Shaw Trust Horticulture - Stanmore

Services for people with various kinds of disabilities or medical conditions, who live in the surrounding boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet. Clients from further afield may also be served.

Three services are provided:

• Alternative to day care. Activities include: socialising, horticulture, experience of a working plant nursery which can lead to work experience or employment. This service can be purchased via a Direct Payment.
• Skills for Working Life. Free 45-week course, starting every August, which is a good stepping stone to NVQ Level 1 in Horticulture. It is a practical qualification, suitable for readers or non-readers, aged 18-65 from any borough, who are available for 17 hours per week, Monday-Friday.
• Intermediate Labour Market and Permitted Work. 51-week paid work placements for disabled and disadvantaged residents of Harrow and Brent. Placements can be in garden maintenance, nursery work or retail shop work. Employees on this scheme can take courses in horticulture, basic skills, literacy, numeracy, travel training, or IT. They can also access Shaw Trust's Workstep or Job Broking programmes.

Other services:

• Retail shop - small farm shop open to the public, selling bedding plants, perennials, vegetables, herbs and unusual plants.
• Garden maintenance - pan-London garden maintenance service in collaboration with other Shaw Trust Horticulture projects.

Project partners: London boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet; Harrow Mencap, Norwood Ravenswood, Pinner Association, William Sutton Housing Association, Stanmore Lodge, Reeverly Lodge.

Project funders: London Development Agency, Harrow College, London boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet.

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