Routeway

The Routeway Service

The Routeway Service works with local people and groups to empower them to achieve their work and learning goals, including social enterprise development.

The service offers assistance to people experiencing labour market disadvantage and has a particular specialism in working with people who have mental health support needs and learning disabilities.

The Routeway team support local people directly as well as referring to other work, learning, training and volunteering services and opportunities.

Routeway also works with local people and groups interested in setting up a social enterprise, particularly supporting the development of service user-led social enterprises and the creation of new opportunities for local marginalised people.

The service actively promotes the benefits of developing a more diverse workforce and seeks to raise the profile of social enterprise sector. For more information on our social enterprise initiatives, please click here.

Routeway Projects

New projects are being developed regularly – we will keep you posted on this page!

Limited Editions

The project provides work-focused mental health recovery support for Brighton and Hove adult residents on the Care Programme Approach (CPA), which is a system to ensure that people with mental illness have the support and treatment that they need from services.

Clients are supported to develop their aspirations in a work-style environment and are encouraged to participate in selecting and developing the range of services offered. The project offers one-to-one and group work support whilst providing training and workshops covering a range of activities, such as woodwork, metal work and art.

Limited Editions has a social entrepreneurial approach, creating revenue from the sale of goods and services that clients are supported to actively pursue and reinvesting any profits back into the project.

Download our Limited Editions – Service Leaflet

New Road Nurseries

The service provides therapeutic work placements for people with mental health support needs within a horticultural environment, with the aim of progressing people towards their work and learning goals.

The plant nursery is located in East Sussex and acts as a social enterprise, selling its plants and other products whilst reinvesting any profits to improve the service for the benefit of the local community.

To find out more about New Road Nurseries

Tailored Support

Are you are interested in developing your ideas into a social enterprise to increase positive social, economic and/or environmental impact whilst being financially sustainable? If so, the Routeway Service offers tailored packages of support; this ranges from one-to-one meetings, group sessions, bespoke training courses and phone and e-mail advice and guidance.

The service is open to individuals, groups and organisations from a range of sectors including: local groups; voluntary and community sector including charities; commercial and private business; and statutory bodies including local authorities and health trusts.

Support can be one-off or longer term. Charges start from £35 per hour and we also have package and day rates. Initial consultation sessions, either face-to-face or by phone, are free of charge.

Download our Tailored Support leaflet