The Brothers of Charity Services in Lancashire has various social enterprises for adults with learning disabilities; these services are designed to support people to develop skills with confidence in a supportive working environment whilst offering services into the local community.
The social enterprises carry out lots of great, fun activities for the people we support and the local communities to get involved with. Here you will be able to find out what each of the social enterprises have been up to this week.
The Walled Garden
It’s great to see The Walled Garden’s hanging baskets on display at customer’s homes. This customer is extremely happy with the basket and will be providing the team with a summer update when the baskets are fully blossomed.
A happy customer’s lovely hanging baskets!
Beautiful hanging baskets handmade at The Walled Garden.
If you would like to purchase one of the hanging baskets please call into The Walled Garden and speak to a member of the team. For more information, click here to view the flyer.
Visit The Walled Garden’s Facebook page to find out more information about the beautiful gardens.
– https://www.facebook.com/TheWalledGarden/
Pets Corner in Astley Park, Chorley
There is lots of wonderful wildlife around Astley Park in Chorley. As well as the resident animals at Pets Corner, there is a number of bird boxes around Pets Corner to encourage nesting.
A Great tit has been spotted nesting in one of the bird boxes. The team have managed to capture an image of the bird returning to the bird box.
The Great tit returning to it’s bird box, what a beautiful creature.
Visit Pets Corner’s Facebook page for more information about their resident animals and local wildlife.
– https://www.facebook.com/PetsCornerChorley/
Roccoco
Last week, the team from Roccoco were extremely busy providing a High Tea Buffet for a wedding at the Royal Umpire in Croston.
The buffet included a mixture of delicious cakes and tart-lets for 60 guests. In the photos you can see the hard work that the team put in to make sure these tasty treats were all perfect and ready for collection. You can also see the cakes and tart-lets on display at the wedding.
An amazing example of team work to get the cakes ready for collection.
The wonderful display of delicious cakes and tart-lets at the wedding.
It was great to see all the team working together and helping each other out to make sure that the order was completed in time.
Visit Roccoco’s Facebook page to see their weekly specials and delicious dishes.
– https://www.facebook.com/RoccocoLeyland/
Crafty Uniforms
James and Tina from Crafty Uniforms provided an amazing free craft session for groups of children at LivingWaters Church on Friday 2nd June. They helped everyone make dolls out of wooden pegs and spoons along with other crafty items.
James and Tina working hard on their wooden dolls.
Some of the wooden dolls made at the craft session.
Crafty Uniforms’ next free craft session will be held during the school summer holidays. The team can’t wait to see what creative crafts everyone can make!
Visit Crafty Uniforms Facebook page to find out when their next free craft session is.
– https://www.facebook.com/CraftyUniforms/
Hands on Gardening
The Hands on Gardening team have come across a variety of beautiful summer flowers in their customer’s gardens over the past couple of weeks. This time of year, gardens are full of amazing flowers and plants that are thriving with lovely colours.
Look at the size of this Poppy!
Visit Hands on Gardening’s Facebook page for handy summer gardening tips and tricks.
– https://www.facebook.com/HandsOnGardening/
Heaton Street Gardening
Now that summer has begun, the Heaton Street Gardening team have been working hard organising and tidying up customer’s gardens ready for them to enjoy the summer weather.
The team began working on a customer’s flower bed last week, it will be great to see what amazing flowers blossom in the flower bed throughout the summer.
The flower bed the team have been working on.
If your garden needs some TLC and you want it to be ready for the summer weather, make sure you get in touch with the Heaton Street Gardening team on 07834 480 367.
Visit Heaton Street Gardening’s Facebook page for updates on their recent garden maintenance jobs.
– https://www.facebook.com/HeatonStreetGardening/
Hands on Recycling
The team from Hands on Recycling are always dealing with a large amount of waste cardboard and paper on their recycling collections. All of the recycling is collected at the end of the week and then taken to a recycling plant where everything is processed to live its life again.
Cardboard recycling life cycle.
Did you know that each tonne of recycled paper and cardboard will save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic meters of landfill space, 4000 KW of energy and 7000 gallons of water?
Visit Hands on Recycling’s Facebook page for interesting recycling facts.
– https://www.facebook.com/HandsOnRecycling/