Avalon aims to identify new business opportunities to employ customers across the region, and also support customers who wish to develop their own businesses to become Sole Traders. As a not-for-profit company Limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity, Avalon ploughs all its surplus back into the organisation. The Innovations Hub was set up in 2008 to look at developing opportunities for people to gain training and supported employment. Michelangelo’s Mates was the first of these and provides people with the opportunity to train as painters and decorators. It’s sister enterprise, The Garden Gang started in august 2010 to provide a gardening service employing people with learning disabilities and working for older and disabled people in the East North East area of Leeds Picasso’s Pals is based on the Michelangelo’s Mates concept and is available to other housing maintenance organisations wishing to further develop their community engagement work. The House of Avalon is a vintage clothes and coffee shop in York providing training and supported employment in retailing and in a café environment. The Innovations Hub can provide all the support an individual needs to develop their business ideas as well as being open to new ideas for more Social Enterprises.

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