Opportunities Unlimited have secured a grant, funding their Creative Health Project to open the Saturday Club.

William Neville Jones a young man from Poole has kindly donated some PPE to our charity.

Continue reading “Covid 19 – Thinking of Others”

Thank you to All Souls Masonic Lodge for the donation enabling us to get a new picnic bench for everyone to use when we take a break and eat Al fresco!

In the spring, service users from the Tricuro Directions group took part in swimming sessions funded by Dorset Community Foundation.

Continue reading “Swimming with Confidence!”

In May 2017 the Charity commissioned an art workshop provider to deliver a wreath-making workshop at the Ridgeway Centre in Weymouth. 

One of the men in the Ridgeway group had been struggling to engage in activities and had become very isolated.

The staff had used egg trays and paint as a kind of art therapy. Whilst he concentrated on painting, they were able to break down some of the barriers resulting in a happy, talkative gentleman and a massive pile of colourful egg trays that they didn’t know what to do with!  He had been painting them for the last 7 months.

Along with the Ridgeway staff, she delivered the workshop to a group of 9 service users with a vast range of abilities. One lady used her eyebrows to convey which colour paint she wanted her support worker to use. 

We spent the morning painting and constructing a wreath, engaging in conversation and having a thoroughly enjoyable time.

Each and every group member engaged to the best of their ability. It was especially nice for the gentleman who had been meticulously painting the trays, to see his efforts transformed into a beautiful work of art

I contacted the Ridgeway Centre the following week for feedback and was informed that they had gone on to make a further two wreaths and that they were in the process of making more.

Learning in Action

 

Last year we were lucky enough to receive funding from the Southwell Street Fayre committee in Portland to buy an Ipad.  

The tablet has proved to be very popular as we have been able to link it to our network and use with groups as well as it providing independent learning opportunities.  

 

 

 

JUNE 2017

The Charity has funded a DCC initiative to set up a Dorset wide Safe Places Scheme.

Safe Places are where people with learning disabilities can go if they have a problem when they are out.

People will be supported to complete and carry an ICE card and to identify Safe Places in their community.

There will be an app.

Local businesses that have joined the scheme will display the Safe Places sticker in their window, contact the named person on the ICE card and provide a place of safety until support arrives.

Thanks to a grant from Portland Harbour Authority (Portland Port Ltd) we were able to host another successful Sports day in aid of Comic Relief.  We invited a range of day care services along. A great deal of fun was had by all and they were rewarded with refreshments including a Red Nose Day muffin!