Woodside Rural Care

In this therapeutic environment, a rural setting, we can offer experience and rehabilitation within a real work place focusing on the principal tasks of caring for livestock, the growing of herbs and vegetables, general horticulture, the arts and the creation of related products.

We aim to enable and assist those with learning disabilities, (severe to mild) as well as offering vocational rehabilitation for those with mental health problems and/or those that have suffered neurological events such as head injury or stroke. Through the use of an enabling approach we will support individuals (co-farmers) either to regain lost skills or develop new ones. Completion of a person centred assessment will lead to the setting of individual goals in collaboration with the co-farmer. Once goals are agreed and set the demands of their achievement and the associated tasks will be reviewed and adjusted as an individuals ability and progress dictate. We are able to assist individuals of all potentials from those who will benefit purely from the experience to those who may be looking to return to work. All our activities are focused on the achievement of personal goals within a real life environment; Woodside whilst functioning as a not for profit venture will participate in commercial activities producing and offering for sale its produce and products, participants will be contributors to and beneficiaries of a successful venture.