CheckIn Works and Giraffe Trading offer personal support, work experience and vocational and employability training. Placements are provided through their Perth-based social enterprise that can assist individuals with significant barriers to entering a work environment. The organisation helps individuals to make the steps towards work, mainstream volunteering or onto other college or sector courses that will help develop their careers further.

Work experience placements are currently available in catering & hospitality with the addition of outdoor and other learning activities that focus on socialisation and inclusion. The provision of accredited training is offered in-house through a virtual platform, with staff support. Trainees progress through a journey of work, life and learning with the emphasis on building work skills, confidence and inclusion

The service is based over three venues in Perth –

• Giraffe Café and Training kitchen on South Street, open 9:30 to 4:30 Monday to Saturday – hospitality, retail and customer service training, as well as developing cooking skills.
• Riverview House in Friarton – our main office, where training, meetings and some activities take place.
• The Giraffe Community Kitchen – a separate production unit in Friarton for the making of community meals and Giraffe at home meals. Cooking and production skills on a larger scale (this is still being completed and we should be in for the end of 2022)