Workscheme showcases work by people with learning disabilities

A Doncaster-based service that provides employment for people with learning disabilities held an open day to showcase their work this week. The Workscheme, which is run by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) at its St Catherine’s site in Balby, exhibited a range of hand-made wooden products including toy boxes, garden furniture, bird tables and hedgehog hibernation boxes, which it offers for sale to staff. Service users Robert Windle (left) and Roy Moxon The self-funding scheme provides service users with skills including woodwork and gardening in their own allotment. The Workscheme also offers trust staff a furniture