So when the individual routines and daily schedules for 13 very different adults in our service are put on hold for an indeterminate amount of time, we had to ask ourselves: - How do you keep up a schedule of interesting and varied activities? - How do we keep spirits up, keep residents moving, and […]
Time to Talk Day 2021 takes place tomorrow - Thursday 4th February. We understand how important it is to get everyone talking about mental health this Time to Talk Day! This year’s focus is on the power of small, because however you have a conversation about mental health – whether it’s a quick text to […]
COVID-19 National Lockdown November 2020. As you will be aware, the government announced that England will enter a month-long lockdown starting on Thursday 5th November. Harrogate Skills 4 Living Centre has taken the decision to close day-centre activities at 9 North Park Road, St. Georges Community Centre, the Baptist Church and Bilton Area Methodist Church […]
Our Computers: Films and Animation group is a creative computer course in which clients take part in filming activities, create animations and place themselves at the heart of their own computer generated world. The group have been busy making some halloween inspired animations. We wanted to share a couple of them with you. We hope […]
What else do we like that comes from deepest darkest Peru?
26 October 2020
In 2018 we started running a 12 month supported employment program where students have the chance to work for an organisation with additional classroom sessions designed to enhance the skills needed to survive in employment. We realised early on that many of our students are not ready for this without significant support and time invested […]
We reopened some of our day centre activites from the 6th July and we are all so glad to be back! With reopening we have had to put some new processes into place - these are nothing to worry about and are just to make sure we are doing our part in keeping day centre […]
We are very excited to say we are now the proud owners of a new wheelchair accessible vehicle which is for our care home residents and day centre service users. The new vehicle has already been put to use with care home residents excited to get out and about after easing of the current lockdown […]
From 6th July we decided to re-open some of our day-services because we believe we can do so in a safe way. We spoke to many of our clients who wanted to return and have put in place the necessary measures to keep clients and staff safe by following all the available guidance. Although we […]
Dear all, Just a quick update to let you all know that we’re working really hard behind the scenes so that we can welcome you back to HS4LC as soon as possible. Things will certainly be different because we have to make sure that both you and our staff are kept as safe as possible. […]
This weekend our amazing team of carers held a “day at the zoo” at Brackenley Care Home for all the residents. The day started with a specially printed out ticket to hand out at the door for entrance to the zoo. The team at Brackenley bought some blow up animals on amazon for the attractions […]
