2025/26 Training Programme

Our 2025/26 training programme began in March 2025 and is now at an end with the graduation of this years trainees on the 3rd of March 2026.  All the trainees have worked very hard and all completed their assessments on time.  They have gained skills in customer service, health and safety, using the cash register, taking payments by debit/credit card, dealing with customers, basic work skills and photography.

See the gallery below for some pictures from the graduation ceremony.

We will commence recruitment for the 2027/27 training programme in May 2026.  Please contact us in April on 0131 553 7016 if you are interested or you can use the contact form on our website.

Our Training Programme
 
The All Together Edinburgh charity shop creates an excellent, person-centred training and learning environment for people with learning disabilities.   
 
Candidates can enrol in either the Ready for Retail Award (5 units) or learn individual units in the Skills Accreditation Programme. The Ready for Retail is on the SCQF framework and offers units such as Basic Work Skills, Customer Care, Health and Safety, Recycling, Interview Techniques, Stock and Display and Operating a Cash Register, 
 
The Skills Accreditation Programme offers a number of units covering life, skills for work and skills for leisure. Units chosen are based on the Service User’s chosen activity/experience/skill. Each unit has a different timescale ranging from 30 weeks to a year in which to complete the unit. 

The trainee will be assessed 3 times throughout the duration of the unit and this will be carried out by trained All Together Edinburgh assessors with the support of a training consultant at Borders College. 
 
​ Trainees are presented with their certificates at a graduation ceremony at the end of their training course and given support to move on to the next step of their journey.
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