Formed in 2007, Leicester City in the Community are one of the official charities of Leicester City Football Club.
Funded by the Premier League Charitable Fund (PLCF), the Premier League Professional Footballers’ Association Community Fund (PL PFA) and other local and national funders, our activities include education, community, and football development opportunities for individuals, groups and communities across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
To help positively engage our diverse communities, we continue to grow our staff team through six core values – we engage, inspire, and empower through togetherness, respect, and pride.
Our mission is to welcome asylum seekers and refugees in and around Leicester, and support them to rebuild their lives, develop their skills and feel part of the community. We offer a range of vital services and wider enrichment opportunities to asylum seekers and refugees: a central Hub with welcome, support services and lunch; ESOL classes; family activities; plus football and sewing/knitting sessions. Our New Evidence Search Team helps those, whose asylum claims have been rejected, to find new evidence for an appeal. We work in partnership with many other charities and organisations.
The LCPCF is a Dfe funded forum representing the City of Leicester within the National Network of Parent Carers Forums for parent carers of SEND children and young people. LCPCF works with the LA, EHC providers and third-sector organisations to improve services in Leicester City. We will work with parents and carers of children 0-25years, the Local Authority and the NNPCF regionally and nationally to assess, develop, improve, or maintain those services.
Leicester Community Links cic is a not for profit community interest company set up in March 2020, we are based in the Belgrave area of Leicester. Our projects focus on promoting wellbeing, in particular increasing physical activity and creating greater awareness around mental health. We aim to deliver our projects in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Leicester Musical Memory Box are a non-profit organisation promoting the use of music, singing and personalised playlists to enhance health and well-being to both the English speaking and South Asian communities. Our work is primarily for those affected by dementia, including their carers in group settings in and around Leicestershire and also online. We can also offer home visits and work with those with other health conditions who would benefit.
Providing Therapeutic support for female survivors aged 13+ who are survivors of Rape, Sexual Violence and Abuse.
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 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.
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