Video transcripts
June's video
(Presenter speaking) "June has been supported by Turning Point for six years. Here she talks about her week."
"On a Monday I go to Hemel Hempstead, making jewellery. On a Tuesday I go to Northwick day centre. On a Wednesday I go to Sunnyside. On a Friday I go bowling. I make my own way there."
(Presenter speaking) "We asked June what she would tell people about living in a home supported by Turning Point."
"When new people want to come in, tell them it is a good home, tell them the staff is nice, tell them it is lovely and clean, and friendly."
(Presenter speaking) "We also asked June about her plans for the future"
"One day I’d like to move on into my own place where I can be independent - but I do need staff to help me to cook, I do need staff to help me."
(Presenter speaking) "June likes to get out and about and meet people. On Thursdays she works in a local hairdressers, here she tells us what she does"
"Polishing, dusting, putting overalls on people, on customers, sometimes making teas for them, if they ask me to and I get my hair done.
(Presenter speaking) We asked her what she likes best about working in the hairdressers
"Meeting other people, having a chat."
Leon's video
(Presenter speaking) "Leon has been supported by Turning Point for five years – we asked him what he thinks."
"Shall I describe it? Cosy, positive, good company."
(Presenter speaking) "And what does he enjoy?"
"I enjoy cooking at Sunnyside, I find it a good experience for when you get a job in the big world. I play the Wii game, computer. Keep fit and the disco one with the dancing thing on. Where you dance on the mat, you know where you dance? Do different movements. Keep fit mat, yeah."
(Presenter speaking) "We asked Leon what he had learned whilst being supported by Turning Point"
"It teaches you to be independent when you go out in the big world. The staff are good to me I am good to the staff, aren't I? My ambition is to move on, get a job, do all the chores in the flat. Get a new flat, get a nice girl to settle down with. You can see me getting married can’t you? (laughs)"
Esta's video
(Presenter speaking) "Esta has moved out of a Turning Point registered home and now lives independently in her own flat supported by Turning Point staff. We asked her what she liked about it."
"Well, I am happy being living at own flat, I want to be independently, I’m a grown up!
Erm, I had a keyworker, her name is Sylvia and she is a very very nice lady and she does help, a lot, with me, in my flat, she does now, and she did all the like vacuuming for me and I like doing that.
I like cooking, but I do. I do know how to make Toad in the Hole, Roast potatoes and chopped up tomatoes, I know how to make pasta bolognaise and garlic bread. I love cooking a lot!"
(Presenter speaking) "We asked Esta what she likes doing."
"I like bowling, I like pictures, or pub, spend time with my boyfriend"
(Presenter speaking) "And we asked Esta how she gets involved."
"We had a residents’ meeting as well, we are talking about activities. All about going out, or, what do you want to do? And we got lots of nice things."
Basil and Dotty's video
(Presenter speaking) "Basil has been supported by Turning Point for 3 years. We talked to his sister Dotty about his time at here."
"Social services suggested it, and it was a Turning Point in his life because he became more out-going, he had more things to do, and you noticed a change in him. A big, big change.
Again, it seemed as though it was the right decision for him to come to Turning Point. The facilities here are great, and Turning Point staff are wonderful. Here, particularly, they are so caring, and it is a home. It is not just a house, with people who have varying degrees of disability, it is a home, and they make it a home"
(Presenter speaking) "We asked Dotty how Basil gets involved."
"He is absolutely involved in everything and the staff involve him in everything. It’s gardening; it’s going out, answering the door bell, the telephone. He goes into the kitchen; he will try to help make tea. I have even heard that he will try and fill the washing machine, which is wonderful! Which is everyday things that everyday people do and that is really important. They help him to be independent, absolutely independent here.
He goes to out to eat, he goes to the pub, he goes to events, he’ll goes to the pictures he’ll go to the theatre. There is nothing that … It’s unstoppable, anything that he wants to do he can."
(Presenter speaking) "We asked Dotty what Basil can do now that he she never thought he would be able to do."
"Gardening! Round the back of the building, I don’t know if you have been round there, there is a little plot and I didn’t know that he did gardening, I had no idea. Last year … and there’s cabbages and he is just with his carer, or whatever you call it, his friend, there they were, gardening, pulling things, planting things. There are pictures of him in his garden and that seems to have really taken off."
(Presenter speaking) "And for his future?"
"For his future? To be happy to be contented, to enjoy life to the full really. He gets it here, he can enjoy life to the full."
(Presenter speaking) "We asked how the staff support Basil"
"Staff help Basil in many ways. They help him with his personal care, they help him with shopping. He does shopping for the house, he does his own shopping. They take him on buses, he goes on trains, which I think is becoming part of the community, then, you know and going out. Everything that he wants to be involved in he can be.
The pictures in the book down there from last year, when he went to Derby for that are absolutely amazing. He looked stunning, absolutely stunning, and he really enjoyed himself, he really did.
And that’s the staff helping him to enjoy something, (and they enjoy it too!) (laughs)"
Louise's video
(Presenter speaking) "Louise has been with Turning Point for just over a year we asked her what she has achieved in that time"
"My name is Louise Hales. I have lived here one year, nearly. I have achieved travelling on my own, independently. Taxi to railway to my mum’s, two buses and one train as well."
(Presenter speaking) "We asked her how she gets in involved in the house"
"I do like it here; I get involved, yeah. Cooking and cleaning and all that and going out yeah, shopping, yeah. I help doing the garden with one of the staff. It is a nice place, yeah"
(Presenter speaking) "We asked Louise if she would recommend Turning Point to someone else"
"I do like the staff, they are good, yeah, very good, they are (laughs)"