Help Yourself Grow is a scheme designed to cater for the individual needs of its users with person-centered training. We will cater for whatever disability/disabilities an individual might have.
Our current training schemes, gardening and cooking, allow users to improve their abilities in a relaxed environment. They are able to go at their own pace and learn as they go along.
Help Yourself Grow gives users the opportunity to interact with and make friendships with their fellow peers. They can have fun and be social at the same time.
Completing the training allows users to receive commendation at the awards ceremony, as well as official accreditations. What they learn in training will benefit them long-term in their lives.
Help Yourself Grow had another great session with Anna Canning, a qualified medical herbalist from Floramedica. With her guidance, the cookery group made creams, scrubs, and lotions using sea salt and aromatherapy oils. These will now be used for hands and feet. We thank Anna Canning for coming along again and congratulate everyone on their great work.
Our Help Yourself Grow trainees made a visit to Cafe Ceramico in East Kilbride to take part in some arts and crafts activities – these included making photo frames and bird feeders. The trainees loved the experience, so thank you to Barbara and Simon from Cafe Ceramico providing it for them. Cafe Ceramico’s website is available here.
The Help Yourself Grow cookery and gardening trainee groups have both had the wonderful opportunity to work with Anna Canning. Anna Canning is a qualified medical herbalist from Floramedica and she came to the groups and delivered a series of individual workshops. These included workshops on herbal remedies and body care, willow crafts and wreaths, and willow lanterns. It was