The Old Vicarage - Activities

The Old Vicarage offers a range of activities to its residents with full support where required. Examples include:
 Work placements within local volunteer shops (Red Cross etc)
 Voluntary work placements e.g. at a local riding centre
 College based courses in various subjects including arts and crafts, beauty, cookery, horticulture, bricklaying and pottery

Additionally we provide day services within supported workshops including:
 Growing For All – Supported workshop within a Garden Centre producing plants and products for the Garden Centre to sell to the public
 Link Up – A supported workshop producing output of mailshots and bundled products for many large UK companies
 The Phoenix Centre Café – Provided catering and cafeteria facilities to the centres users

Within the home there are opportunities for services users to engage in:
 Gardening and small holding activities such as chicken keeping. We intend to provide polytunnels and raised beds in the near future as part of a green initiative which the service users have asked to be involved with
 Meal Planning and Cookery – Staff support service users to create nutritional menu’s, to shop for ingredients and then to cook the meals they have planned
 Computer Skills – Service users are supported to learn how to access information on the internet and engage in multimedia projects such as photo publishing

Staff and management are happy to investigate any opportunities that our service users and other interested parties would like to suggest.