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St. Antony’s Centre
St Antony’s Centre provides front line Information, advice and guidance services to various community & faith groups, charities and employers across the North West. In addition, the centre is accredited training provider and currently holds contracts across the region to deliver predominantly Maths, English and ICT courses across a number of community venues, employers and partner locations.
Hope Street
Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.
We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.
Creativity Works Preston
The Creativity Works Preston Production Centre is based upon the Danish Production school model. CWP offers an alternative form of education to people of all ages who need or prefer to learn in a different way to the traditional education system that is predominantly academically based to one that is project-oriented and provides individualistic tuition.
Veterans in Communities
Veterans in Communities (VIC) supports serving and ex-services personnel and their families, and members of the emergency services who have experienced difficulties in transitioning back into the community. We offer a range of services including outdoor activities, support to access specialised services, outdoor activities, hands-on projects to benefit the community, SInging Group and Art Group.
Recycling Lives
The Recycling Lives charity acts as a safety net for vulnerable and marginalised people. We offer accommodation, education, training and work experience to homeless and long-term unemployed individuals, with the aim of helping them back into full-time work and finding them a place to call their own.
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Business & Legal Services
Beanstalk Business Centre CIC
Beanstalk Business Centre CIC is passionate about helping businesses become stronger, sustainable, and profitable. We offer business support and administration services to entrepreneurs, start-ups, not-for-profits, and SMEs. We recognise that small businesses are the backbone of local communities; they provide character and individuality that reflect a town’s personality. Business owners and employees usually live and work within their communities. Building successful businesses create a thriving local economy with local jobs and strong community bonds.
Simultaneously, we provide employment and work experience opportunities, with job coaching and pastoral support for people looking for employment.
Child Action Northwest
We passionately believe that every child and young person has the right to achieve their full potential, whatever their background or circumstances – and, as a result, we work with over 6000 children, young people and families in the North West of England every year. We work in the heart of communities – often in partnership with other organisations – to end family cycles of deprivation, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of self-esteem, youth crime, teenage pregnancies and broken families.
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Childcare
Roots to Branches Forest School CIC
Roots to branches provide outdoor sessions led with a forest school ethos for children and adults. We aim to bring the benefits of nature on our wellbeing to everyone.
Hope Street
Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.
We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live is a charity specialising in Substance Misuse and Criminal Justice intervention projects in England and Wales. We’re funded by councils and local authorities who commission us to provide services, and we sometimes receive donations from the public.
Because we’re not a business, we’re not looking to make a profit. So we can focus on making sure that everything we do is helping the people who use our services, and the wider public too.
Trust House Lancashire
Trust House Lancashire is a specalist counselling service for Men, Women and Children who have experienced sexual violence or abuse of any kind. We also offer Family support to the whole family of children who have experienced sexual violence. Our main office is based in Preston town centre, we also have rooms available in Burnley, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Ormskirk and Smelmersdale. Trust House Lancashire believes that every individual has the right to be free from all forms of sexual violence and abuse. Our vision is a safe Lancashire free from sexual violence and abuse.
New Era Enterprises (E.Lanc) Ltd
New Era Enterprises (E. Lancs) Ltd is a company limited by guarantee. It is a community business that promotes a wide range of community-based regeneration and economic development, primarily in and around Pennine Lancashire.
Although constituted as a business, its ethos is much more about improving the lives of local people than making money for itself. Its aim is to provide a service which supports the growth of skills and networks so that people are able to initiate and participate in their own and their community’s development.
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Community Support & Centres
Blue Flamingo Community Hub CIC
Blue Flamingo Community Hub CICPrestonLancashireAbout Us Blue Flamingo Community Hub aims to combat isolation and loneliness and provide support to people living in our community. We are a safe and inclusive space for people to socialise, offering specialist support...
Lets Make A Difference CIC
Lets Make A Difference CICChorleyNorth West, UKAbout Us We help charities find long term accommadation solutions for their service users, close to their support network, and help with top up funds on top of universal credit for private rental housing. Community...
Renewed Horizons CIC
Renewed Horizons is a service that seeks to empower and assist economically inactive people from marginalized and underserved backgrounds to achieve employment and independence. We seek to combine the dynamic approach of a recruitment consultant with the care and attention of a social enterprise.
