Workbridge

12/10/2026

🤣 A night of laughter. A community coming together. A chance to make a difference.

Join us for the Workbridge Comedy Fundraiser Evening! 🎤

Bring your friends and enjoy a night out while helping adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs build skills, friendships and independence. 🧡

After the closure of the original Workbridge, we’re rebuilding from scratch with the support of people and businesses who care. Your support helps us create a place where people feel welcome, valued and able to build a future for themselves.

🎟️ Every ticket helps us keep building.
🎁 We’ve got raffle prizes up for grabs too!

Come for the laughs and help us make more opportunities possible. We’d love to see you there! 🧡

https://tickets.thecomedycrate.com/events/thecomedycrate/2469129

01/10/2026

🪵 Calling our local woodworkers and woodturners!

Could you share your skills and help people take their next steps towards work and better wellbeing?

Workbridge is looking for someone to teach basic woodwork, woodturning or both to a small group of adults experiencing mental health challenges. 💚

Through practical and therapeutic learning, you’ll help people build confidence, develop vocational skills and establish positive routines. The programme supports learners to improve their wellbeing, access further employment support and move towards a more stable future.

🛠️ We’re looking for someone with:
• Proven skills and experience in woodwork or woodturning
• A patient, encouraging and non judgemental approach
• An understanding of safe tool use
• Ideally, experience in education or supporting adults facing barriers to work

This could suit a retired tutor or teacher, a craftsperson with experience of supporting others, or someone considering a career change.

📍 Moulton, Northampton
📅 Initially three hours per week for 25 weeks
💷 Good rates of pay, with freelance or employed options
🤝 Staff support provided in every session

For the right person, there may be scope for more hours and a permanent position within Workbridge.

An enhanced DBS check and all checks for employment will be required.

📩 Interested? Please email [email protected] with a brief introduction, your relevant experience and contact details.

Please share with someone who would enjoy helping people build skills and confidence! 🌱

28/09/2026

📣 Shoutout to our local community:

We’re making Christmas arts and crafts ready for our pop up stalls and we’re looking for the following:

🎄Christmas fabric

🔘Buttons in Christmassy colours

🪵Small logs (for making reindeers)

🕯️Wax melt kits (have you got any in the back of a cupboard you’ve never used?!

🥎 Polystyrene balls (ping pong to tennis ball sized)

🎀 Christmas ribbon

Anything else Christmassy that you have that you think we might be able to use! 🎅🏼

25/09/2026

What a fantastic week at Workbridge! 💚

We started on Monday with a brilliant volunteer evening. It was lovely to see so many people wanting to get involved, share their skills and help Workbridge grow. We came away with lots of ideas, offers of support and plans for the months ahead. Thank you to everyone who came along! 🧡

Monday afternoon took us to Mini Meadows Farm 🐴🐐🐹

Our learners enjoyed getting out into the community and meeting everything from donkeys and Shetland ponies to guinea pigs and some VERY smelly goats! Lots of smiles, laughter and animal cuddles.

On Tuesday morning we got practical 🔨🪚

Our learners have been learning how to use hand tools safely while starting to make wooden planters and window boxes.

In the afternoon, we swapped tools for paintbrushes 🎨

We continued creating artwork that will become cards, Christmas gifts and products for our pop up stalls at the Elgar Centre and Spencer Dallington Community Centre in November. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been making! 🎄

Wednesday was a big moment for independence 🛒💷

Our learners worked on budgeting and shopping, then went out to buy everything they needed independently. Jenny wasn’t needed at all! They planned, budgeted, found what they needed and managed their shopping brilliantly.

Then it was back to the kitchen to make enchiladas 🌯

They were absolutely gorgeous and went down very well with everyone!

Thursday and Friday were all about work experience 🐶

One of our learners continued her placement at the dog groomers, where she is developing her confidence, learning to work as part of a team and building practical skills in caring for the dogs.

These are the moments that Workbridge is all about. Learning new skills, growing in confidence, becoming more independent, getting out into the community and taking steps towards work.

What a week!

So proud of all our learners and everything they are achieving. 💚🧡

Bring on next week!

23/09/2026

Progress!!! Learners shopping independently for their cooking items this morning!! Whoop 🙌

22/09/2026

What a lovely evening meeting people who want to support Workbridge as volunteers.
If you couldn’t make it and want to find out more, please do get in touch for a chat 🥰

21/09/2026

💐Come along and meet us at Spencer Dallington Community Centre this evening at 6pm to find out more about volunteering opportunities with Workbridge! ☕️🍰🥰

20/09/2026

If you missed Jenny being interviewed on NLive’s Women’s hour today, here’s the link! 🥰

Thank you, Anna King ☺️💐

Women's Hour - Voices from the Community - NLive Radio

19/09/2026

🌞 We had a lovely time at Sport4Fitness CIC's Disability Fun Day yesterday. The singers with Performing Room were especially good. See you again next year! (with Workbridge)