The Brothers of Charity Services have various Social Enterprises for adults with learning disabilities; services are designed to support people to develop skills with confidence in a supportive working environment whilst offering services in the local community.
The social enterprises carryout 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.
Crafty Uniforms
Our amazing team recently supported the delivery of a Community Craft Session for the Toddler group at Chorley Methodist Church. Everyone had a fabulously sticky and glittery time creating these awesome Chinese Lanterns to celebrate Chinese New Year. This year it’s the Year of the Pig!
Thanks to all our fabulous team at Crafty Uniforms especially Joanne, Emily and Lee.
Our wonderful team of artful crafters have been exceptionally busy! They’ve been preparing for our forthcoming Community Craft sessions as well as for our next window display. They’ve also been using an arts and crafts technique, decoupage, to decorate stock boxes. The team have enjoyed some creative activities and all have had a wonderful time!
Our Crafty Team have been busy preparing our Valentine’s window display which is brimming over with LOVE. We recently shared the first two hearts; the 1st one says ‘We’ and the 2nd says ‘Love’. We asked you to guess what the 3rd word would be. We had the following guesses: ‘We Love… Chorley, You, Love, People, Everyone’, but the nearest guess to the word on our heart was ‘Pre-owned’, which was posted by Tracey Robinson, whose guess was very similar to the word we chose, ‘Pre-loved’! Well done everyone for all your comments, it was great fun seeing all the suggestions coming in.
This month we’ve had to disappoint several of our customers who were asking for school uniforms as unfortunately our shelves were bare. We hope that you might be able to help! 😃
We would greatly appreciate pre-loved donations of the following items:
– Duke Street School uniforms, especially sweatshirts
– Scouts/Cubs sweatshirts
– St. Michael’s skirts & jumpers
We would be really grateful if any of our lovely customers could help us fill our shelves with any of the above pre-loved items! You can drop off donations from Monday to Friday at our shop; 58 Pall Mall, Chorley. Thank you!
Our fabulous team members, Emma, Claire, Lee and Emily supported by Karen, delivered two sessions last week around the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ at Buttermere Toddler Group and Chorley Methodist Church’s Toddler group. The children had a great time getting crafty, and a little bit messy, whilst colouring in a scene from the story. Both sessions were rounded off with ‘story time’. The children loved listening to the story, especially the age old
phrase…”Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m The Gingerbread Man”!
Last week to celebrate Valentine’s Day, our fabulous team were engaged in several love-filled activities including a card making session at Home Start. The team were also busy making cards for their own loved ones in our craft room; fun and laughter resounded whilst everyone got stuck in!
As well as our craft session, our team had a fun outing in to Chorley to spread the Valentine’s Day cheer by handing out love hearts adorned with positive messages. Our team received lots of smiles in response to our love filled gestures; let’s hope many of you can feel the love too!
Click here to view Crafty Uniforms Facebook page
Roccoco
Thank You to everybody who came to our recruitment day at Roccoco in #Leyland, we met lots of great people!
If you missed our open day and you are interested in working with us, get in touch with John, our Recruitment Specialist by calling 07919 476958!
Pop in this week and enjoy a sweet treat with a cup of coffee! Today we had coffee Renoir pastries filled with vanilla custard, fresh cream, topped with coffee icing!
Pop in to Roccoco this week and try our new sweet mincemeat crumble cake for only £2.
Click here to view Roccoco’s facebook page
Pets Corner
The Wednesday group at Pets Corner in Chorley have been celebrating Robert’s 45th birthday today! Happy Birthday Robert!
We’ve had a very kind donation of a new chicken coop for our lucky bantams! Jennifer and Robert put in a lot of hard work to build the coop and get it ready in time for the bantams’ bedtime.
Call into Pets Corner this weekend and see their new, very kindly donated Chicken Coop, they’re open 10am-3:30pm!
Click here to view Pets’ Corner facebook page
Heaton Street
Our teams will be helping with the running of free Train Workshops at South Ribble Pensioners Association in Bamber Bridge on Tuesday 19th February! The workshops are filling up fast so please get in touch with Kelly on 07701 369 525 to book your place.
Click here to view Heaton Street’s facebook page