Hft Flintshire

Our work

Hft entered into a partnership with Flintshire County Council at the end of 2017, to deliver and develop Day and Work opportunities for adults with a learning disability.

The service provides support to people with a range of needs and goals. It’s made up of delivery models known collectively as ‘Day Opportunities’.

Day Services

Hwb Cyfle is a multi-million pound purpose built day service in Queensferry, opened in 2019, and designed to meet the needs of people with profound and multiple disabilities. We support around 50-60 people per day across five activity spaces, including a workshop space, kitchen and multi-use rooms. The service has a state of the art sensory room, multiple adapted bathrooms, a changing places toilet, assisted bath, sensory garden and a café. The service provides safe meaningful activities with people attending from half a day to five days per week.

Work options

We provide support for young people and adults to gain employment opportunities within their local communities. We do this through three main routes:

• Supported employment – our employability coaches work closely with the people we support to identify their aspirations, learning needs, individual skills, former experiences and job preferences. They use this information to support people to build experience and their CVs, apply for jobs, attend interviews and ultimately gain sustainable employment. When in work, our coaches support people with travel training, inductions and worksite training, and help the employer with reasonable adjustments. They will also provide long-term support to the employer and the person supported. Find out more about our supported employment opportunities.
• Supported volunteering – As with supported employment our team of employability coaches will support people to find and maintain long term volunteering opportunities with third sector or public organisations. These opportunities often lead on to paid employment.
• Supported internships – We work in partnership with ClwydAlyn Housing Association and Flintshire County Council to provide a year long internship programme for young people (18-26), to support their journey into work. Based in Flint within an extra care scheme, each intern has three placements over the course of the year where they work alongside a paid member of staff to learn skills and gain experience. They are supported by a full time employability coach and a tutor, who teaches L2 and L3 employability qualifications. Find out more about our supported internships.

Cymuned Connect

Cymuned Connect is a social group for learning disabled and autistic adults in North Wales. We’re based in Flintshire, and mainly host events here. But we also have events in the Wrexham, Denbighshire and Chester areas. The aim of our group is to help our members to get out into their local communities, try new things, and make friends in a welcoming, safe environment.

Terri, our Community Coordinator, hosts around three face-to-face social events and three virtual events every week.

Cymuned Connect North Wales