The document summarizes the Pavestone Centre project which offers work and leisure activities. It describes the social enterprise that produces traditional Irish crafts using local materials for the tourist market. The center aims to develop work skills and help clients enter employment or volunteering through a sheltered business. It discusses the rationale of viewing clients as people and reflecting the local area. The center has been successful in helping clients find jobs and training. It also notes the potential to replicate this model with other social enterprises catering to the tourism industry.

1. The
Pavestone
Centre

2. The presentation:-
1.Describes the project.
2.Outlines the Service model.
3.Discusses collaborative
working with the University
of Ulster.

3. PAVEPAVE PPreparation and
AAssessment for
VVocation and
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4. PAVESTONE CENTRE
“Promoting natural living through
productive and recreative activity.
Paving the way for better health and a
quality lifestyle.”

5. Pavestone offers:-
WORK LEISURE

6. Everyone has something
worthwhile to contribute to
society.
All people should have the
opportunity of independent,
productive and pleasurable
living.
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7. If clients are not
‘Work Ready’

8. Pavestone offers a
SHELTERED BUSINESS

9. A ‘Social Enterprise’
A business, but not fully self-supporting

10. The social enterprise produces
products for tourist market
What do tourists want?

11. Traditional Irish itemsTraditional Irish items

13. Sheltered Business : Products
• Simple but quality products made from 5 different
traditional Irish materials: clay, wax, paper, fibre, plants
• Six work rooms for:
Claywork
Wax or Candlemaking
Papercraft
Fibrework or Fabricwork
Plant growing or Horticulture
• We take our inspiration from the shapes and shades of
the North Irish Causeway Coast.

14. Atlantic Range inspired by the
sea and beaches along the local
coastline
Volcanic Range inspired by the
volcanic activity creating the
Giant’s Causeway

15. Candles made in the shape of the causeway stones

16. Simulated basalt and granite stone frames and
the Cooley Cross are produced within the paper workshop

17. Table mats/runners, cushions and
scented bags are made from Irish
Linen with three different Celtic
Designs
Bags and purses made from
handmade felted fleece

18. MacCool’s
Garden
Centre

19. The garden is well supported by the local public and functions all year round
providing summer and winter bedding plants and a variety of shrubs and trees

20. Aim of MacCool’s
To develop work potential by improving
→ work skills
→ work behaviours
→ work tolerance.
Enabling people to enter employment or
voluntary work,
or contribute to a worthwhile sheltered
business.

21. Client progress 2012 – 2013
6 returned to employment
3 entered training/education
11 started voluntary work
8 provided with advice/equipment
to maintain them in the work
setting.

22. What if clients are not able to make it, into
open employment?

23. MacCool’s give the opportunity:-
•to be actively income generating
(by contributing to a worthwhile work project
and gain some reward in kind, through the
subsidised leisure programme), and
•to gain some of the benefits of working
(physical, psychological and social).

24. 2. THE SERVICE
MODEL

25. 2. THE SERVICE
MODEL
What’s its rationale?

26. VIEW
YOUR
CLIENTS
AS
PEOPLE
LET
YOUR
SERVICE
REFLECT
YOUR
LOCALITY
MODEL

27. PEOPLE WITH HEALTH ISSUES AND DISABILITIES
HAVE THE SAME NEEDS AS EVERYONE ELSE
~ to make a living and enjoy recreation.
SO
GIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK AND CONSTRUCTIVE
LEISURE
(using sound methodology)
=
VIEW CLIENTS AS PEOPLE

28. LET THE SERVICE REFLECT THE LOCALITY
the landscape, heritage and culture.

29. BY USING THE ‘LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING’

30. ~ inspiration is received: for a manufacturing business
~ giving back: financial return generally and
rewards of purposeful work to
clients.
~ inspiration is received: for constructive leisure pursuits
~ giving back: restorative return to clients and
integration into the community.

31. How will this business idea,
this MacCool’s social enterprise,
survive ?

33. ‘Tourism – the last marketable resource in
the globe. They can move your industries
to the far east but they can’t move your
landscape.’
D. Arthur Mitchell.
Mourne Heritage Trust..

34. S. D o n a r d a n d C o . L . M a c D e r r y a n d C o . L . E r n e a n d C o .
R . M a g h a n d C o . O . M a g h a n d C o . F .M a c C o o l a n d C o .
Possible replications ??!!

35. 3. Working with
The University of Ulster

38. Giving and Receiving

39. Many thoughts about
future collaboration

40. It’s great to work together

41. Thank You