Z’s Defence Academy
We are Z’s Defence Academy, a local community-based organisation for women and girls based in Blackburn. For 4 years we concentrated solely on self-defence classes, post COVID we have expanded into other forms of fitness and health and well-being.
Creative Football CIC
From carefully crafted football sessions that people can just show up to, to expertly facilitated sessions for people in mental health services, to providing expert advice and guidance to teams and organisations, Creative Football changes people’s lives. We are proud to work in partnership with Together an Active Future (TaAF), Sport England and Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS.
Emmaus Preston
Emmaus Preston is a charity that provides a home and work to people who have been homeless or socially excluded. With your support we’re helping to change lives in Preston.
Infinite Women CIC
Our mission at Infinite Women is for Women to Empower Women to create stronger communities and build a better, brighter future for all. Empowerment of Women is at the heart of all that we do. We host monthly sessions, with a speaker and time for refreshments and socializing. We have a different theme each month, with topics linked to Holistic Health, Holistic Living, Sustainability and Fun. We aim to have a variety of settings/venues, with options for day and evening sessions to enable women to access when working different hours. We plan to deliver additional sessions, activities, events and conferences as we progress and develop.
Phab Ltd
Phab supports a network of around 120 inclusive, accessible clubs in all age ranges, offering activities which all members (disabled and non-disabled) can share and enjoy together. Phab runs the Integrated Living Experiences and Skills for Independence residential projects at fully accessible activity centres in Cumbria and the South East. Phab organises conferences and forums across the regions, with workshops, training, advice and group discussions.
Shine Coaching
Shine Coaching is a Community Interest Company (CIC) that offers life coaching sessions to men in Lancashire over the age of 18 who experience anger issues. We offer sessions over the phone to our clients, making it more accessible, whilst also reducing travelling costs for our clients.
As a CIC with limited funds, we can then spend more funding on client contact time, maximizing the resources we can devote to those who need it. We have built relationships with community agencies who have direct and indirect (through partners, for example) contact with men.
Let’s Grow Preston
We have 3 sites from where we promote physical and mental wellbeing through volunteering in horticulture. Following the principles of social therapy in horticulture, we build esteem and confidence in individuals and we deliver workshops and activities in the community to promote community cohesion and resilience.
His Provision CIC
His Provision was born out of a local church soup kitchen/food pantry and registered with companies house in June 2013. Initially operating from the church premises and a small rented shop we were blessed when Green Pastures purchased our multi purpose premises for us in January 2015. The new centre has allowed us to offer supported accommodation to four men, plus move on accommodation for a further two clients. We also host a community hub, free family meal, volunteering opportunities, community café and training centre, and also houses our food pantry.
St. Antony’s Centre
St Antony’s Centre provides front line Information, advice and guidance services to various community & faith groups, charities and employers across the North West. In addition, the centre is accredited training provider and currently holds contracts across the region to deliver predominantly Maths, English and ICT courses across a number of community venues, employers and partner locations.
Equalities and Justice NW Ltd
Challenging the inequalities and injustices faced by marginalised communities across Lancashire & Greater Manchester.
Hope Street
Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.
We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.
Rainbow Youth Centre
We are youth hub specialising in helping young members of the LGBTQI+ community with mental health issues & social anxiety, we act as a safe space for young people to come, and be themselves ask for help or advice, or just to find a friend.
Travel Assist Services Ltd
From the very start, Travel Assist has based all business decisions on the ethics of our social objectives, which is to provide opportunities, equality and respect. However, as the business has developed, Travel Assist has recognised that it has a responsibility to look at the impact the work carried out by the organization has on the environment.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live is a charity specialising in Substance Misuse and Criminal Justice intervention projects in England and Wales. We’re funded by councils and local authorities who commission us to provide services, and we sometimes receive donations from the public.
Because we’re not a business, we’re not looking to make a profit. So we can focus on making sure that everything we do is helping the people who use our services, and the wider public too.
Enterprising Habits Ltd
We offer a range of services to local residents and families across East Lancashire that includes vocational qualifications, functional skills, employability skills, enterprise support, bi-lingual info advice and guidance, traineeship (16-25) etc.
