Darlington Local Offer

DARLINGTON LOCAL OFFER

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1. What does your service do?

Endeavour Woodcrafts is a day service for adults and young people over 18, with learning disabilities and mental health issues. We provide training and education in woodwork and crafts. We design, produce and sell handmade quality wooden items. We aim to provide a safe and happy environment for everyone to work and develop, where people are encouraged to treat each other with dignity and respect.

We offer our day service to adults in the County Durham area, providing training in woodwork in a real manufacturing environment. Individuals are involved in all aspects of the manufacturing and selling process, learning new skills and also developing life and social skills.

The principles of co-operative such as equality, inclusion, the right to have a say, speaking up, sharing skills and ideas and being valued as an individual and part of a team are an integral part of the working day and the mainstay of the business. Through incorporating these principles along with on-going training and education for everyone within Endeavour, we aim to ensure that we deliver a positive, safe and welcoming environment for our service users to thrive as individuals.

We provide training and education in woodwork, painting, art and craft, furniture restoration, computing, cookery, social skills, independence skills and money skills. We also take part in group activities such as visits and day trips and also short stays away.

We can support individuals to access our service from half days through to 5 days per week. The service is tailored to suit the individual’s needs. Placements can be offered through a commissioned route via a care coordinator or through direct payments. We can provide the support on a long term basis or short term basis too.

2. Where is it located and what areas does it cover?

We are based at The Old Fire Station in Ferryhill, Co.Durham. Our placements are open to all adults and younger people who are within travelling distance to the service. We currently have service users from the County Durham area, including : Newton Aycliffe, Shildon, Sedgefield, Darlington, Bowes, Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor & Peterlee.

3. Who does your service provide for?

We support adults and younger people from 18-70.

We are a service that supports individuals with learning disabilities and mental health issues.

Service users should have a care coordinator assigned to them-this way we can work collectively to keep care plans accurate and provide a better support network for the person.

4. How can I start using the service?

Placement enquiries can be made through care coordinators, parents, carers or by contacting us directly. Most placements are by referral but we can offer private contracts too. Some individuals use direct payments to pay for the service.

Direct payment charges are as follows: £45 per day or £25 per half day.

5. How are decisions made about who can use your service?

We work with services users, care coordinators, parents and carers to ensure that placements are support packages are appropriate to the individual. We offer trial days and taster sessions to assess placement suitability.

6. How do you communicate with service users and how are they

involved in decision making/planning?

7. Is your service fully accessible?

The building currently has no wheelchair access or disabled toilet facilities- we are in the process of updating the building and will soon endeavour to provide these. We do have male and female toilet areas and we have kitchen facilities and a large tea room with seating area.

8. What training are the staff supporting children and young people with

SEND had or are having?

All support staff at EndeavourWoodcrafts have training in Health & Social Care to a minimum of level 3. Management are level 5 in Health and Social Care or equivalent. Two staff members are fully qualified teachers. All staff have Safeguarding Adults training along with H&S in the workplace. Support staff have Epilepsy Awareness, Autism Awareness, Communication & Listening Training and Mental Capacity Training. We have two fully qualified first aiders on site also.

9. Who can I contact for further information?

Any further information regarding the service can be found by contacting Louise Killip-01740 657676 or by dropping in for an informal chat at the address below:

Endeavour Woodcrafts CIC

The Old Fire Station

Darlington Road,

Ferryhill

Co.Durham

DL17 8EX

01740 657676