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Reports | Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 11:48
We’re so grateful for our wonderful garden in Tooting that has helped us ease out of lockdown. Our 2.5 acre site in the grounds of Springfield Hospital has enabled us to provide face-to-face sessions for our students in a beautiful open...
Reports | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 16:20
We’re welcoming some students back, both at our garden site in Tooting and our main building in Clapham Junction. This has been carefully planned with strict risk assessments and procedures in place to ensure the safety of our students and...
Reports | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 15:03
We started virtual cooking sessions on Zoom with Kenny, our chef tutor, on Friday afternoons earlier in lockdown. We started out with four students attending but now regularly host sessions with up to 12 students, where are least eight participate...
Reports | Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 13:54
The current health crisis is having an impact on everybody’s lives, but the impact is especially acute for those with additional support needs and their parents and carers. Many support networks have been disrupted leading to uncertainty, fear and...
Students taking part in a Zoom session
Reports | Monday, April 27, 2020 - 16:42
The closure of our sites means we’re finding new ways to teach and students are trying out new ways to learn. Like many organisations at present, we’ve turned to Zoom to interact with each other and staff and students are loving it! This is helping...
Reports | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 17:21
Everyone is aware of the increasingly rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are extremely concerned for the wellbeing of everyone involved with Share. We were phasing the inevitable closure of Share sites so as to give families and...
Reports | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 16:10
We’ve been running our social inclusion initiative Go Anywhere Do Anything for six years providing trips out for disabled people to enjoy fun and rewarding experiences. The feedback from members taking part and the network of volunteers who support...
Tesco bags of help
Reports | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 14:53
Share’s Go Anywhere Do Anything initiative is one of three projects that Tesco is supporting in their ‘Bags of Help’ scheme where money raised from the carrier bag charge funds local causes. From Wednesday 1 April 2020 to Tuesday 30 June 2020...
Reports | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 14:20
We currently run a creative textiles project at Share for people with learning disabilities and autism. Through this project, people create sustainable fashion and household items, with materials sourced from the overstock of shops and fabric...
Visiting Autotrader
Reports | Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 14:10
My Community and Me is a class designed to take learning out into the community with an emphasis on practical skills. Recently the focus has been on technology covering a range of skills that students can use to support day to day activities and...