Many of our service users have previously had negative experiences of mainstream educational services- so our courses try to be as user friendly as possible. We are at present half way through a project funded by the Southwest Foundation from whom we received a community grant.With this money we are providing a series of creative taster courses designed to raise our service users self esteem and confidence. Thus far this project entitled 'More than just Surviving' has run the following courses: Yoga Mosaics Dates:Monday April 12th, 19th, & 26,May 10th & 17th Place: The Phoenix Project, King Street, Glastonbury Time:12-2.30 A Free 5 week Course. No experience needed-Just enthusiasm,commitment and the ability to be imaginatively playful-A tutor will be available to give loose guidance A big thank you to the Southwest Foundation for allowing us supporting this project ALSO we are running: First aid at work An intensive four day certified course-aimed at teaching people first aid to utilise whist working on festival sites. Dates 13th 14th 20th 21st April 2010 Places must be secured. Basic Food Hygiene Wednesday 5th May 2010 Stewarding An introduction to elements of stewarding e.g. radio protocols etc to give people confidence to work at festivals utilising these skills Still to come HOW TO BE SAFE AND COMFORTABLE IN A LIVE IN VEHICLE watch this space A big thankyou to the NLDC for funding these courses
Food based courses and opportunity's with Max. Max has worked in catering for over 15 years, as a chef and catering manger and has been working as a volunteer, cooking the food, at the drop-in for over a year. Recently max has received funding from the 'The Trust House Charitable Foundation' to run a series of food based courses
These include:
6-week food preparation and hygiene. Take part in the creation of the menu for the drop-in and pick up on some great techniques, tips and recipes. Also complete the basic food hygiene, certificate. A great opportunity to increase your confidence in the kitchen. Outdoors one pot cooking. This course will focus on cooking one pot meals on open fires. We will explore various styles of cooking look at the best cooking fires and cooking equipment. We will also be looking at producing a fireside cookbook. The R.B.T Veg patch
We will be trying to start a client based veg -growing scheme in the local area. We are currently looking for individuals and land who are interested in committing to vegetable growing scheme. Many thanks to the The Trust House Charitable Foundation' for helping to create these fantastic opportunity's Please ring Angelique the Training and Skills project worker @ the Trust for any more information or to book on any of the courses.
We try to accommodate some of the diverse training needs of our community and our service users by providing a variable range of free courses - funding permitting. We believe that this is an essential part of the work at the trust.
Knitting & Crochet
Well Being Day
