Adding skills with the help of free Workplace Numeracy Multiply Dorset offers a range of highly flexible numeracy courses for schools, businesses, the self-employed, people with special needs or learning disabilities and speakers of English as an additional language.
Poole Waste Not Want Not (PWNWN) is already seeing how Multiply can support its staff and customers.
PWNWN supports vulnerable people and low-income families through its vibrant members social supermarket and community coffee shop, based in the High Street. Ben Rampley, 28, is a valued member of the PWNWN team and has been attending Multiply Dorset’s Workplace Numeracy course, with great results.Ben said: “I have trouble with numbers and things like telling the time and Jo the tutor has been really helping me. “I can now check dates on food and milk we have in the café and understand my fitness watch better, so I know when I need to be at work and when it’s time for my lunch break to start or end.
“I wash up and help clear tables and fill up shelves and I want to be able to work on the till too”.
“Jo is very kind, and I am in a small group, so I don’t feel rushed. She is making me feel much more confident.”
Erika Sloper is Charity Project Manager at PWNWN.
She said: “Ben has come on so much since joining the Multiply class.
The sessions are practical and designed specifically for people in the workplace. They are also at his own pace and completely tailored to learners’ needs.
Ben is now the first to tell me if something is getting close to its use by date! and his rising confidence is really opening him up to learning new skills.
“He is one of two members of staff who are already benefiting from Multiply and we hope to use the scheme more in the future and also introduce some of our customers to how other Multiply courses in things like spending, saving and
budgeting might help them too.”
Workplace Numeracy is one of a range of FREE numeracy, maths and money skills workshops offered by Skills & Learning in Dorset to individuals, businesses and organisations.