What or who is STEnG?

STEnG stands for Social Training Enterprise Group. STEnG is a group of nine organisations. All of them offer training, work-experience and or supported employment opportunities.

Branching Out

At Branching Out you can learn to work with wood, making garden furniture & village notice boards, for example. You can learn to grow fruit and vegetables and how to make hot lunches. You can work in our charity shops and learn about recycling items from cans to Christmas trees.

Burwell Community Print Centre

At Burwell Community Print Centre, you can work in a printing workshop. You can learn how to do colour copying, laminating and scanning. You also learn how to make newsletters, business stationery, art work and layout.

Cambridge Mencap

Cambridge Mencap offers training in cooking skills and catering at St. John’s College and Girton College, Cambridge. If you like catering, you could also work at Fare Shares Café. We also offer a Gardening Service, where you can learn about gardening and conservation work.

Darwin Nurseries

At Darwin Nurseries we train people in gardening, retail and looking after farm animals. You can learn how to grow plants and vegetables and work in our farm shop, selling the products we grow.

FACET

At FACET we train people in retail, catering, practical woodwork, gardening, art and design, independent living skills, basic skills, such as maths, writing and reading.

Hope Social Enterprises

At Hope Social Enterprise you can work in 5 different areas of work - grounds maintenance on gardens for the elderly, small scale farming on our 3 acres of allotments, house clearances for the Luminus Group, furniture repairs and reuse in our factory in March, and retail either in our factory in March or shop in Wisbech.

Opportunities Without Limits (OWL)

At OWL you can work in our community café or for our hot meals service for people who are disabled or elderly. We also have a gardening project with greenhouses and nursery beds, a DIY/community maintenance team and a large bicycle recycling project with supported employment opportunities.

The Papworth Trust

At the Prospect Trust you can receive training in horticulture and organic market gardening. You can work on our 18 acre farm, growing plants and vegetables, join our garden maintenance team, which does gardening work for people around Cambridge and/or learn retail skills in our farm shop.

The Prospects Trust

At the Prospect Trust you can receive training in horticulture and organic market gardening. You can work on our 18 acre farm, growing plants and vegetables, join our garden maintenance team, which does gardening work for people around Cambridge and/or learn retail skills in our farm shop.

Red2Green

At Red2Green there are eight different projects to choose from. At Reboot, for example, you can get unpaid work experience learning how to recycle computers, and you can take certificates. In other projects you can learn how to work in a shop, do gardening, arts and craft, independent living skills, maths, reading and writing.

Rowan Humberstone

At Rowan Humberstone you can receive training and work experience, in wood work, ceramics and glass painting. You work with skilled artists and crafts people to produce high quality work, which will be exhibited and sold.

The staff at STEnG organisations will speak with you about how you want to be supported. They will give you the help you want and need.

You will be helped to learn at your own pace.

Most of what you learn will be while you are working. Only a little bit of learning is done in the class room.

You can work towards a nationally recognised qualification.

Job clubs

Once you have been with us for a while, we can help you look for a different learning or work opportunity. All STEnG members have the possibility for you to join a job club, where you can learn skills related to looking for a job, applying for a job that interests you and how to keep this job.

And, very importantly: we believe in having fun at work!

How to join a course or project varies. Some courses can be joined at any time. But others are tied to education timetables so new learners may need to wait until the beginning of a new term or until September.

It is a good idea to speak directly to the STEnG organisation to find out more. Sometimes you can find the information needed on their websites.