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 […]
Steph is an intern on our Routes to Employment programme. She wanted to write and share a blog post of her experience so far of the current Covid-19 lockdown. Lockdown over the last number of weeks has been extremely difficult for me. This is because I am used to being occupied 24/7, due to the […]
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 […]
For the past 12 weeks the interns have completing their learning virtually. They have been keeping in keep in touch with their tutors via phone and email and all have participated in our weekly group and 1:1 zoom meetings. We have really enjoyed the PSHE weekly themes, particularly exploring topics such as mental health, healthy […]
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 […]
As you may know this years Mental health awareness week had the theme of Kindness! Last week during Mental Health Awareness week the HS4LC intern group returned to the theme of mental health – with a particular focus on Kindness. They have been exploring the importance of kindness to others and kindness to themselves. It […]
