Disabled employees' co-operative receives funding

22nd June 2010

A joinery co-operative in York that intends to provide jobs for ten disabled employees in the city has received a cash injection in the form of donations and orders for products to the tune of over £10,000.

The York Disabled Workers Co-operative was brought into being last month by the GMB union and staff at a closed Remploy factory and has been given almost £11,000 for its work in creating bat boxes, rabbit hutches and planters, the York Press reports.

"As soon as the lease is signed we should be in within a week and in production by early August. Things are moving forward," founding member John Wilson continued.

Once operations are up and running, garden furniture and pet homes will be produced and interviews are being held this week to take on a joiner.

Meanwhile, Remploy itself has been helping disabled employees in Yorkshire find work, securing 893 positions in 2009 - a climb of 19 per cent on the previous year.

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