Skills to set you up for life

July 25, 2011 - PRLog -- For most people, growing up through life involves education and then a career. However for people who have learning difficulties, their path through life can be often varied and uncertain.

Now Essex Cares, the first Local Authority Trading Company to offer social care services, after being set up by Essex County Council in 2009, is helping people with learning disabilities through centres for social enterprise in Harlow and the rest of the county.

As well as providing facilities for social enterprises in Harlow it also, amongst other things, provides equipment to help people move around more easily.

Essex Cares offer all types of opportunities for training, from catering, hospitality and horticulture to painting, woodcraft and packaging.

The social enterprises also offer high quality, excellent value products and services on sale to the general public including conference facilities, cafes, garden centre goods, printing and copying. All income generated by the Social Enterprises is reinvested into the business, improving the opportunities available there.

Harlow social enterprises offers opportunities for adults with learning disabilities to gain work experience, skills and qualifications in a real business environment and all under one roof at Café Goodman in Station Approach, Harlow.

Training areas include catering, customer service, till usage, waiting tables, taking orders, stock management and conferencing. There is also a cafe open to the public as well as conference and external catering for sale.

The vocational way of learning is seen as an ideal tool to help people develop the essential skills for learning and enhance their opportunities for employment in Essex in the future.

With one centres in social enterprise Harlow has an advantage of everything being in one place, allowing an ease of learning for people wanting more than one skill for employment.

The courses are designed to reduce discrimination and promote equal opportunities within the community.

The focus of all the Harlow social enterprise services is about improving the lives of people who are living with learning difficulties and making them feel valued as part of the community.

For people wanting more information on services for social enterprises Harlow, visit the Essex Cares website by clicking on the link below or visit the centre for Harlow social enterprises at Café Goodman on Station Approach in the town.

For more information on Social Enterprise Harlow visit htttp://www.essexcares.org/

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