UK: Flower grower encourages hiring people with learning difficulties
Organic Blooms, on Latteridge Road, gives people from all walks of life and those with learning difficulties employment opportunities and is now encouraging other businesses to do the same.
Horticulturalist Jo Wright, who runs the social enterprise, said: “The week is about demonstrating what valuable employees people with learning difficulties – in particular autism, Aspergers and Down’s syndrome – can be.
“There is substantial evidence of the therapeutic benefits of horticulture and we make sure the four-acre Organic Blooms site is a therapeutic as well as a working environment.”
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