A day with Step by Step
SBS participants get involved in woodland activities, maintenance duties on site and have time and space to express themselves through various activities in a safe environment. Read along below to find out what a typical day looks like for a SBS participant this time of year.
Our Step by Step (SBS) service supports adults with moderate to severe additional and behavioural needs, with some individuals requiring one-to-one support. The intervention we provide is high quality, purposeful activity for adults who have found themselves marginalised due to their disability.
“Upon arrival at the Green Light Trust, participants can make a drink and socialise; having conversation, reading books, doing a jigsaw puzzle is some of the things which may be done.
Next, we have our morning activities, and this time of year consists of setting up the pump to our water well, filling watering cans with it and watering all our plants and vegetables which are grown to sell on our stall by the road, where the money made goes back in to Step by Step to purchase more seeds and equipment.
Afterwards, we come back inside for a break, enjoying fruit, a biscuit, and a drink before we head on out for a walk around Golden Wood, which is adjacent to our site. This walk consists of walking along meadows and through a woodland, stopping to take in the nature around us, to do stretching exercises led by participants, and to play games such as duck, duck, goose, and hide and seek, before we walk back for lunch.
In the afternoon, we have a mixture of activities which can differ day-by-day. We may plant seeds to grow vegetables, weed the path areas and vegetables beds, scythe the long grasses on our site, paint pictures, do woodwork (making spatulas, bird boxes, stools and more), and many other different things.
Participants can learn new skills through various activities, building upon their independence. We even go off-site in our minivan to shop for supplies, or to the recycling centre, and some participants spend time in our ancient woodland on the other side of the village where they will help to manage the woodland, coppicing, learn about the nature around us, and take on personal projects. Recently, a participant made a table for his garden, and another is currently making a stool to gift to their nanna.”
