Your life, your way
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Supporting people to live their life, their way
We support people with learning disabilities, autism, mental ill-health, physical disabilities, and other complex needs to live great lives as independently as possible.
We are Affinity Trust.
What we do
We support people in their own home or through community-based opportunities to achieve their goals and aspirations.
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Where we work
Affinity Trust is a trusted provider in communities in England and in Scotland and we are expanding to support more people in new places.
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Become an Affinity Trust Support Worker
We are looking for people who are all about possibilities to join our team. Who can see how to support someone in a way that is meaningful. Who can help people feel independent and encouraged; ambitious and supported. Courageous and reassured. Join us and become a support worker – what can you make possible?
Supporting us
You can be all about possibilities too, by supporting us to support people. Find out ways that you can get involved. Please help us make it possible to support one more person today.
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Englefield Garden Centre
Englefield Garden Centre is where we make it possible for people with support needs to learn work skills in a horticultural environment. Our workshops support people to be part of a team, produce items for sale like hanging baskets and planters, and learn how to care for the plants. Englefield is a not-for-profit social enterprise selling high quality plants, seeds and sundries in our beautiful venue in Berkshire.
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About the author
Leo Sowerby
Chief Executive
Leo qualified as a social worker and started his career in the public sector, moving into the not-for-profit sector in the 1980s.
He then held senior roles with the Richmond Fellowship, Disability Action Yorkshire, Mencap and Mind, before joining Affinity Trust as Chief Executive in 2006.
When Leo joined Affinity Trust, we were known by our original name of the Thames and Chiltern Trust. Under Leo’s leadership, the organisation rebranded as Affinity Trust and has since increased the number of people it supports from around 400 in 2006 to more than 900 in 2020.
Over the same period, our annual income rose from £11m to over £50m. We now work in 34 local authority areas across England and Scotland.
Leo is a keen runner; in both 2017 and 2018 he completed the Great North Run, raising money for some of our local services.