Impact Projects
Our impact projects are driven by a belief that learning disabled and autistic people should enjoy the same rights to choice, education, housing, civil rights, health, employment and independence as everyone else.
Everything we do comes from needs identified by service users, their families and professionals.
Our current impact projects include:
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Training for Service Users
We run training for service users on many subjects, including:
- 2 day Basic Cooking and Kitchen Hygiene Course
This supportive, hands-on course focuses on building confidence, independence, and practical kitchen skills in a safe and structured way.
The training covers:
Kitchen safety
Following simple recipes step by step
Measuring and preparing ingredients
Preparing healthy, low-cost meals
Kitchen hygiene
For further information about when we will be running this training, please contact Dominic Box at The Hive Avon.
- 4 day Relationship and Sexual Health Course
This training provides participants with information to enable them to make safe and smart choices around dating and
maintaining intimate relationships. It is a safe space where they can learn, ask questions, and feel comfortable.
What they will learn:
- What healthy relationships look like
- How to set boundaries and make connections
- Safe dating
- Being intimate and sexual health
- All about consent
- Staying safe in relationships
- Bite-size Training
We currently have 14 bitesize training sessions covering a wide range of independent living skills subjects. These small group, half day sessions enable people to pick and choose which subjects they wish to learn at a pace suitable for them.
You can view and book our planned sessions by visiting our Ticket Tailor page via the link 
here.
Each session costs £12, plus a small booking fee. If you are unable to book online via Ticket Tailor please contact Dominic Box at The Hive Avon for an application form.
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Training for Professionals
- Supporting Safe and Healthy Relationships
Supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism to navigate friendships, intimacy, and relationships is an essential but often challenging part of frontline work. Staff often feel unsure how to balance safety, safeguarding, rights, and respect and want clearer guidance and more confidence. Our half day training for support staff provides exactly that.
Staff will learn how to:
- Support safe, healthy, informed intimate relationships
- Approach sensitive topics with confidence and professionalism
- Recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns
- Promote dignity, autonomy, and wellbeing
- Professional Services Portfolio
We also have a range of ready to use training resources for professionals particularly support workers working with autistic adults and adults with a learning disability.
In addition to the training opportunities within our portfolio, we offer bespoke training design and delivery to meet the needs of your organisation and are happy to discuss your individual training requirements.
Nurturing Independence
For parents and carers, thinking about the future when they’re no longer around to care for their son/daughter, is one of the most difficult things, practically and emotionally. Planning can feel overwhelming and is not always easy or straightforward. It can be difficult to find the information, time and energy to explore their options when they are providing day-to-day care and support.
However difficult, it is important to face these challenges and start planning the future to give their son/daughter a happy, independent, fulfilled and healthy life.
Our Nurturing Independence project provides trusted, accessible 1–2–1 information and support to help parents carers move from fear and uncertainty to informed, confident action enabling them to navigate the complexities of planning the future.
To receive more information about our work please contact Dominic Box at The Hive Avon
0117 9614372 or dominic.box@thehiveavon.org.uk
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If you have any questions, or would like to sign up to do any training, please contact
Impact Project Manager Dominic Box
Email: dominic.box@thehiveavon.org.uk
Phone: 0117 9614372