Partners  provided cover for staff absence and holiday/maternity leave with Project House which is a virtual youth centre that has a drop-in centre transiting to various locations in Kent.  There is also a mobile bus “House” this project has been funded by Kent Youth Service www.kenthouseparty.com We are currently running a survey to gather young [...]

ECM Workbank’s expert Partners have recently helped to interview organisations shortlisted to deliver the Advocacy Service on behalf of KCC  for people with a learning disability. The service must help those with a learning disability with all areas of their lives.  The experts took part in several training sessions to ensure they were properly prepared [...]

The Young Offenders Unit at Cookham Wood.  HMYOI Cookham Wood accommodates young men aged 15-17 many of the 157 young people are from London and the South East.  The post has been filled by an ECM Partner who started the position in November and will stay until April 2012.  The role will involve working with [...]

We are delighted that over the past six months we have been working with a number of adults with learning disabilities on a variety of projects for Kent County Council, Campus Reprovision.  They have been so professional and have learnt so many new skills that they have now joined ECM Workbank as partners and are [...]

ECM Workbank in response to the Campus reprovision team relocation monitoring commission will design a monitoring tool which can be used to gain the experiences of those adults with learning disabilities who have recently come out of NHS provision into assisted accommodation. ECM will use the 13 trained monitors who also have learning disabilities and [...]

The Campus Reprovision team have asked ECM Workbank to enable the adults with learning disabilities who were a part of the Advocacy Monitoring Project, to join ECM Workbank as partners. ECM Workbank is an independent not-for-profit organization which delivers a range of services through a network of some 60 experienced professionals. The 13 Adults who [...]

ECM Workbank partners will be providing a variety of art and creative activities for disabled young people for half term leisure breaks in October and February. There will be jewellery making, photography, film production and other opportunities. In February the activities will be hosted by Bradfields School in Gillingham.  The pupils will have work opportunities in [...]

KDAT Kent Drugs and Alcohol Team have commissioned ECM Workbank to event manage their Hidden Harm Strategy Launch conferences.  The Core Office team will provide all aspects of conference organisation and support, including enabling an eco friendly service where all information is shared via posting on the ECM Website. www.kdaat.co.uk Video footage of the Maidstone [...]

Artists Unite Tunbridge Wells area 5.00pm – 6.30pm 6 week course to enjoy art and meet friends. Drama Course starts 27th Sept, Camden Centre. Photography How to use a camera, how to take the perfect picture. Printing and displaying your pictures. Music Make music, try different instruments, play together in a group. Learn how to [...]

Social Club Food with Friends is a “come dine with me” social eating club. It is  run by a partnership led by ECM Workbank working with North West Kent Advocacy service and Ether Creative. The project will run until next June 2011 and will provide a fun social, informative activity for adults with learning disabilities in [...]

A work force development project working with organisations in the Canterbury area to provide training and mentoring support to enable them to work more effectively to meet the needs of disabled young people who access their organisations for short breaks and leisure.  This project is a partnership between ECM Workbank, St Nicholas school and the [...]

Delivering Disability Training A range of training helping to raise awareness of disabilities is being delivered to the youth service across the county.  Training has focused around how to plan events so that they are inclusive, raising awareness of autism and disability from a young persons and families perspective www.kent.gov.uk

This project has involved working with adults with learning disabilities from the County’s district partnerships.  Adults have volunteered to work with ECM Workbank partners to design a questionnaire to review their advocacy service.  Adults have then been trained to interview other adults with learning disabilities about this service, collate the results and feed them back to [...]

This project has sought to demonstrate the communication barriers for disabled young people for accessing mainstream youth provision and the creative ways that many organisations, public, private and voluntary provide to overcome this and enable disabled young people to participate and have fun.  This project has been in partnership with KCC, Kent Youth, Partnership with [...]

Partners from ECM Workbank provided counselling support to build the confidence of participants who were engaged in a project to facilitate their re engagement into the workforce or setting up of their own small business.  15 adults either re entered the workforce, set up a small business or engaged in further education

This is a much needed project being run across three children’s centres.  Regular groups are held for fathers to meet and talk about relevant issues and bring their children on a Saturday morning.  The children get to play and have fun as do the fathers!  ECM Workbank provide a partner to come alongside the fathers [...]

ECM Workbank were commission by the Kent Drugs and Alcohol team to review outreach youth projects that seek to address issues of alcohol misuse.  The findings from the review and research on national and international best practice was then used to write a strategy for initiating a new outreach project as a best practice model [...]

ECM Workbank provided the administration and management of a cross county drug and alcohol training for summer youth schemes.  All liaison, communication, quality assurance and financial accounting was provided www.kdaat.co.uk

A partner provided 10 weeks of Sports Coaching in Parkwood, Maidstone with young people including football, netball, dodgeball and table tennis September & October 2009

A partner provided a 1 day workshop for staff development and confidence building to Connexion service staff on an away day www.connexionskentandmedway.co.uk