Skills and Wellbeing
Our Skills and Wellbeing department offers various activities and training opportunities for adults with Learning Disabilities and other additional needs living in Southeast Wales. With many projects such as Take Charge, Boosting Nature, Insight Investigators, and the Secret Garden with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.
Our projects
Our projects provide opportunities for people to gain employment and life skills through gardening, first aid training, confidence courses and more.
Skills & Wellbeing Insight app’s Volunteer Hub
Our Volunteer Hub project is possible thanks to WCVA’s Strategic Grant funding. The project supports adults with learning disabilities to take part in building a ...
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Skills & Wellbeing Restore the Thaw
Restore the Thaw project supports adults with learning disabilities to take part in environmental improvement work in the River Thaw catchment area.
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Skills & Wellbeing One planet
One planet encourages adults with Learning Disabilities to learn about climate change and teaches them how to take climate action at home and in the ...
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Skills & Wellbeing Your vote matters
Funded by Welsh Government’s Democratic Engagement Grant, Your Vote Matters is a year-long pilot project to encourage political awareness amongst people with learning disabilities through ...
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Skills & Wellbeing The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a horticulture and history project funded by the WCVA’s Volunteering Wales Grant. We work with adults with learning disabilities and community ...
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Our latest news
Read the latest news from the Skills and Wellbeing team at Innovate Trust.
Your Vote Matters: Easy Read voting guides for accessible elections
If a true secret ballot is to exist, the voting ...
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What is our Insight app’s new Volunteer Hub?
We are excited to announce that we have successfully received ...
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A spooktacular feedback session with Take Charge
On the first of November 2023, Innovate Trust held a ...
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Tackling voting turnout for people with Learning Disabilities
Voting is a fundamental right, and everyone should be able ...
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A week for the past, present, and future of care in Wales
What a week of excitement! From the Housemates years to our most recent work, and for years to come...
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Busting myths with new Welsh Government funding
This year, Learning Disability Week focuses on busting myths and ...
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Happy, healthy, and taking part: Emma’s positive journey
This week we’re acknowledging Emma’s achievements in getting more involved ...
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Art for anxiety – Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
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My Secret Garden experience by Sunflower
I started going to the Secret Garden in December 2022 ...
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What have we been up to at Porthkerry Park?
The Porthkerry Park Project is one of our conservation volunteering ...
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‘Tis the Season for Boosting Nature
Our Boosting Nature project supports adults with Learning Disabilities to ...
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Celebrate Wales Climate Week with Insight into Climate Action
Providing the opportunity for adults with learning disabilities to learn ...
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Goodbye to our beloved Step On project
Step On was a, WCVA ESF Active Inclusion funded project operating ...
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Volunteer with Skills and Wellbeing
The return of a beloved project This September, our Skills ...
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Building and Maintaining Strong Partnerships across Rhondda Cynon Taff
We pride ourselves on our relationships and partnerships with other ...
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Taking Charge of our Part-Accredited Courses!
This month has been all about picking back up our ...
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New Year, New Me, New Work Relevant Certificates
Take Charge would like to wish everyone a very happy ...
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Merry Christmas from Take Charge!
This December Take Charge has really got into the Christmas ...
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October is Black History Month!
This October we have been celebrating Black History Month! Black ...
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Take Charge in Ynysangharad Park
Accessible and safe Now that lockdown has finally begun to ...
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Happy Birthday Take Charge!
Take Charge is officially one year old. The project hasn’t ...
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Work this way: raising career aspirations during lockdown
Did you know that only 5% of people with a ...
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Democracy is for everyone
Towards the end of 2020 Innovate Trust’s Skills and Wellbeing ...
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Hitch your wagon to a star: enhancing and promoting activities
Traditionally Innovate Trust’s Skills and Wellbeing projects have linked with ...
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Developing rich and rewarding partnerships: working with National Museum Wales
For over 10 years Innovate Trust has been working with ...
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Take Charge new beginnings
We were thrilled to be awarded additional funding from WCVA’s ...
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What else have we been up to this month?
New partnerships with Hafod and Treforest day centre September’s been ...
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August and September with Take Charge
Here’s what we’ve been up to over the last month ...
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Working at The Secret Garden
We’ve had some volunteers out recently from Castle House in ...
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Parkview Cafe BSC Training
Parkview Cafe is one of Innovate Trust’s vocational training projects. ...
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Fire Buddy Training with Take Charge
One of our popular courses is Fire Buddy Training. This ...
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Easter Scavenger Hunt with Take Charge
We held a natural scavenger hunt at Barry Sidings Country ...
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New Podcast episode Take Charge
The second episode of our podcast “Innovate Trust Radio” is ...
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Skills For Independence Training Take Charge
Adult Learning Wales facilitated a four week course for us ...
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Victoria Park Quiz Trail with Take Charge
We love running quiz trails, where teams have a map ...
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Employee volunteering day with Take Charge
We hold regular employee volunteering events with volunteers from big ...
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Project documents
Privacy Notice Documents
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