Category: Our Journey

Huge congratulations to Ryan who completed his Food Health and Hygiene course at The Usual Place. He has been working on this with Mentors Kat, Thomas and Fiona and it was great to see him presented with his certificate as...

Congratulations to Meishan and Eden for completing our S3 Work Experience Programme today. This is open to all schools. They were each presented with a certificate by Alana and Liam, and were congratulated by Mentors and other team members as...

Leah has two different roles with us here at The Usual Place. Today she is training in our cafe and learning the different aspects of customer service with Mentor Tina. Leah also works one day a week as an Information...

Meet Harry, one of two new Information Interns at The Usual Place. You may recognise Harry as he completed his training here in our cafe and has been a very engaged member of our team over the past year or...

Introducing our new intern – Leah! Leah is one of two new Information Interns here at The Usual Place. She and Harry will be with us one day a week for the next 12 months to develop their information and...

Congratulations to Emma, who completed her training with us last week. Emma has been on the Young People’s Training Programme since the end of May, and, after trying out both Front of House and Kitchen, Emma chose to do her...

It’s always a bittersweet moment when we have to say goodbye when a young person has completed their training and is ready to move on – we are going to miss Dan! He’s been a great part of our team,...

Another young person is moving on into the world of work from The Usual Place to Kirkcudbright Bay Hotel. Teigan is enjoying being part of a new team serving food and drink during lunchtime service at this lovely family run...