The Hub gets busy for Christmas

A NOT-FOR-PROFIT enterprise in Yeovil will be able to increase product production in time for Christmas after having a new wall fitted in its workshop.

The workshop, belonging to The Hub -Yeovil, is an area used to give young people and adults with additional support needs, the opportunity to develop new skills for living and working.

In the long term it aims to enhance their employability skills and independence. In the workshop trainees make bespoke, handmade gifts, toiletries and decorations.

Due to an uninsulated and ill-fitting door, a huge amount of money was needed to heat the workshop in winter, and The Hub chief executive, Clive Tuck, was having to limit the amount of time that trainees could spend there.

Yarlington Housing Group and Bradfords worked in partnership with The Hub to block the doorway, creating a warmer, safer environment allowing them to move forward with their projects and closer to the ambition of opening up a ‘Shafé’- a shop/café.

 “Given the nature of the project we were more than happy to contribute the materials for this project,” said Nathan Cassidy, commercial manager at Bradfords.

Yarlington Housing Group provided the labour free of charge. Mason Kelvin Adams, who carried out the work, said: “It is nice to know you are helping a good cause.”

Clive added: “The kind donation from Bradford’s has given us a magnificent head start in getting the work done. And the labour that has been supplied by Yarlington has been fantastic. The guys have been such quick workers.”

PHOTO: Pictured, back row, are Richard Prewer, Kelvin Adams, Steve Ritchie of Yarlington Property Management, Clive Tuck of The Hub, and Nathan Cassidy of Bradfords and, front row, are Jodi O'Dwyer, Sarah Dyer, Tara Wood and Donna Osmond of The Hub.

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