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Search results for The West Midlands region

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  • Cerebral Palsy Midlands

    We are a charity that supports people with cerebral palsy. We offer speech and language therapy and physiotherapy, as well as educational classes at the centre. We have a welfare dept which offers advice advocacy services and home visits. We are a user led organisation.

  • Changing Our Lives

    Self Advocacy a organisation led by people with learning disabilities. Activities include: Changing young lives Equal voices Making our voices heard Quality of health principles Safe places Peoples parliament Spotlight Training Team Whole of life standards.

  • Circles Network

    Circles Network is a national voluntary based organization based around the key principles of Inclusion and Person Centred Planning approaches. We provide unique personal support for people who are in danger of becoming socially excluded, or who are suffering the consequences of prior segregation and discrimination. We use the tools of Person Centred Planning to facilitate inclusion in the community, principally through the setting up of Circles of Support and through our individual projects

  • Community Foundation

    Our Mission Community Foundation is a grassroots voluntary organisation supporting people in inner city areas to change their lives by improving their conditions and creating opportunities for people to reach their full potential. They are a not for profit organisation. Community Foundation aims: - to encourage civic participation of marginalised and hard to reach communities and provide education and training to build capacity of individuals and organisations to improve themselves, their organisation and their community. - develop projects and services to address underlining issues of social exclusion, homelessness, health inequality, unemployment and under achievement. - develop targeted provisions to improve community safety, prevent anti social behaviour, domestic violence, drug/alcohol abuse and improve community cohesion and tolerance within marginalised and hard to reach communities. - provide a range of social, education and recreational services for hard to reach communities.

  • Community Resource Information Service

    CRIS was established in 1980 to be a demand-led resource to serve the communities of West Midlands. We work at a grassroots level supporting diverse and disadvantaged communities and individuals to bring about positive change. CRIS is about building community cohesion by bringing people together around shared common interests to enable them to have a voice in the decision-making processes that directly affect their lives. CRIS provides capacity building training including leadership skills, organisational management and development, fundraising and financial management, auditing services as well as personal development and employment services. We also undertake research and organise conferences and events on issues of importance for the communities we work with. CRIS also works intensively with migrant and refugee communities to facilitate their integration with wider community and enable their grass-roots organisations to become efficient and sustainable.

    This organisation is dormant.

  • Crisis Point

    The charity was founded in 2000; it has been working as with victims of sexual crime since 2000, delivering specialist support. Crisis Point became a registered charity and company in 2004. Crisis Point is based in Walsall with additional offices in Wolverhampton. In 2003, Crisis Point pioneered the fast track STI screening system that now sits as best practice and guidance for developing new, and existing SARCs. In 2004, Crisis Point founded the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in Walsall, developed a tri-partite with West Midlands Police and NHS/PCT Walsall to provide SARC services. Crisis Point was the managing agency until March 2006, delivering on call and on site crisis workers, ISVA support, and therapeutic counselling. In 2005, a clinical counselling centre was founded in Walsall by Crisis Point to provide bespoke psychotherapeutic counselling for victims of sexual crime. Additionally, the clinical counselling centre provided a real solution to transference suffered by SARC clients when returning for therapy following the support to court procedure and outcome. In 2011, the charity located to modern fully DDA compliant premises. The services and premises continue to be available to all across the West Midlands.

  • Edas Foundation

    EDAS Foundation is a registered charity based in the North West of Birmingham. We provide a range of services across Birmingham specialising in social welfare, advice and advocacy, informal education and training, and the advancement of local communities. Essentially we work to build knowledge and skills to help our communities to thrive. As a grass roots organisation we maintain a strong link between specialist local knowledge and the need to be an efficient and innovative service provider.

    This organisation is dormant.

  • Focus Birmingham

    Focus Birmingham exists to ensure that individuals with visual impairments and other disabilities are fully supported in living their lives independently and to the full. Whether they are working with someone who has been blind since birth or someone who is only now dealing with the onset of a visual impairment, they offer a range of services that are appropriate to the specific needs of the individual. These might involve the early recognition of a potential problem and preventative measures to avoid the development of that problem. Or they might provide counselling services to allow someone to come to terms with the changes to their life and to move forward positively. Through their enablement activity, they can provide aids to vision that allow people to resume areas of their lives that they thought were lost to them. Based in Harborne Focus Birmingham also have outreach facilities across the city. Each year, they work with 7,000 people across all ages and cultural backgrounds to support them in living independent and fulfilling lives.

  • Groundwork West Midlands

    Groundwork provide training and create jobs, reduce energy and waste, reconnect people with nature and transform whole whole neighbourhoods. Step by step Groundwork go on changing places and changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential. Groundwork is currently delivering a project in Tipton called the Cracker, working on a local green space (called the Cracker).Beneficiaries are people suffering from drugs and alchohol dependency. The work encourages physical activity in an outdoor setting, as well as the wellbeing benefits of being outdoors.

  • Health Education Lifeskills Project (HELP)

    HELP aims to equip, empower and release the full potential of the individual child at risk by engaging them in educational recreational activities specially designed to meet individual needs.

    This organisation is dormant.

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