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.
Roccoco
Pop in to Roccoco and celebrate with their American style pancakes served with blueberry compote, fruit, maple syrup and melted butter for just £4.25!
To celebrate the beginning of spring, Roccoco will have a delicious spring specials menu each week for the next 12 weeks. The menu will include the choice of a warm salad, a hot main and a dessert. The first week will be Grilled Halloumi Salad for £6.25, a Beef and Vegetable Casserole with dumplings for £6.25 and a Rhubarb Spice Cake with custard for £3.50.
Emily and her mum joined in a pasta making session along with Jamie, Tom and Chris on Thursday 14th March. The team then enjoyed the pasta for their lunch later on!
Click here to view Roccoco’s Facebook Page
Crafty Uniforms
Our team were have been very busy recently preparing craft activities for the toddler group at Chorley Methodist Church. The group made sun catchers by using two paper plates, with a circle removed from the middle, and a sheet of plastic glued in between the two plates! The toddlers glued and stuck squares of brightly coloured tissue all over to create a beautiful effect, which looked amazing when held up to the sunshine!
Thank you to all of the team at Crafty Uniforms who helped with preparation and to Lee, Emily and Karen for helping to deliver the session.
Thank you to everyone who has donated throughout February to help stock The Crafty Uniforms shop which in turn helps the people we support. They received over 50 single items, boxes and bags kindly donated this month!
The team at Crafty Uniforms would like to say a special thanks to Irene Heaps who has consistently been donating to our shop, but we have somehow missed recording her kindness over the last month or two.
The Crafty Uniforms team have had lots of fun today practicing their sewing skills using the middles of paper plates with holes punched around, to create a sewing template. Don’t their finished results look amazing? We love how colourful they all are!
At Crafty Uniforms there are so many different activities to get involved with! Pop in and visit the team to see what they’re up to this week; they are open 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday!
The amazing team at Crafty have been tidying their stock and found some scarf pins that have been hiding away at the back of our racks.
They now have them proudly on show and here is one being displayed on a scarf made my one of the amazing team members at Crafty! The scarf pics are on sale for just 75p to £1 and we are sure you’ll agree they are a bargain! Why not pop in to the shop and see what else the team have to offer!
One of Crafty Uniforms’ lovely customers regularly buys lots of their fabric strips, zips and other items to help her craft beautiful rucksacks made with love. This week she brought one in to show the team, along with a purse she had also made herself!
Don’t they look fabulous!
Click here to view Crafty Uniform’s Facebook Page.
Pets Corner
Pets’ Corner’s lovely Liquorice has been enjoying relaxing in the guinea pigs’ hay basket! If you’re at Astley Park this week call in and say hello, they open every day between 10am and 3:30pm!
Milly the chicken has been playing hide and seek this week. Pop along this weekend to see if you find her in any odd places!
Rebecca, one of the fabulous team members at Pets Corner, giving their rabbits Digby and Shadow Junior some TLC.
Click here to view Pets’ Corners
The Walled Garden
Spring has arrived and it’s time to cut back the herbaceous perennial that have decorated the garden with their seed heads. Dan is shown here cutting back Sedum spectabile, which will help maintain its shape!
Anthony, one of The Walled Garden’s amazing team members, has been sieving compost ready for sowing seeds! They have been busy growing vegetables and ornamental flowers from seed.
Click here to view The Walled Garden’s Facebook page
Heaton Street
With spring getting closer, our team have started to plant a mixture of bedding plants at Baxi. Heaton Street’s newest team member, Martin, has enjoyed working on this project and is looking forward to developing more planting ideas around the site!
The team at Heaton Street have been busy visiting their regular customers recently. It has been lovely to see the early spring flowering cherry trees in full flower despite the strong winds we have had.
Click here to view Heaton Street’s Facebook Page
Hands on Gardening
The team at Hands on Gardening will soon be starting their regular customer rounds again in spring and have been busy visiting lots of potential customers! The team have also had to opportunity to help out at The Walled Garden by being part of the restoration of the glass frames for the melon pit.
Although the weather has been very cold and windy, it was lovely for the Hands on Gardening team to see Azaleas and Hellebores in full flower.
Click here to view Hands on Gardening’s Facebook page.