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
Chaired by Lord Shuttleworth, we are an independent charity that uses its extensive, nationally significant collection of textiles and craft items to inspire and educate. Based at Gawthorpe Hall, we provide access to the collections via public exhibitions, study visits for students, researchers and specialist groups, as well as school visits, artist collaborations and commissions, workshops, demonstrations, talks and gallery tours. We deliver community outreach to support the wellbeing and skills development of local residents in Burnley through a textile studio within Valley Street Community Centre.
Rosemary and Time CIC
Rosemary and Time CIC delivers gardening related activity workshops, training courses and ongoing projects aimed at supporting both geographical communities and communities of interest. Our main focus has been people living with dementia and their carers, and those living in care homes and the activity co-ordinators that support them.
No Whispers CIC
No Whispers Community Interest Company deliver training and awareness in child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, county lines and safeguarding.
Positive Action in the Community
We are a local registered charity working across Pendle, Burnley and Rossendale on a number of projects which support people to build emotional resilience, improve their emotional health and wellbeing, make positive choices, and improve their education and employment chances and move on to live independent lives.
Spring North
Our vision is to develop innovative solutions to create a positive impact on the lives of children, young people, families and the communities in which they live whilst challenging inequality and disadvantage – to enable them to meet their full potential.
Trust House Lancashire
Trust House Lancashire is a specalist counselling service for Men, Women and Children who have experienced sexual violence or abuse of any kind. We also offer Family support to the whole family of children who have experienced sexual violence. Our main office is based in Preston town centre, we also have rooms available in Burnley, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Ormskirk and Smelmersdale. Trust House Lancashire believes that every individual has the right to be free from all forms of sexual violence and abuse. Our vision is a safe Lancashire free from sexual violence and abuse.
Open Door Furniture Recycling
Open Door Furniture Recycling is YOUR community based furniture scheme which has been set up on a not for profit basis.
Gift92
Gift92 helps those in real need to build a stable home. We help people with limited finance and receiving state benefits to furnish a property. The charity has been doing this since 1992. Many of those we help have moved into an empty property and do not have the funds to furnish it.
The Sewing Rooms
The Sewing Rooms social enterprise is a business that trades to tackle social problems. Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities we work with, as well as improve peoples’ life chances. We do this through bespoke training workshops and a manufacturing department that makes soft furnishings, accessories and bespoke upholstery for private and corporate clients.
Lancashire Women
Lancashire Women is a leading charity for women and girls in Lancashire with over 8500 women accessing their services over the past year and 31 active volunteers supporting delivery of their services. Their vision is where all women and girls in Lancashire are valued and treated as equals. Lancashire Women empower women and girls to be able to transform their lives by bringing them together to: find their voice, share experiences and understanding, develop their knowledge and skills and challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about them… so that they can have choices in becoming the individuals they want to be.
Lancashire Mind
We’re an independent charity, based in Chorley and working for the people of Lancashire. Our committed and energetic team of staff, trustees and volunteers are passionate about making a difference to the mental health of people living and working in Lancashire.
Age UK Blackburn with Darwen
Age UK Blackburn with Darwen (previously known as Age Concern Blackburn with Darwen) were established in 1976 as a local independent registered charity. Over the last 35 years they have worked with thousands of local older people providing a range of community based services.
DanceSyndrome
DanceSyndrome is an inclusive award-winning North-West dance charity led by dancers with learning disabilities. We believe that everybody belongs and that people with learning disabilities have skills and assets which can contribute to and inspire an equitable civil society.
Strawberry Fields Training CIC
Strawberry Fields exists to support and empower marginalised people to recognise and move towards developing their potential.
We have been supporting young people and adults for over nine years and continue to provide compassionate, client-centric, and innovative support packages for those in need.
Spring into Action CIC
Spring into Action is a community interest company based in Accrington in East Lancashire. We set up in 2012 and have a vision of an inclusive society where people with learning disabilities can fully participate.
Recycling Lives
The Recycling Lives charity acts as a safety net for vulnerable and marginalised people. We offer accommodation, education, training and work experience to homeless and long-term unemployed individuals, with the aim of helping them back into full-time work and finding them a place to call their own.
Intact – Preston
IntactThe Intact Centre49 Whitby Avenue, IngolPreston PR2 3YPAbout Us As part of our continued service and commitment to our local community, the rooms and facilities are available for a wide variety of needs. With our range of multi-purpose spaces and multi-agency...
