Congratulations to our two new Support Coordinators, Byron and Sarah! Byron is our new Independent Support Coordinator, working in the Independents' office. Byron has been working at Genesis for 5 years as a Support Worker, and most recently, he has been providing maternity cover for the Independent Lead role. Sarah is our new Support Coordinator for the 1:1's, working in the Support Coordinators’ office. [...]
This week we’ve been busy with all of our Easter activities, including making Easter baskets, decorating Easter bonnets, and doing an Easter egg hunt in the garden at our daycare centre in Ipswich! All of our service users have got involved in the hunt, with lots of happy faces as they found their eggs hidden all around the garden. We gave out over 50 eggs over [...]
We were delighted to welcome our local Member of Parliament Tom Hunt to our Genesis site last week for a Q&A session with our service users. Our Chief Exec, Rob Hart, and two of our service users, Carl and Alice, gave Tom a tour of the site where we organise activities for disabled adults and young people, as it was Tom’s first visit to Genesis. He got [...]
We had an absolutely amazing day celebrating World Book Day at Genesis! Everyone looked brilliant, we were so blown away with how creative and unique the costumes were, and how much everyone got involved. Our rooms at our Genesis daycare in Ipswich were all themed with Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Rainbow Fish and Harry Potter decorations and [...]
Thank you to the Ipswich Greyfriars Round Table for making the Green Bike Project their main charity for the Christmas Rudolph collection.Thanks to the generosity of the residents of Ipswich, and the time and resources donated by local organisations, we are receiving £15,000 towards the building of a new workshop facility for the bike project.Our staff had a fantastic night helping out to collect for [...]
This week we are celebrating National Apprenticeship Week, which highlights the amazing work of apprentices across England. Our apprentice Evie is such a fantastic member of the Genesis team, she guides and supports the customers in their choices and decisions, all whilst being a friendly face they can turn to. We feel very fortunate to have such a hardworking and dedicated support worker like [...]
Our friends at Elmy Cycles Ipswich are celebrating their 100th year in business, and we are pleased to announce that they have chosen to partner with our Green Bike Project, and Genesis is one of their chosen charities for their centenary celebrations! The Green Bike Project specialises in the bike repair of second hand bikes, providing work based day activities for adults with disabilities, teaching them [...]
We recently had a visit from ITV Anglia news, who came up to see the summerhouse at our Ipswich disability day care centre, that our support worker Kevin has built almost entirely from recycled materials! He is an incredible member of our team and the community, and it’s fantastic to see him get the recognition he deserves.We gave ITV Anglia a very festive welcome, Santa [...]
Our three new personal care suites are finished and fully operational at our Ipswich disability day care centre! We now have the Bluebell, Rose and Violet rooms, the newest additions to the extensive list of facility improvements that are happening at Genesis. Our old PC room was cramped, dull and the sense of privacy that the screens provided in between PC beds was limited. The renovation project, [...]
We are excited to announce that we have been chosen as Ipswich Greyfriars Round Table's main charity for this year's Rudolph fundraiser! The funds raised will be going towards a much needed refurb of the Green Bike Project workshop, so please tell your friends and family to get donating. The Green Bike Project, established in 2008, recycles old bikes and transforms them, teaching adults [...]
