All our activities with our volunteers lead to our aim of turning out confident self assured individuals with the aim to be the best they can be wherever the future may take them. John Spiteri our mentor set up a collborative arrangement with a social enterprise company who operate locally called Eco-collect. This company picks up garden waste throughout the Borders and treats that waste turning it into compost. The arrangement we have with them allows us to nominate a volunteer considered to be on the brink of paid employment to function as a real world employee with feedback coming back as to how the individual performed. This taste of real life generates valuable income which helps to keep the project running and gives the nominated volunteer a training allowance which is always welcome.
In a similar vein we carry out outside work which can include gardening work such as clearing a garden of weeds ready for further work. We also take on regular maintainance including hedge trimming, grass cutting, fence erection ,shed painting, slab laying even non structural wall pointing. All this work is carried out at a minimal price and preference is given to householders deemed to be in need. If you have a job you think might fit our requirements give us a call or mail (details on contact page) or why not drop in to the centre and see us at work, we are always pleased to see people, you might even get a coffee!