Furniture Matters
Furniture Matters is a local re-use and recycle charity who’s aim is to provide quality low cost furniture and other household goods to local people in need in the community…
Child Action Northwest
We passionately believe that every child and young person has the right to achieve their full potential, whatever their background or circumstances – and, as a result, we work with over 6000 children, young people and families in the North West of England every year. We work in the heart of communities – often in partnership with other organisations – to end family cycles of deprivation, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of self-esteem, youth crime, teenage pregnancies and broken families.
Advocacy Focus
Advocacy means supporting somebody to speak up and be listened to, ensuring their views and wishes are heard and taken seriously. Advocacy can enable people to become more involved in important decisions about their health and social care.
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Community Transport
Z’s Defence Academy
We are Z’s Defence Academy, a local community-based organisation for women and girls based in Blackburn. For 4 years we concentrated solely on self-defence classes, post COVID we have expanded into other forms of fitness and health and well-being.
Travel Assist Services Ltd
From the very start, Travel Assist has based all business decisions on the ethics of our social objectives, which is to provide opportunities, equality and respect. However, as the business has developed, Travel Assist has recognised that it has a responsibility to look at the impact the work carried out by the organization has on the environment.
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Creative, Media & IT
Hope Street
Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.
We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.
Redmoor Communications CIC
Redmoor Communications is a community interest company specialising in providing public relations support and social media training for new and established social enterprises, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations. A not for profit social enterprise with social responsibility at the heart of all we do, Redmoor Communications offers clients a comprehensive support package.
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
Chaired by Lord Shuttleworth, we are an independent charity that uses its extensive, nationally significant collection of textiles and craft items to inspire and educate. Based at Gawthorpe Hall, we provide access to the collections via public exhibitions, study visits for students, researchers and specialist groups, as well as school visits, artist collaborations and commissions, workshops, demonstrations, talks and gallery tours. We deliver community outreach to support the wellbeing and skills development of local residents in Burnley through a textile studio within Valley Street Community Centre.
East Lancashire Community Action Project
Established since 2002 and registered as a charity since 2007. ELCAP delivers projects and workshops related to ICT, Media and technology.
Freckle Creative
Freckle is a marketing consultancy, focused on support for the 3rd sector, in all areas of business development, promotion, creative delivery and marketing.
DanceSyndrome
DanceSyndrome is an inclusive award-winning North-West dance charity led by dancers with learning disabilities. We believe that everybody belongs and that people with learning disabilities have skills and assets which can contribute to and inspire an equitable civil society.
Creativity Works Preston
The Creativity Works Preston Production Centre is based upon the Danish Production school model. CWP offers an alternative form of education to people of all ages who need or prefer to learn in a different way to the traditional education system that is predominantly academically based to one that is project-oriented and provides individualistic tuition.
Tick the Publicity Box CIC
Twice nominated as Creative Company of the Year, Tick The Publicity Box – specialists in media, marketing and PR – gives clients in the third sector a professional image and assists them with all aspects of promotion from design and printing, buying media space, staging events and presentations.
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Design & Print
Freckle Creative
Freckle is a marketing consultancy, focused on support for the 3rd sector, in all areas of business development, promotion, creative delivery and marketing.
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Employability, Education & Training
Best at Solutions CIC
Best at Solutions CIC provides training and support for those who struggle with their emotional well-being.
Our amazing support programme for adults (over the age of 18) is the only evidence based grief programme in the world. We also provide specialist training for those who support children and young people who are struggling with change and loss events in their life.
Lets Make A Difference CIC
Lets Make A Difference CICChorleyNorth West, UKAbout Us We help charities find long term accommadation solutions for their service users, close to their support network, and help with top up funds on top of universal credit for private rental housing. Community...
Roots to Branches Forest School CIC
Roots to branches provide outdoor sessions led with a forest school ethos for children and adults. We aim to bring the benefits of nature on our wellbeing to everyone.
Renewed Horizons CIC
Renewed Horizons is a service that seeks to empower and assist economically inactive people from marginalized and underserved backgrounds to achieve employment and independence. We seek to combine the dynamic approach of a recruitment consultant with the care and attention of a social enterprise.
Z’s Defence Academy
We are Z’s Defence Academy, a local community-based organisation for women and girls based in Blackburn. For 4 years we concentrated solely on self-defence classes, post COVID we have expanded into other forms of fitness and health and well-being.
