Supporting young people, adults and their families since 1968.

Rachel’s favourite place in the world is the local charity shop.

Her goal was to volunteer, learning step-by-step how to do the work independently without the support of our staff.

Working to achieve her desired outcomes, the team at Dukeries helped Rachel to set small steps to help her progress in the right direction but also make sure that it wasn’t overwhelming.

Starting small, she began doing ten minutes of volunteering each week, allowing her to build this up over time.

Rachel now works for a full hour and a half each week, and she is still working on developing this further.

Everyone at our Dukeries centre is so proud of how far Rachel has come and how much she has achieved with her work.

Well done, Rachel!

Manager Katie at our Whitegates respite service took a break from her office on Tuesday to celebrate her birthday in Skegness with service users Taylor and Mariah.

The itinerary for the day was written by Taylor and Mariah and included a tour of the Jolly Roger factory where all the kiddie rides that Taylor loves are created and fixed-up for use.

We love how our service users teamed up to plan Katie's birthday trip, all had a lovely time! 💖

We love seeing the people we support progress and learn vital independent living skills.

Richard at our Dukeries service enjoyed a wonderful cook-and-eat session today where he chose what he wanted to eat, selected and even bought the ingredients.

With support, he then cooked his pizza from start to finish - staff said it smelled delicious! 🍕