The Usual Place
Description
The Usual Place is a community cafe, and flexible training rooms which provides an excellent, fully accessible facility for the entire community
The former Townhead Church on the corner of Academy Street and Lover's Walk, Dumfries, is owned by Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Inspired has acquired the use of the building to create a social enterprise community cafe accessible to everyone and providing employability skills training for young people aged between 16 and 26 with additonal support needs.
Architects' plans are well progressed and envisage a main area retailing healthy food, tea, coffee and other non-alcholic beverages, an exhibition gallery area for local arts and crafts, a fully equipped and accessible food preparation/kitchen area and flexible training rooms.
To be called ‘The Usual Place', the cafe will become one of the few facilities in Dumfries to be truly accessible to all and, like DGOne, will have a Changing Places toilet.
People with impairments and complex needs often require extra facilities to allow them to use the toilets comfortably.
Changing Places toilets are different to standard disabled toilets with extra features and more space to meet these needs such as height adjustable adult-sized changing benches, tracking hoist systems, adequate space in the changing area for the disabled person and up to two carers, a centrally placed toilet with rooms either side for the carers and screens or curtains to allow the disabled person and carer some privacy.
Without these additional facilities, many would simply not be able to enjoy days out.
The food preparation/kitchen area will also be accessible to disabled people and this part of the project is receiving funding support from the rugby charity, The Wooden Spoon.
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facebook.comWe are recruiting. Sorry for the poor quality of the picture but something to do with our settings or set up seemingly. if you think you have the qualities then please get in touch and get a pack sent out.
Tonight we are hosting a Soul Evening. This event is being run by Temple of Soul and the proceeds are going to The Usual Place and Compass. This will go towards the continuing work of both these valuable services. Saxophone player is Ewan McCall. If you don't have ticket then you have missed your chance as they were sold out ages ago.
This week has been one of fantastic achievements by our young people. Young People have been flying through their SVQ Assessments and achieving remarkable results. This week Gavin, Meg and Cait have all passed practical and knowledge assessments and are getting very close to completing their SVQs. We have had a very busy week and Gavin, Meg and Cait have also been sharing their hospitality skills with some new Team Members, helping them settle in, learn and feel part of the team. Well done Gavin, Meg and Cait.
We are working with the Theatre Royal Dumfries to develop learning and employability opportunities in the arts sector for young people with additional support needs. This is a great opportunity for people to get along and see the fantastic performance work going on and have a think about all the back stage work happens to support it.
Frazer has been very busy today baking today and has created some fabulous iced buns. The sun is shining, and spring is in the air, if you are in town do pop in and join us for some lunch and a sweet treat. We can assure you that Frazer has excelled himself in the kitchen. Well done Frazer.
Jessica recently successfully completed a money workshop with Santander gaining lots of new financial skills for business and day to day living. Well done Jessica.
This clearly explains why we work to enable young people to develop personally meaningfully relationships in The Usual Place and in doing so to learn how to navigate the sometimes complex dynamics that make up our day to day work and personal relationships. We are all social beings and relationships matter to our continued wellbeing.
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