There are ten organisations in the STEnG partnership. They are:

Branching Out

27 Grange Lane
Littleport
Ely, CB6 1HW
Tel: 01353 863221
Email: susan@branchingoutuk.net

Offers work based training opportunities including making garden furniture & village notice boards, growing fruit and vegetables, making hot lunches, working in our charity shops, and a variety of recycling activities from cans to Christmas trees.

To find out more about Branching Out, visit its website by clicking here www.branchingoutuk.net

Burwell Community Print Centre

The Causeway
Burwell
Cambridgeshire, CB25 0DX
Tel: 01638 613102
Email: info@burwellprint.co.uk

Supports people with learning disabilities to gain work experience and training in our very busy Print Room and Design Centre. We produce customer work using a range of printing and print finishing machines such as digital copier, laminator, booklet-maker. In 2008 we extended our business services to include promotional and personalised items such as T-Shirts, mugs, calendars, bags and large format printing, and as a result of this we have been able to increase the accredited training that we can provide.

To find out more about Burwell Community Print Centre, visit its website by clicking here www.burwellprint.co.uk

Cambridge Mencap

Edmund House
9 Church Lane
Fulbourn
Cambridge, CB21 5EP
Tel: 01223 883147
Email: sabrina@cambridgemencap.co.uk

Offers a variety of services for Children, Young People and Adults who have learning disabilities across Cambridgeshire. Training courses include Catering & Hospitality at St. John’s and Girton College Cambridge. Cambridge Mencap also offers volunteering and work experience opportunities in gardening, as well as catering at Fare Shares Café.

Darwin Nurseries

5 Quy Water
Newmarket Road
Cambridge, CB1 9AT
Tel: 01223 293911
Email: Christine.millar@cambsmh.nhs.uk

Is a horticultural centre providing vocational training and work experience in horticulture, retail & animal husbandry. People are able to be involved in all aspects of growing plants and vegetables and selling them to the public from its farm shop and greenhouses.

FACET

Marwick Centre
21 Marwick Road
March
Cambridgeshire, PE15 8PH
Tel: 01354 655080
Email: lindaing@waitrose.com

helps people to engage in activities which enable them to become more integrated with the rest of the community. FACET delivers training in retail, catering, practical woodwork, horticulture, art & design, independent living skills, basic skills, job clubs and job seeking skills.

Hope Social Enterprises

Head Office Brook House
Ouse Walk
Huntingdon
PE29 3QW
Tel: 01354 658732
Email: Ireland@luminus.org.uk

Is a social enterprise that provides work experience to vulnerable adults to help prepare them for the world of work. It has a number of centres with the largest being in March. People can gain work experience in gardening, retail, furniture repairs, deliveries and collections and administration. Hope currently works with Homeless clients from the Ferry Project in Wisbech, individuals with mild mental health problems and long term unemployed clients on new deal. Hope provides gardening services to the general public as well as selling second hand furniture.

Opportunities Without Limits (OWL)

Sawston Village College
New Road
Sawston
Cambridge, CB22 3BP
Tel: 01223 835329
Email: gill.riley@owlgroup.org.uk

Provides a wide range of work based and vocational training activities – including a community café, a hot meals service for disabled and elderly infirm, a gardening project with greenhouses and nursery beds, a DIY/community maintenance team and a large scale bicycle recycling project with supported employment opportunities.

Papworth Trust

Information Helpdesk: 0800 952 5000
Email: employment@papworth.org.uk

The Papworth Trust’s mission is for disabled people to have equality, choice and independence, each year helping over 10,000 disabled people through a wide range of services.

By focussing on increasing an individual’s opportunity to learn we are able to expand their ambitions and realise their potential. We have a number of centres based throughout the East of England delivering a range of opportunities, to help people learn to live independently as well as helping them work towards qualifications.

We also work with people to find and keep a job, including work experience, voluntary work and supported employment programmes.

The Prospects Trust

Snakehall Farm
Reach
Cambridge, CB25 0HZ
Tel: 01638 741551
Email: theprospectstrust@tiscali.co.uk

Delivers work experience, accredited training and supported employment opportunities in horticulture and organic market gardening.  Based on an 18 acre Soil Association approved farm and operating a professional garden maintenance service, it offers a stimulating and productive workplace where everyone participates as fully as possible.

Red2Green

Harvey’s Barn
Park End
Swaffham Bulbeck
Cambridge, CB25 0NA
Tel: 01223 811662
Email: info@red2green.org

Supports people, from the age of 14, who have a wide range of disabilities, mental health problems and social communication disorders. We provide a rich, varied and innovative programme of educational and work opportunities for people in Cambridgeshire. Red2Green’s main learning centre is in Swaffham Bulbeck, with projects in Bottisham, Cambridge and in the community.

Rowan Humberstone

40 Humberstone Road
Cambridge, CB4 1JG
Tel: 01223 566027
Email: des@rowanhumberstone.co.uk

Provides accredited training and work experience, enabling people with learning difficulties to work alongside skilled artists and crafts people producing high quality artwork in wood, ceramics and painted glass in our purpose built workshops in Cambridge.

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.