VCSE Alliance Directory
Search through the VCSE Alliance Directory to find VCSE organisations’ information and contact details.
Our services are designed to help an individual and their families with support that touches every part of their lives. Our one stop shop starts with a full diagnostic of the family needs and aspirations and our advisers will work on a one to one basis to help these families plan and expedite their solutions. This includes advice and support to cover:
• Employment
• Education
• Health and wellbeing
• Benefits
• Housing
• Training
• Liaison activities
• Advocacy for personal and employment matters
• Immigration issues
LRCF sets up and runs grant-giving funds for local families, individuals, companies and agencies, and the public sector. We specialise in giving grant to local charitable, voluntary and community groups meeting local needs. We have a range of grant programmes to apply for throughout the year.
We are part of a national charity which designs and produces custom made devices for people with disabilities, where no commercial equipment is available. Our devices enable people to gain more independence and live a more fulfilled life. Our service is free of charge and anyone can ask for our help.
We develop and deliver ,creative partnership working between young people, schools, community groups , public and business sector . We focus on working with community groups and young people who are vulnerable and isolated. We have a strong fcous on supporting care experience young people, young people who are NEET and young people caught up in youth justice system. We put a lot of emphasis on the voice and lived experience of young people and community groups we work with, driving our work.
Leicestershire GATE is the only not for profit organisation working with Traveller and Gypsy communities across LLR. We provide a range of advocacy and support aiming to ensure that the specific needs, traditions and cultures of the most marginalised communities in Britain are understood by external statutory and VCS organisations. We create a link between the communities and agencies, we ensure that both parties have a deeper understanding of each other and we provide the in depth support needed to community members to improve their daily lives.
Leicestershire Leicester and Rutland Headway is a charity providing support and services to local people following an acquired or traumatic brain injury and their families. A brain injury can happen to anyone at any stage in their life with causes including (but not limited to) stroke, falls, assaults, road traffic collisions, illness and infection. Brain injuries affect every aspect of a persons life and can have a life long impact.
We are the accepted parent carer forum for Leicestershire. A parent carer led organisation for families of children and young people with additional or special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who live or access services in Leicestershire. We work to gather the parent carer voice through surveys, meetings, social media, and projects with strategic partners, share collective lived experiences, concerns, views, and solutions of parent carer members.
To build skills, confidence, and teamwork of parent carers so that together we raise awareness of a wide range of children and family’s needs.
Leicestershire Shared Reading is a voluntary organisation, working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council's library service to support a thriving network of ‘Make Friends, with a Book’ shared reading groups.
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The groups, led by volunteer Reader Leaders, meet weekly either via Zoom or in person at public libraries around the county and are open to anyone to drop in and sit for a while, listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
The relief of financial hardship amongst people in Leicester city, Leicestershire and the surrounding area or in other parts of the United Kingdom by: a) providing emergency food, essential toiletries, and household items to individuals and families in need and/or for distribution by charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty b) such other means, including the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory service. c) Provide training in relation to the effective running of a charity involved in food poverty, large scale distribution of essential items, working with volunteers and advisory agencies.
The Leicester Tigers Foundation utilises the power and expertise within Leicester Tigers Rugby Club to help make a positive difference to the lives and opportunities of 1000's of individuals and groups every year.
With an ever increasing footprint the Foundation through its multiple delivery programmes reaches further and wider every year thanks to the great support from its patrons and the Tigers fan base.
The focus of the foundation is driven by it's core values helping others across five key areas, Disability in Sport, Community Cohesion, Health, and Education
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