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Welcome to Value Independence

Learn, enjoy & take away new skills

We are an organisation that provides support to help people to gain new skills, improve confidence and become more independent, whether it be within their own home or within the community. We do this in many ways, 1-1 support, group work, respite, literacy and numeracy skills, drama, cookery, shopping to name but a few. We also have many opportunities for individuals to acquire qualifications and work experience.

Welcome to Value Independence

About Us

Value Independence CIC – set up in February 2008 by Company Directors Jo and Sam Warden to provide specialist tailored support for all individuals in the community.

As an organisation, we are passionate about offering a person centered approach to all of our clients, believing that this method of support is core to all good working practices. All of our professional approaches are focussed around learning, confidence building and independent living skills – incorporating those skills, which are needed to achieve and fulfill our clients needs and personal aspirations. Our belief is that EVERYBODY can achieve regardless of personal circumstances. We do our utmost to help everybody to reach his or her aspirations and goals.

Community Interest Company

As a Community Interest Company, our business has a primary social objective. We aim to tackle a wide range of social and environmental issues and we operate in all parts of our economy – using business solutions to achieve public good.

We believe that being a Social Enterprise Company; we have a distinct and valuable role to play in helping to create a strong, sustainable and socially inclusive economy. We have many fantastic links with other organisations, which all operate for the good of our local community.

We are fully committed to investing our resources into to making all services accessible to our clients, working together in partnership to achieve our overall learning objectives. We aim to improve our clients’ quality of life and our experienced staff are appropriately trained to enable them to provide valuable support to them and their families. This is reflected in our long standing client base.

Value Independence offers a family orientated environment to all, both the people we support and our team.

The ethos of our Centre is to provide a safe learning environment where clients are encouraged to:

  • Actively participate in activities
  • Share experiences and feelings with the rest of the group
  • Support and help each other
  • Learn from each other
  • To take ownership of their own learning experience
  • Understand and implement confidentiality
  • To provide an open environment which encourages clients to feel welcome to talk openly about issues that are effecting them
  • And most importantly have fun and enjoy your time at the centre!

Aims and Objectives

- Build client self-esteem and confidence
- Encourage clients to take a leading role in their participation within the group
- To facilitate an environment which supports individual learning as well as encouraging interpersonal skills to be developed.
- Aim to produce a person centred experience to meet the individual needs of the clients

We look to achieve these aims by implementing:

- To encourage clients to work towards a more independent lifestyle.
- To set achievable outcomes
- Weekly Evaluations
- For all members of staff to take ownership of the planning and delivery of the sessions
- When any issues arise, for a solution to be sought after for a quick and happy resolution.

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Our Vision & Plan

We believe every individual is entitled to live an independent life and should be able to participate in activities no matter what their disability.

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