Parental Education Growth Support (PEGS) is a relatively new organisation that works from Shrewsbury. It aims to provide therapeutic, practical and emotional support, and run effective programmes and training that raise awareness and understanding about child to parent abuse. PEGS offers one-to-one emotional and practical support to parents, carers and guardians who are living with […]
This charity supports around 150 young asylum seekers and refugees across Norfolk – with a large proportion aged between 18 and 25. Many of the young people arrived as Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and have little family or other support, and some young adults are in shared accommodation that has been made available for asylum […]
The Linda Tremble Foundation, which has recently rebranded as Supported, aims to provide access to community based group support for people with an eating disorder and their families. It works across different areas of Scotland through running support groups, and is based near the town of Cupar in Fife. Supported also provides carers with training […]
This charity seeks to support and enhance the companionship and bond between people and their pets. It operates from Newmarket and covers West Suffolk. The work includes practical help for vulnerable or isolated people to manage their existing pets; visits from volunteers with a pet to lonely older people who are missing animal companionship; and […]
Here for Good is a charity that operates nationally, aiming to provide free high-quality immigration services to vulnerable EU, EEA and Swiss nationals and their families. It offers on-line advice and resources, an advocacy and casework service, phoneline and email support, and runs regular outreach events. The Foundation has awarded funding of £10,000 towards Here […]
The idea of The Friendly Bench began in 2018, and was first set up in Bottesford, a small village in Leicestershire. It response to growing social isolation and loneliness of older people in the village, local people came up with the idea of a safe, accessible, mini community garden with integrated seating. The Friendly Bench […]
SWAP is based in Halifax, and offers a service to offenders leaving prison. It works in close partnership with a range of other agencies, including supporting housing services that house the offenders it supports in a block of flats. SWAP assists with resettlement on release, through advice, practical help, mental health support, social activities, and […]
DEED is a charitable company that works to tackle poverty, injustice and inequality and works with marginalised groups and local communities in Dorset. It runs training and educational workshops, and also specific project based around particular issues, such as around faith and ethnicity. At the June 2020 meeting, Allen Lane offered funding of £6,000 that […]
Silverline Memories aims to relieve the social isolation and loneliness experienced by people living with dementia and their carers. It works to provide support that enables people to live life to the full, and helps people with dementia to find joy and to share in meaningful activities and clubs. The charity operates in Newcastle upon […]
Homeplus Northern Ireland works in Belfast, and assists refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who are destitute and/or homeless. It offers a drop-in and advice centre during daytimes, and an outreach service every night of the year for rough sleepers and people who are homeless. As well as practical support, Homeplus NI helps with advice and […]