The first was Gro-Organic which is an organisation that provides job opportunities for people with disabilities and complex mental health difficulties through gardening skills training.
The second was the Colebridge Trust that provides people with learning difficulties and people who are out of work for a long time with car part manufacturing jobs.
Both were fantastic examples of how investing in employment opportunities for people brings social and economic value. Skills training of this type presents the individuals concerned with genuine long term opportunities for paid employment to allow them to fully participate in society. This kind of social inclusion is not only humbling and right, but it also has economic value with the saved costs associated with isolation and societal exclusion.
