What we do

We work to enable young adults who are 'Not in Employment, Education or Training' (NEETs) to learn skills that could take them into local employment opportunities and to build new business start ups working and learning together. 

We offer opportunities to unemployed adults, those needing social prescriptions to work and recover in an outdoors context, and people referred from the Mole

Valley and DWP authorities as needing help in getting back into the

discipline of work.

We have already created a neighbourhood allotment for therapeutic gardening and horticultural skills development and are negotiating for a North Leatherhead training facility to engage young adults in multi-skilled construction work and bicycle refurbishment.

Our allotment already attracts and helps some key young adults with major problems in life and hosts business community activity days. It has been supported by local philanthropic organisations which provided a tool shed and learning cabin to replace buildings blown down in a storm. The allotment is accessible.

We are lobbying to reinvigorate the area of North Leatherhead as a potential skills source for the new jobs opening up in Surrey through schemes such as the Surrey Local Skills Improvement Project and other national and local government initiatives.