Dress to Impress is a small local Fancy Dress Retailer in Ashford High Street. It is a family run business with only two members of staff; a mother and a daughter. Over the past year Dress to Impress have been working with our EmployAbility team. They have been incredibly supportive by offering work experience to…
This month, we interviewed Dermot for our internal newsletter. Dermot is a customer of EmployAbility, and his Employment Support Specialist supported him to land his dream job working at Chessington World of Adventures Resort! Here is what Dermot told us about himself: What are your favourite hobbies or interests? I love dancing, practicing yoga and…
Surrey Choices are an employer required by law to carry out Gender Pay Gap Reporting under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017. The challenge across Great Britain is to eliminate any gender pay inequality: as an equal opportunities employer, Surrey Choices fully supports this initiative.
Customers and staff from The Farnham Community Group, Surrey Choices and The Woodlarks Centre have joined forces to help the homeless in their local community. The idea originated from a member of the Farnham Community Group, Yvonne. Yvonne has a mild learning disability and is supported by the group to gain independence and develop new…
Hi, my name is Oliver Stevens, I have been undertaking a six week work placement with the Marketing and Communications team at Surrey Choices through the help of EmployAbility and my Employment Support Specialist David Man. I was really keen to find more work experience in Marketing as I really enjoy creating and editing videos,…
The Growth Team is just one of five vocational projects we offer to our customers at Surrey Choices. The Growth Team provide our customers with a fantastic opportunity to gain gardening work experience, as well as providing customers with training and support to carry out practical gardening tasks which help preserve the Surrey countryside and public…
We had the pleasure of sitting down with our Shared Lives Manager, Donna Willson this month to find out a bit more about her outside of work. Here is what Donna had to say: Can you tell us a fact we might not know about you already? I have a slight obsession with VW Camper…
Today, Monday 28 January 2019, we celebrate Data Protection Day 2019! What is Data Protection, and why is Data Protection Day so important? Data Protection is the way in which information is safeguarded from being lost, stolen or corrupted. The Data Protection Act (DPA) is a law designed to protect personal data stored on computers or…
Jacob Roger is a student at East Surrey College and through the help of EmployAbility, is completing his Supported Internship Programme at The Computer Shop, Merstham. He works every Tuesday and Wednesday 10.00am – 3.00pm during term time. Jacob is on the Autistic Spectrum and has Tourette’s Syndrome, Dyspraxia, ADHD and nystagmus (rapid involuntary movements…
Surrey Choices is proud to announce that we are now a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. What is Disability Confident? The Disability Confident scheme supports and encourages businesses to make the most of the talents that disabled people can bring into the workplace. This new standard is similar to the old ‘two ticks’ system, but asks employers…
