all together edinburgh
Edinburgh
All Together Edinburgh is a social enterprise with charitable status. It was set
up in 2010 after recognising that there were very few training opportunities for
people with learning disabilities to learn skills that would help them work
within the retail/charity retailing sector or customer facing environment. We
wanted to create more training and employment opportunities by delivering a
training programme that would not only improve employability skills, confidence
and self-esteem, but deliver an accredited, person-centred course that resulted
in a recognised qualification. We decided that the training would be best
delivered in a charity shop and we opened our first shop in June, 2011. The
charity shop is an ideal practical setting to learn an array of skills relevant
to the retail field. It also gives the trainee an opportunity to interact with
the public and to increase awareness of people with learning disabilities. This
is a unique enterprise and is the first of it’s kind in Scotland!