We use innovative new approaches to overcome enduring barriers in the workplace for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental ill health. CheckIn works with individuals in a highly personal and purposeful way to prepare them for work and engages widely with other local partners.
Community Options is a registered charity, specialising in services for people with mental-health needs. Our mission is to enable people with mental health needs to work towards recovery. We currently deliver services and provide support across London and the South East.
Our aim is to provide support and services for older people throughout the Test Valley. We offer:
We aim to improve the mind, body and spirit of the underprivileged communities & individuals using various initiatives in developing countries. We carry out projects which include medical care for eye related problems, prosthetic limb replacement, raise road safety awareness. www.ekomcharity.co.uk
Confide Counselling Services provides quality low-fee counselling services to people who need support with problems such as depression, anxiety, low-confidence, bereavement, stress, trauma, relationship difficulties, abuse or work-place issues. Confide has been providing counselling in the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin area for over 25 years. Our service is accredited by the BACP which provides assurance that we provide high quality, clinically effective services. All of our therapists are highly trained and the majority of them are volunteers, this means that we can make a huge difference with a small amount of funding - every penny helps to support people experiencing mental health difficulty. Charity No: 1156743 Find out more Website http://www.confide.org.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/confidecounselling/
Positive Steps was established in 1989, it is a care and support organisation dealing with vulnerable people In Scotland and internationally. Your donation makes a huge difference and allows it to continue to offer real people real solutions.
The Citizens Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.
Helping vulnerable people empower themselves through long-term, sustainable solutions. Our projects follow three themes: -Education -Health & Wellbeing -Strengthening Communities Find out more at: www.flamingofoundation.org
Helping to relieve mental and physical suffering from bereavement or loss by the provision of counselling and support.
L.A.T.C.H Listening And Talking Can help is a vital community support Charity based in Northern Ireland. LATCH is dedicated to enhancing the lives of young people, creating a better understanding of the core role mental health plays in personal well being to reduce levels of self harm and suicide.
Home-Start South West Kent supports families with at least one child under five years of age who are struggling to cope with stress and difficulties that are affecting their family life and the positive development of their children. Support is flexible and individually tailored to the family's needs and helps with many issues from postnatal depression through to relationship and family breakdown, child behavioural and development issues, multiple birth and many other situations. Trained and CRB checked volunteer parents offer practical and emotional support in the families' own homes on a weekly basis. Our Volunteer Preparation Course is Accredited and runs two or three times each year. Emotional support helps parents find ways to manage and resolve problems as well as providing supportive listening space for parents to offload. Practical support can include direct work with children to encourage positive development, opportunities to access community activities and budgeting, cooking, nutrition and home safety. Home-Start also offers support for families to work with other professionals such as Health Visitors and will also attend meetings with families to improve outcomes for the children and parents involved. We also run Parenting Courses. Families can be referred through a professional or can refer themselves directly.
Crossroads Care North Bucks & Milton Keynes is part of a national network of local charities providing support to carers and the people they care for. It offers a full range of services for all age groups, disabilities or health conditions, and of any frequency or duration.
Our aim is to provide support and services for older people throughout the Test Valley. We offer:
Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Mid Cheshire Samaritans support people in Mid Cheshire as well as throughout the country, with contact through telephone, email or visiting the brnach in Northwich.
CLEAR works with CYP aged between 3 – 18 years of age. We have recognised that this group represent the often unheard victims of abusive relationships, who do not meet the criteria for intervention provided by statutory bodies, either because their behaviors are not considered serious enough to require intervention, or more commonly, because the traumatic effects of their experiences go unrecognised. Without support, these CYP are at risk of developing low self-esteem, eating disorders, poor performance or attendance at school and other social and behavioral problems. Sadly, these CYP may carry the baggage of their past into their adult lives and thus the cycle of abuse is perpetuated. Through counseling we offer the CYP the experience of a healthy relationship. Changes take place in the way that the CYP is able to communicate, concentrate and develop a trusting, working relationship with the counsellor. These CYP flourish in the therapeutic setting and learn how to build safe relationships within their family and friendship circles. The CYP's general behaviors change as their confidence grows in themselves and in the life situation they are coping with. Group work with peers enables CYP to have some fun and experience some positive feelings and share their concerns and fears with others whom they can trust. Their involvement in the project and being heard by CLEAR reinforces their trust and self-belief. Working with their counsellors and peers helps to provide coping strategies for the CYP and non-abusing parent / carer. This provides them with the confidence to be supportive of others within and outside of the group. The groups also take part in days out and we are particularly keen to take advantage of Cornwall's fantastic environment as "The best classroom and the richest cupboard roofed only by the sky" and embracing the concept of eco-psychology to help where parents and children have become estranged through trauma or sexual abuse and domestic violence. Without support, it is recognised that CYP who have experienced abusive relationships are more likely to end up in similar situations themselves as adults. The coping strategies and development of self-esteem and valuation of self, helps CYP to break the cycle of abusive relationships and recognise and avoid dangerous situations. The development of understanding of self and what has happened to them encourages the CYP to take part in social activities, relationships and become re-integrated into their school and learning. CLEAR is the only child centred therapeutic service in Cornwall that can work with CYP who have been traumatised by either direct experience or witnessing abusive relationships. Clear offers individual therapy and group work for CYP, provided by BACP registered counselors who have undergone specialist training in child and adolescent therapy. CLEAR also offers support to the non-abusing carer both individually and with the child. It is the use of specifically trained counselors and the availability of group therapy that makes CLEAR unique. Additionally, 80% of the CLEAR management committee and project workers are professionals working in some capacity with vulnerable CYP in Cornwall.
WPF Therapy seeks to provide affordable counselling or psychotherapy for people who cannot find suitable NHS provision, and who cannot afford private therapy. The charity provides a wide range of counselling and psychotherapy including CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) on a sliding scale depending on income as well as a wide range of accredited training programmes
Dodi Development Initiative: (DoDI) is a UK registered grass roots charity set up to raise funds to help provide education and improve the health and opportunities of the people of Dodi Island, Lake Volta, Ghana. Our Aims: 1. Provide educational resources for the adults and children living on Dodi Island 2. Implement and support health care projects which aim to treat and prevent illness 3. Encourage development and self sustainability
Knowle West Health Association is a voluntary organisation aimed at promoting, protecting and preserving good health and wellbeing for, but not exclusively, local residents of Knowle West in Bristol.We offer a range of projects and services including our community kitchen, our allotment, footcare and friendship group.
Our aim is to promote better physical and mental health for anyone suffering with one or more of the 200 different types of arthritis and their carers, through a network of self-help and therapeutic groups; promoting education and raising awareness about arthritis.
Family Friends offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with children, in our local community.
We support the people of Swindon in ways beyond what we can offer through our standard SEQOL services. Our initiatives help support people’s wellbeing and to develop skills, e.g. the SEQOL Café, a place for people with dementia and their carers to meet, mutually support and explore their interests.
"Youthlife aims to improve the health & well being of children and young people who have experienced bereavement and loss".
Be Strong is a project and charity borne out of a passionate belief that a structured programme of physical training and mentoring support can offer drug addicts and habitual offenders the opportunity to take active control of their lifestyle to both improve their lives and add value to society.