ECL Bocking (Roundwood)

To complement our community based activities we offer a diverse centre-based activity programme designed to help you reach your goals. Activities are fun, while teaching valuable life skills, building your confidence, promoting greater independence, and developing your social skills.

Regular activities include:

• Sensory gardening
• Creating newsletters using IT
• Art using canvas - preparing for exhibitions
• Woodwork
• Money recognition and management workshops
• Mindfulness and wellbeing (including yoga, customer-led Thai Chi, walking)
• Basic IT
• Baking
• Shop and cook
• Quizzes to recap our learning
• Multicultural sessions (faith, world food, maps, flags, the world around us)
• Sports (12 week indoor and outdoor programme)
• Makaton sign language
• Hygiene (12 week programme)
• Studying mini beasts

We offer person-centred care for customers with a range of support needs from mild and moderate learning disabilities, to those with higher support needs and related health conditions, autism and communication difficulties.

Our staff receive specialist training to meet the needs of the customers they support. Training includes:

• Epilepsy and administering buccal
• Autism awareness
• Communication awareness
• Catheter training
• Dysphagia and IDDSI
• Fluid and Nutrition
• Food safety
• Makaton sign language
• Mental Capacity Act
• ASDAN

We are lucky to have in our team 'Horticulture Steve' and a trained kitchen assistant who is qualified to run a professional kitchen. These members of staff are able to train and support customers who are particularly interested in horticulture and catering.

We are certified to offer ASDAN training to customers who enjoy a more structured approach to learning and would like to achieve formal qualifications in recognition of their new skills.

If employment is one of your goals, we can help you to gain the skills and confidence you need at our day centre. We can then refer you to ECL's Inclusive Employment programme when you feel ready to be fully supported into a job.

At ECL we work with you to identify your goals and put together a tailored plan unique to you. One of our team will assess the level of support you need, and prices will be based on the recommendations, along with how many sessions you would like to attend.