EnviroAbility has been heading down the road of enabling for over ten years.  At this point we are never sure whether it is our inability to find the right words/explanation of the process used, or what has been achieved is so simple yet out of the ordinary, that people need to come down and have a look/poke it themselves to see how it has worked.

EnviroAbility established a structure that listened to and enabled people that used the service to shape its growth and development.  We have developed our own concept of what nowadays is referred to as Circles of Support: Except, our version thought ahead and, for example, drew onboard potential employers as part of the process of developing valued roles.  Indeed they and the general public are behind the initiatives that have lead to opportunities for full employment.

EnviroAbility empowers and puts people in contact to make things happen.  We link and enable people and groups, helping them to realise that most things are achievable, and trying to infect people with the enthusiasm to become involved.

The Ryefield Centre is a building that is based in the community; EnviroAbility has transformed this from a day-care centre into a thriving community centre.  We have taken service users out into the community, creating worthwhile projects and work for people with learning disabilities, and brought the community back into the Ryefield Centre by making the centre attractive for groups to come in - the Ryefield Centre is a reachable place.

• Encouraged Eco-clubs in schools - for example, EnviroAbility has obtained can crushers, skips for paper for John Kyrle High School in Ross-on-Wye.
• Introduced the Alupro can collection competition for Herefordshire Schools, encouraging, enabling and promoting aluminium and steel can collection and recycling.  We also found sponsorship for the prize cup from BPI Plastics.
• Organised recycling courses/visits from local schools - for example 80 children from Lea Primary School, just outside Ross-on-Wye, had a day of events at EnviroAbility's facilities; similar events have also been run for Scouts, Beavers, Cubs etc.
• Involvement with kids on reparations - this group normally get poorer quality jobs, but EnviroAbility has entrusted them with the keys to our factory unit where they have more choices and can make decisions with their one-to-one worker.
• Provided opportunities for people on probation Community Service Orders.