About us

We aim to provide the best dedicated care, support and experience, to enrich everyday lives, and to allow people to live their best life.

We support adults with learning disabilities who are creative and willing to learn new skills in metalwork and woodwork. Essentially, we are ‘upcyclers’, making new things out of old! We use steel rods, sheet metal, old horseshoes, cutlery and pallet-wood.

The products we make range from Halloween pumpkins, garden ornaments, gates and railings, to picket fencing, insect boxes, garden trugs and keepsakes. Everything is well finished. We take a pride in what we make, and we sell many of our products at craft markets and on our open days at Maesbury Metals.

Maesbury Metals is located within close proximity of Oswestry town centre. The premises consist of three units which make up our workshop on the industrial estate. As well as working on site we work with lots of people/businesses in the community.

Nine service users attend Maesbury Metals, learning new skills and developing old ones.

The activities available for the service users are both within the community and on-site at Maesbury Metals. The programme is informal and regularly changing. However, the ethos is personalised towards everyone. Service users are assisted and supported to plan and be fully involved in all choices and decisions affecting them.

The following are examples of the varied activities available:

• Welding skills
• Woodworking skills
• Arts and crafts
• Mosaicking
• Social skills for work
• Social groups
• Community access activities, eg cinema and canal trips 
• Walking group
• Health and wellbeing
• Upcycling
• Cooking/healthy eating
• Chat group / service user meetings
• Photography
• Community projects

The service users who attend Maesbury Metals are encouraged to be mutually supportive of each other and also to be as independent as possible, including being involved in their own self advocacy. Service users fully participate in the day-to-day running of Maesbury Metals regularly meeting together to plan future events.

The staff team at Maesbury Metals are highly experienced in all areas of adult learning, disability care and workshop related skills. We aim to meet the health and social care demands required daily. The staff aim is to be approachable and to regularly liaise with parents and carers.

Maesbury Metals provides a happy relaxed environment for the service users, and visitors are always welcome.