Today’s Advent Calendar window opens for Teamwork Trust who are a charity and social enterprise who are celebrating 40 years of supporting autistic adults, people with learning disabilities and individuals with mental health needs in North Northamptonshire.
The disabled community was particularly hard hit by the Covid lockdowns and Teamwork want to find a way to get this community to make new friends, stop people feeling lonely, but also to talk a lot, walk a lot or craft a lot. At Teamwork Trust, they want to learn and share ways to cope and to enjoy being together.
Teamwork Trust helps vulnerable adults to achieve their goals. They care and are passionate about ensuring that everyone has access to the same chances, choices and opportunities. They embrace and celebrate individual needs and abilities. Service users help to steer and plan everything they do.
Their three centres, based in Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough, are friendly, safe and supportive places in which service users make new friends, access education and employment experiences, and take part in on and off-site activities and classes. They have a packed programme of living and learning projects, and activities, as well as wellbeing and counselling programmes.
They run ‘factory floor’ facilities from their three centres providing a range of assembling, reworking, finishing, labelling, packing and fulfilment services, to offer reliable commercial outsourcing service offers a cost-effective and efficient option for businesses, while giving adults with mental health needs, learning and physical disabilities valuable vocational experience at the same time.
In Wellingborough they do lots of assembly jobs, including making badges for companies, community groups and events. Customers include Wellie Wombles and events include the Waendel Walk! They are also making blankets for the homeless out of crisp packets, and you can donate your crisp packets either directly or at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall. The Wellingborough centre is based at:
Teamwork Trust
38A Oxford Street
Wellingborough
Northamptonshire
NN8 4JG
Tel 01933 442066
Want to help? Or need to join them? They need volunteers and want to help you if you are feeling lonely. Do join them!