What do the Houses of Parliament, Sainsbury's, Southbank University, The Unicorn Theatre and the Old Post Office Bakery have in common?
People who attended an Employers’ Breakfast hosted recently by Toucan Employment will know the answer, as all five organisations spoke positively about their experiences of employing people with learning difficulties.
Since 1989 Toucan Employment has been working with people with learning difficulties in Southwark. More than 300 people have been supported into a wide variety of jobs, with employers as diverse as the Ministry of Defence, The Royal Festival Hall and Urban Outfitters.
Toucan supports around 70 people a year in supported employment. Targets are very important to the organisation as the Managing Director, Ray Whittaker, explains: “working for an Employment project, it is vital that we can show that we get results.” Toucan has many service users who have been in jobs for many years but the project also focuses on numerous potential jobseekers who have little or no experience of work.
