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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