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Boyn Dementia Service: Listening to Feedback to Improve Lunchtime Experience
At Boyn Dementia Service, the team has taken time to listen to feedback about the lunch options available.
Focused Friends create memory garden
Focused Friends, at Wokingham Community Lives, created a memory garden this summer. Offering a peaceful retreat for anyone who needs a moment to pause, reflect, and remember.
Optalis Supported Employment team supporting Wokingham Borough Council's project to make employment support it offers to residents more accessible
Anyone who needs some help with their career can now contact the council’s employment outreach team by phone 0118 977 8650, Monday to Friday, 10am to 3pm, or email employmentoutreach@wokingham.gov.uk.
Optalis Celebrate Dignity Action Day 2022
This year, our customers and colleagues celebrated Dignity Action Day in lots of different ways, including lunch and learn sessions, stop the clock activities and mini cultural days.
Setting up job seekers for success
Optalis Supported Employment Service's new venture is seeing positive results, in its first few months of operations. The new vocational training programme is called Ability Cleaning
Maintaining 100% Compliance in all CQC registered services.
Optalis have adopted an approach of continual improvement across its services, with the implementation of a strengthened Governance and Quality Assurance Team in 2017
Community Lives joins a Tree Planting Day at Ockwells Park
A group from Community Lives joined a Tree Planting Day at Ockwells Park. The group had a great morning supporting their local community and doing their part for the environment.
Care provider celebrates Good in all registered services after CQC inspection!
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Customers from Community Lives services at Oakbridge and Boyn Grove centres enjoy a Dance Workshop
Customers from Community Lives services at Oakbridge and Boyn Grove centres were invited to a Dance Workshop run by 4Motion CIC. Everyone had a great time and left feeling really energised.
Help recycle your unwanted equipment
It is important that we maintain a supply of equipment and you can help by returning equipment no longer used. If you have been loaned equipment you are no longer using. Please hand it back
Optalis helps Wokingham maintain its top spot for Supported Employment in the South East and moves up to No.2 in the country
Optalis Supported Employment service for Wokingham residents with learning disabilities and autism has been placed as the top local authority for supported employment outcomes in the South-East.
