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Early Enablement Officer Fiona Talks To Lewis About Food, Health and Hygiene

12/02/2025

Liam is taking some time out of the kitchen this afternoon to work with Early Enablement Officer, Fiona on Food Safety and Hygiene. It is so important, not only to follow procedures, but to understand the reasons why they are...

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Teigan Is Completing Her Food, Health and Hygiene Course

07/01/2025

Teigan is focussing on food hygiene today with Early Enablement Officer, Val. This is a vital part of the overall learning and development of all young people on our various placements and training courses. Taking time to work on the...

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A volunteer with brown hair tied up in a bun standing centre-left of the photo. She is surrounded by staff and other volunteers. One of the other volunteers is holding a certificate for her. They are all looking into the camera and smiling.

Kira Has Completed Her Placement

28/10/2024

Kira finished her placement with us a couple of weeks ago. Everyone at The Usual Place was there when she was presented with her certificate. Kira has been a great part of the team, a very hard worker giving her...

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Luke is a Lived Experience Trainer and continues to help us out

09/10/2024

Luke is a Lived Experience Trainer who spends most of his time training businesses and organisations in Autism Awareness. He is also part of the team who delivers our Good Connections for Autistic Adults events across the region. Before taking...

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Lewis lands his first job Sept 2024

24/09/2024

We’re celebrating!!! Everyone is delighted that SVQ Trainee, Lewis Pryde has successfully got his first job!!! He will be working part time at The Cairndale Hotel & Spa. Lewis is a fabulous trainee here at The Usual Place where he...

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Luke is a Lived Experience Trainer and used to be a Trainee

16/09/2024

Luke works for Inspired Community Enterprise Trust (aka The Usual Place) as a Lived Experience Trainer. Most of his time is spent travelling out to businesses and organisations, or in our meeting rooms, where he delivers training in Autism Awareness...

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A young woman and young man wearing black serving gloves stand on either side of a table concentrating hard and setting out the cutlery.

David, Katie and Ryan prepare for Fine Dining Afternoon July 2024

23/07/2024

***Fine Dining Afternoon Update*** David, Katie and Ryan are all very familiar with polishing cutlery and providing accurate table service in our cafe, and they are bringing all their concentration and attention to detail to learning how to set tables...

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A volunteer with glasses and a bow stood centre-right in the picture wearing The Usual Place uniform. Stood next to her centre-left in the picture is another volunteer presenting a certificate for food, health and hygiene to her. They are both looking into the camera and smiling.

Georgie Completes Her Food, Health and Hygiene Course

19/07/2024

Georgie completed her food, health and hygiene course on, Friday 12th July, she was super happy about this. Georgie worked very hard on doing her food, health and hygiene course using her listening skills and team work. Georgie now has...

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Young People Meet Election Candidates June 2024

03/07/2024

Young people invite general election candidates to answer questions at The Usual Place. June 2024

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Young man in red tshirt and black 1610 apron peels onions in kitchen

Jack, Lewis and Shania gain Fine Dining Experience in Top Scottish Kitchen July 2024

02/07/2024

Dine and Empower! We often share celebratory moments here on Facebook when young people create their fantastic cakes and bakes. So you will be used to seeing photos of Jack and Shania working in the kitchen at The Usual Place...