The Brandon Trust: Supporting Bristolians with a disability through employment!

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With the cost of living biting hard — including for disabled families who often have extra costs in daily life — shops like this are lifelines. Affordable clothes, sustainable fashion, plus the knowledge your money does good. Plus, the shop also offers artisan craft from Brandon’s potteries and farm enterprises, giving local makers and supported employees another platform.

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00:00um so brandon trust supports people with learning disabilities and or autism which the employee

00:06people um who may not be able to have a full-time nine to five monday to friday job they might be

00:13able to do a couple of hours a day and they come in and we support them we train them and

00:20they just become part of the team really so i am here at the brandon trust on north street

00:25bedminster which is a shop that offers people with disabilities paid employment while also being

00:31supported so let's chat to their team to find out a little bit about what this supported employment

00:37means and why it has such a big impact my colleague who has learning disability has been working with

00:42me for three and a half to four years now and he is just an absolute gem he has learned so many skills

00:51and even if i'm having a bad day in the morning and i need lots of coffee he's just always happy

00:56always lifts me up and we just we work so fast so hard we have to in this kind of industry working

01:04in charity shops with the amount of donations we get in i have to sort through so so quickly uh yeah

01:11why is it important then obviously there are so many barriers for people with disabilities

01:16yeah getting into work so why is it important for an organization like this to be supporting

01:21and kind of helping people who who need i think it's just yeah giving people an opportunity so

01:26they don't feel isolated i feel like um you know the jobs i've i've dare i say i've had 17 jobs in my

01:35life it sounds awful but it's been a lot of part-time and christmas work but sometimes there's not that um

01:42kind of opportunity it's just not the opportunity for for people on you know on a scale often people

01:51with disabilities or additional needs find it very hard to secure employment that is supportive so

01:57something like the brandon trust does just that and within the city of bristol there has been a massive

02:02uptake so it's like using the till using technology pricing and sorting checking a quality check for

02:11example not putting items out that are damaged broken it's for example like a glass picture frame

02:20you know if it's scratched or broke we don't want to hurt our customers we're trying to protect

02:24the um the people that want to buy the products from our doing the donations that we get um

02:32yeah it's all hands on deck and it's quite practical skills customer skills like talking to members of

02:38the public um they shadow us a lot we have people that shadow us and uh and i think that helps or finding

02:48hobbies and talking about the merchandise is a really easy one really but um it's really great for

02:56all all of the staff to pick up on that

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