A small community project in the heart of Saffron Lane Estate. We offer welfare benefits advice, a debt counselling service and support to deal with other issues that affect those in our neighbourhood. With links to a local environmental project where learning and volunteering opportunites are available and a young persons activity project, we aim to
We are a City Farm, with over 100 animals, Open to the public everyday, we also have school visitis many of which are speicial need students, the farm has staff but with out our many volunteers we could not work.
Big Difference Company are a charity that produce arts festivals and projects that improve wellbeing across the UK. It is the charity responsible for the hugely successful Leicester Comedy Festival & The UK Kids' Comedy Festival which run annually in February across Leicestershire and beyond. We use our knowledge and expertise to offer bespoke responses to our partners at the heart of our community through our network of comedians, performers and cultural practitioners to tackle challenging subjects and break down barriers while delivering serious messages.
St. Philip’s Centre brings people together, challenges assumptions and educates through exciting, informative and interactive programmes. We promote mutual interfaith relationships and understanding to communities and organisations. Since our foundation, we have led efforts to ensure religion and belief is harnessed for the good of all. Our programmes for schools are consistently overbooked and our track record in delivering high-quality training to communities, public sector organisations and across the third sector is second to none. We have educated and engaged thousands of people – from school children to the Police, Fire Services, Armed Forces and other workplaces.
The Rutland Foodbank is a registered charity in England & Wales Number 1158460. It is part of the wider Trussell Trust Network
Rutland Foodbank's Objective
.. the prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship of people living in Rutland and neighbouring districts by providing food and other items and services, information. Advice, education and supporting in such other ways as the trustees shall from time to time see fit (July 2014)
At ZamZam Unlimited Possibilities CIC, we work cooperatively and creatively with young leaders, community groups , and organisations. We provide bespoke cultural workshops and life skills to help young leaders succeed outside the classroom, diminish stereotypes between communities, and strengthen community cohesion. The workshops provide life skills, knowledge, and cultural education to reduce harmful stereotypes across communities in a unique, innovative, and accessible manner.
24/7 Helping Hands Service is a small domiciliary care provider based in Leicester providing care to adults with dementia, autism, physical and mental disabilities and other health conditions. We provide personal care, medication assistance, meal preparation and much more, all in the comfort of our service users’ homes.
Voluntary Action Rutland (VAR) has been running our community transport and social car scheme continuously for over 43 years. We regularly cover 150,000 miles of driving, undertaking thousands of separate journeys, to hospitals and appointments in the wider LLR area. We also provide transport and community vehicles for shorter trips, shopping and social gatherings throughout the county and beyond.
Our voluntary and community transport offering is always in need of volunteers!
We are a sports & wellbeing CIC who deliver fitness classes for over 50s, a learning disabilities sports club, a community football club, Haf school holiday program, DofE Bronze award delivers for those from low income areasWe aim to support getting communities and groups active with the primarily aim to help have benefits to people's health and wellbeing using sports and social activities as the driving force of that.
Men Also Do Matter2 (MADM2) is a community group working with Black men through advocacy and support. We believe that happy families are the foundation for safer communities and a harmonious society – our entry point is supporting Black men in their life struggles which are seldom talked about. We advise and support men through life’s most difficult moments, including conciliation for couples facing relationship challenges and families facing disintegration. We provide formal and informal support, grounded in our understanding of the diverse cultural complexities at play, while creating pathways for referrals to other support Agencies.









