The project at Easton on the Hill, has grown to nearly three times as many young adults now being involved than a year ago.
A project run by young people with Downs has celebrated its first birthday. Birch Tree Café which is in part of old Easton Garford School at Easton on the Hill has a café front of house, but also teaches life skills, food preparation and hopes to encourage independent living for some of its members. It has an an outside area including a greenhouse, and there are ambitions to have a workshop in the future. Local companies have also supported the £250,000 project, including Screwfix and Cummins, who paid for new gates as well as supporting other parts of the outside area. Maggie Scott, Chair of T21 who run the project looks back at the past year:

George's Food Hub open
Police investigate van thefts
Fifty years of Rutland Water
Local people awarded New Year's Honours
Work to start on hospital entrance
Second Helpings open today
Weekend sports round up
Men jailed for theft of plant equipment
Tributes are being paid to Stewart Francis
Team GB swimmer reopens the gym at Meres Leisure Centre
Appeal for witnesses to accident