Our latest customer spotlight in our newsletter featured Gary who is a customer at our Bletchingley Activity Centre. Gary has hugely grown in confidence with the help of his friends and key work at Surrey Choices. Here is what Gary told us about himself: What are your favourite hobbies or interests? Running Solving puzzles Completing…
Steven is a customer who enjoys attending one of our Office Projects which is a vocational project to enable customers to improve their confidence, gain independence and learn new skills to prepare for the world of work. We wanted to find out a bit more about Steven and and share his story whilst we celebrate…
Jack is a customer from the Surrey Choices Growth Team, who preserve the wonderful Surrey countryside and many public spaces, working with lots of people on different projects. Whilst we are celebrating #NationalAutismAwarenessWeek, we had a chat with Jack about Autism and his life to find out a little bit more about him: How has…
Volunteering can be a great way to give back to your community. We had a lovely compliment for the excellent support EmployAbility has given to a customer to allow them to become a “Digital Buddy” at his local library. This is the exactly the sort of thing people mean when they talk about social value, people supporting…
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…
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,…
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…
