Working in partnership with FareShare UK, FareShare Midlands is the largest food redistribution charity in the region, feeding over 80,000 people every week. We receive surplus food into our network of warehouses where it is sorted, stored and shared with around 800 charities and community groups. These members turn the food into delicious nutritious meals, affordable shopping and food parcels. As well as food, our members provide other vital services to people living in food poverty. In addition, our Employability programmes offer training, work experience and interviews to people who are struggling to find employment or re-enter the workforce.
Harborough District Children and Young People’s Charity (www.hcyc.org.uk) is focused on delivering high quality play and youth work provision across Harborough District. We were formed to respond to the needs of children and young people from isolated and disadvantaged communities and provide a range of youth services that are free at point of contact, including youth clubs within villages, on Traveller sites or for Young Carers, a youth written magazine and website (www.speakout.org.uk), and mentoring. Quality provision which upholds and supports the rights of children and young people is the cornerstone of our work.
Established in 2011, Health Link Services (UK) is a growing Accredited Social Enterprise Training provider which delivers tailor made bespoke short courses or longer-term training programs. Our company is accredited with the Advantage Independent Accreditation in Learning. We are a member of Association of Health Care Trainers (AoHT), and we also work in partnership with De Montfort University in Leicester (UK). Health Link Services (UK) works with individuals from different communities, community organisations and different companies registered in Health and Social Care.
The Trust provides free advice to clients on matters such as welfare benefits, debt, housing and employment. The team work closely with Oadby & Wigston PCN, and the local foodbanks.
An inclusive, person centered approach to holistic wellbeing.
A range of empowering, solution focused, mindful programs, providing individuals with support for their mental wellbeing (both group & 1-1)
Our range of self care and self development programs, meet each individual at their own unique starting point.
All programs are delivered with passion and vision, motivating individuals to develop lifelong coping techniques & skills to empower them to actively work towards autonomy.
Long term support to all members, through our online group.
Benefiting individual wellbeing and that of their families and the wider community.
Highfields Centre is located in the metaphorical and physical heart of a vibrant and diverse community in Leicester. The centre and its co-located partner agencies provide a varied range of community educational and developmental services to an area of inner-city Leicester which has some of the most structurally disadvantaged and financially poorest communities in Britain.
HC has a long and prestigious track record of developing and delivering a wide range of community focused activities, including academic, vocational, and first rung learning courses, cultural events and sports and youth work activities for well over 40 years.
Home-Start South Leicestershire is a small independent charity operating across Harborough District in South Leicestershire. We are part of the federated model supported by the national charity Home-Start UK, which governs branding use and quality monitoring. The help we provide aims to prevent family breakdown caused by the multiple impact of factors such as poor self-esteem and low confidence, mental illness, physical ill health and disabilities, or financial difficulties, which are all further compounded by the parental responsibilities, tasks and skills involved with bringing up children.
Jamila’s Legacy is a non-profit organisation that offers advice, advocacy, support, a listening service, self-care activities and training to individuals interested in maintaining their own mental health well-being and supporting others.
Jamila’s Legacy has been bringing people together to increase mental health awareness and deepen understanding since 2015. We have been working at a community and grassroots level, engaging with ethnic minority communities, and have developed an understanding of their needs, barriers and challenges.
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
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.
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