BANWELL POTTERY
Based in Worle Centre, Banwell Pottery is part of Brandon Trust; a community-based employment and training project.
We offer people with learning disabilities and autism the opportunity to get experience and develop skills in a supportive and safe environment. We believe that people with learning disabilities and autism should be free to live the lives they choose. It’s important to us that our potters enjoy everything they do in the studio.
Our potters learn about the whole process of creating products to sell, from design through to production, painting, and finishing. They learn the trade in a professional setting and can focus their learning based on their skills and what they enjoy.
Everything we produce is designed and made by the people we support including individually designed tiles, hangers, and coasters. We sell our products from our studio as well as at craft and art fairs across North Somerset and Bristol. Our products are also on sale in the Brandon Trust charity shops and in our Etsy shop.
Brandon Trust Charity Shop Locations & Etsy Shop
We offer sessions that provide employment training and work experience, and sessions that are more leisure-based, which provide a fantastic opportunity for people to develop their creative skills. We also have paid, supported employees who work as pottery assistants.
We even run fortnightly evening classes for members of the public to come along and have a go.
This is a flexible course for beginners or experienced potters, offering slab work, coil work, hand building, modelling, sculpture, relief work, and tile making. Throwing is also available (access may be limited as we only have one wheel).
If you are interested in a pottery session or if you have any questions, please call 01934 756 481 or email BT.Banwellpottery@brandontrust.org
To find out more about Banwell and Brandon, click here.
THE BIG GREEN MACHINE
Big Green Machine provides support for people to learn new skills in garden maintenance.
The project offers services to customers in the local area, including grounds maintenance at the @Worle Leisure Centre.
Big Green Machine provides training, voluntary work experience, and the opportunity for autistic people and people with learning disabilities to be involved in outdoor, practical sessions which offer:
Opportunities to learn new skills, develop confidence and self-esteem
Physical and emotional benefits such as activity and exercise, a sense of pride and achievement
@WORLE DAY SERVICES
Brandon Trust day services @Worle offer a range of activities for autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities.
Activities are designed to provide social opportunities and to promote independence in life skills, such as budgeting, shopping and cooking.
The service also offers a range of sensory sessions, including Magic Table – a projection system for interactive sensory activities.
Positive outcomes:
Opportunities to learn new skills, develop confidence and self-esteem
Increased independence
Physical and emotional benefits
