Employment minister Margaret Hodge was visiting staff at Oxford's Pathway Workshop today.
The workshop, in Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, provides jobs for people who might struggle in a "conventional" workplace.
Staff at the workshop make everything from bird tables to garden benches.
The workshop began in its earliest form 25 years ago, when Eric Johnson, the then owner of RJ Johnson & Co, Cowley builders merchants, provided employment for disabled people in his bagging and packing department.
* See tomorrow's Oxford Mail for a full report.
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