The Alternative School Group Ltd
We are an independent school set up to support those pupils who are unable to thrive in mainstream education. All pupils have SEMH needs and are from some of the most disadvantaged families in the county. We offer personalised education to include outdoor education, access to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and residential retreats.
Blackpool and The Fylde Street Angels
We support vulnerable people in Blackpool. We help to make Blackpool a safer place to be in the evening. Some of our services include, temporary bed unit 365 days per year, hot food street outreach, weekend evening outreach – we offer practical help, advice and basic first aid, a shelter for adults during severe weather periods. We also have a facility called Angels Rest used to run education and support groups.
Lancashire Careers Company CIC
Lancashire Careers Company CIC exists to ensure that professional, qualified, and registered career development is available to unemployed people throughout the region. Those providing career guidance are qualified to a minimum of Level 6 in the careers sector. We measure the impact of our intervention using evidence-based tools and psychometric testing (Morrisby and Outcomes Star).
Wot Wud U Do CIC
At Wot Wud U Do Educational Services (WWUDES), we believe in empowering individuals to thrive in every aspect of their lives. Our mission is to equip people with essential skills that transcend traditional education, focusing on social and emotional development, employability readiness, and the power of co-production. Through tailored programs and collaborative approaches, we cultivate a growth mindset in individuals, empowering them with the confidence needed to enhance emotional management and decision-making skills, thus enabling them to navigate life’s challenges effectively.
Let’s Grow Preston
We have 3 sites from where we promote physical and mental wellbeing through volunteering in horticulture. Following the principles of social therapy in horticulture, we build esteem and confidence in individuals and we deliver workshops and activities in the community to promote community cohesion and resilience.
His Provision CIC
His Provision was born out of a local church soup kitchen/food pantry and registered with companies house in June 2013. Initially operating from the church premises and a small rented shop we were blessed when Green Pastures purchased our multi purpose premises for us in January 2015. The new centre has allowed us to offer supported accommodation to four men, plus move on accommodation for a further two clients. We also host a community hub, free family meal, volunteering opportunities, community café and training centre, and also houses our food pantry.
St. Antony’s Centre
St Antony’s Centre provides front line Information, advice and guidance services to various community & faith groups, charities and employers across the North West. In addition, the centre is accredited training provider and currently holds contracts across the region to deliver predominantly Maths, English and ICT courses across a number of community venues, employers and partner locations.
Hope Street
Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.
We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.
Rainbow Youth Centre
We are youth hub specialising in helping young members of the LGBTQI+ community with mental health issues & social anxiety, we act as a safe space for young people to come, and be themselves ask for help or advice, or just to find a friend.
Redmoor Communications CIC
Redmoor Communications is a community interest company specialising in providing public relations support and social media training for new and established social enterprises, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations. A not for profit social enterprise with social responsibility at the heart of all we do, Redmoor Communications offers clients a comprehensive support package.
Travel Assist Services Ltd
From the very start, Travel Assist has based all business decisions on the ethics of our social objectives, which is to provide opportunities, equality and respect. However, as the business has developed, Travel Assist has recognised that it has a responsibility to look at the impact the work carried out by the organization has on the environment.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live is a charity specialising in Substance Misuse and Criminal Justice intervention projects in England and Wales. We’re funded by councils and local authorities who commission us to provide services, and we sometimes receive donations from the public.
Because we’re not a business, we’re not looking to make a profit. So we can focus on making sure that everything we do is helping the people who use our services, and the wider public too.
Beanstalk Business Centre CIC
Beanstalk Business Centre CIC is passionate about helping businesses become stronger, sustainable, and profitable. We offer business support and administration services to entrepreneurs, start-ups, not-for-profits, and SMEs. We recognise that small businesses are the backbone of local communities; they provide character and individuality that reflect a town’s personality. Business owners and employees usually live and work within their communities. Building successful businesses create a thriving local economy with local jobs and strong community bonds.
Simultaneously, we provide employment and work experience opportunities, with job coaching and pastoral support for people looking for employment.
Rebuild with Hope Foundation
We are a newly formed organisation providing employment, training and support for individuals involved with the criminal justice system whilst on RoTL, community licence and post release.
