

Our children's centres get together and run a reduced summer programme, although things do get booked up very quickly.

Have you got the apps Mush and/or Peanut? I recently moved and they've been great for meeting people. Sort of like Tinder for mums.

Do you have a surestart centre. Ours still runs the stay and plays but also other activities . They have passed each week o something eg dessert , water, mountains . They also offer lots of activities that arent normally on. Maybe some will be based on older children but the one at ours are pretty much open to all ages. We went to a couple last summer hols and still had decent turnout. Im not planning on going this year unless weather bit rubbish as my lb 4 now so we are hoping to go out for more days out. I would say worth a look at your local centre, also libary still does activities ours does song based ones and storys and have you checked out any soft plays they sometimes have meet up/ groups. Also i artvenrures/ little learners ect do holiday activities near us. We went to a little learner out door party last year it was really really good. Hope that helps i would also if you know any of the mums numbers/ facebbok message them as they may be in same position and want to meet up at each others house/ soft play/ park.