Businesses that have employees who have struggled during Covid can access free support from The Cart Shed. The Cart Shed has funding to help those who have found it hard returning to the workplace after being furloughed, took on too much having remained at work, found working from home stressful, suffered a bereavement, or are in a role threatened with redundancy.
Participants will spend a day a week, for four weeks, at the Cart Shed; taking part in enriching and engaging woodland activities. Sessions will be run by tutors, occupational therapists and mental health practitioners to help build back confidence, address wellbeing, identify barriers to skills development and explore other issues that might be making work or life challenging.
The Covid recovery sessions could also be beneficial to employers who are having to make employees redundant due to Covid. The Cart Shed uses a strengths-based programme to help manage the emotional impact of redundancy so they can work with both the employer and employee to support the successful transition to alternative employment or training.