Coming out of the first lockdown meant that companies and businesses were not hiring or taking on people for work placements. This left our Skills Bridge interns with a lot of gaps to fill on their timetables. The idea was to set up a social enterprise that the interns could run, teaching them about designing […]
Staff and learners alike are incredibly proud of James Owen Thomas, a current learner on our Skills Bridge Preparation for Adulthood programme, who recently donated his original artwork, “Over the Rainbow” to his local NHS surgery Feastfield Medical Centre, Pateley Bridge. James’ unique artwork combines his passion for nature and the environment, using waste materials […]
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 […]
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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 […]
You may of seen our blog post by James last week which introduced you to the latest Christmas enterprise group set up by learners on our Skills Bridge Programme. If you missed it let us give you a little recap.... The Craft Tree is a new enterprise started by the staff and learners on our […]
For the past 10 months (with a 4 month break in between due to Covid – 19) job coach Katie has offered Andrew support. Andrew works as part of the ground maintenance team at Covance. His daily tasks involve collecting leaves that have fallen from trees, litter picking, sweeping the pavements and window cleaning. His […]
My name is James and I’m a keen artist and a learner on the Skills bridge programme here at HS4LC. I am writing my first blog post for the HS4LC website about "The Craft Tree". What is The Craft Tree?....I’ll explain more to you with regular updates but it is a new enterprise started by […]
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 […]
