Supporting individuals

Community Cars

linked to the Community Wheels service, Community Cars is able through volunteer car drivers to help people without their own transport to access hospital appointments or visiting friends, families, the GP or the shops.

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Cultural Learning Project

This delivers a wide range of training courses to enable those seen as hard to reach learners to engage in learning opportunities. Through a team of tutors primarily drawn from the local ethnic minority community, our current courses include Cookery, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Sewing and Yoga. For more information, click here

Herts Interpreting and Translation Service (HITS)

We are a registered exam centre for the Chartered Institute of Linguists and train individuals fluent in two or more languages through to sitting the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (DPSI). We hold a number of Service Level Agreements with statutory agencies to provide interpreting and translation services and current volume is 5,000 assignments per annum. For more information please access the HITS website – www.hertsinterpreting.org

Meeting the Information Needs of Economic Migrants

We are working with partners in Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Spain to share understanding, research the current position on migration and to develop tools to support migrant workers make informed choices.

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Paradise Furniture and Training Service

From premises in Wood Lane, Hemel Hempstead we deliver two linked functions. The first is the receipt of unwanted items of furniture and selling these at low cost to households on benefits and the general public. The second service is the delivery of training, such as fork lift driver training, basic construction skills, beauty treatment, arts and crafts to a wide variety of client groups.

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Shopmobility

We manage the Shopmobility Service in Hemel Hempstead from premises at the Marlowes Shopping Centre. The service enables people with mobility difficulties to access the town centre shops.

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