Growing Resilience CIC
Growing Resilience is a self-awareness course that considers encountering conflict and stress in everyday life, as a certain inevitability. The programme shows the participants how to grow a mental health toolkit to become more resilient and be better able to cope with times of chaos and deal with conflict pro-actively, focussing on a positive future situation.
Enterprising Habits Ltd
We offer a range of services to local residents and families across East Lancashire that includes vocational qualifications, functional skills, employability skills, enterprise support, bi-lingual info advice and guidance, traineeship (16-25) etc.
No Whispers CIC
No Whispers Community Interest Company deliver training and awareness in child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, county lines and safeguarding.
Freckle Creative
Freckle is a marketing consultancy, focused on support for the 3rd sector, in all areas of business development, promotion, creative delivery and marketing.
Barks & Recreation
Barks & Recreation are a Preston organisation that supports people who have a learning disability or mental health condition to walk dogs – and share the profits with the people we support.
Lancashire Women
Lancashire Women is a leading charity for women and girls in Lancashire with over 8500 women accessing their services over the past year and 31 active volunteers supporting delivery of their services. Their vision is where all women and girls in Lancashire are valued and treated as equals. Lancashire Women empower women and girls to be able to transform their lives by bringing them together to: find their voice, share experiences and understanding, develop their knowledge and skills and challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about them… so that they can have choices in becoming the individuals they want to be.
Active Lancashire
Active Lancashire is the strategic lead for Sport and Physical Activity in Lancashire. We connect with like-minded local organisations and individuals to help bring about active lifestyles. Nationally we are one of the many Sport England-led Active Partnerships that drive a sports delivery system across the country.
DanceSyndrome
DanceSyndrome is an inclusive award-winning North-West dance charity led by dancers with learning disabilities. We believe that everybody belongs and that people with learning disabilities have skills and assets which can contribute to and inspire an equitable civil society.
Creativity Works Preston
The Creativity Works Preston Production Centre is based upon the Danish Production school model. CWP offers an alternative form of education to people of all ages who need or prefer to learn in a different way to the traditional education system that is predominantly academically based to one that is project-oriented and provides individualistic tuition.
IMO Charity
A grassroots charity based in the heart of Blackburn. We have been operating since 2006 and work with young and old people in supporting them on various health & wellbeing, education & employability and Sports & Development.
Veterans in Communities
Veterans in Communities (VIC) supports serving and ex-services personnel and their families, and members of the emergency services who have experienced difficulties in transitioning back into the community. We offer a range of services including outdoor activities, support to access specialised services, outdoor activities, hands-on projects to benefit the community, SInging Group and Art Group.
Strawberry Fields Training CIC
Strawberry Fields exists to support and empower marginalised people to recognise and move towards developing their potential.
We have been supporting young people and adults for over nine years and continue to provide compassionate, client-centric, and innovative support packages for those in need.
Shared Future CIC
We are a community interest company established in 2009, operating across the UK, with a focus on projects in Lancashire and the North West. We offer consultancy, research and development services to the public sector and the social economy. Providing expertise, building connections and delivering impactful projects.
New Era Enterprises (E.Lanc) Ltd
New Era Enterprises (E. Lancs) Ltd is a company limited by guarantee. It is a community business that promotes a wide range of community-based regeneration and economic development, primarily in and around Pennine Lancashire.
Although constituted as a business, its ethos is much more about improving the lives of local people than making money for itself. Its aim is to provide a service which supports the growth of skills and networks so that people are able to initiate and participate in their own and their community’s development.
Midstream (West Lancs) Ltd
From a six and a half acre site and state of the art, purpose built accommodation in Skelmersdale, West Lancashire it provides vocational training and supported employment in a caring environment for young people and adults with learning difficulties. At the same time it creates business and trading opportunities with public sector, private sector and voluntary/community sector organisations offering a wide range of products and services.
Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd
Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd was established in 1983 to provide supported housing for individuals with Learning Difficulties. We continue to do this and also support individuals with Mental Health conditions, Physical Disabilities, Autism, Sensory Impairments and Dementia.
Groundwork Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside
We’ve been working to build more sustainable communities across Cheshire and Lancashire since 1985 and in Merseyside since 2012. We do this by helping people and organisations to create better neighbourhoods, to build their skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.
Child Action Northwest
We passionately believe that every child and young person has the right to achieve their full potential, whatever their background or circumstances – and, as a result, we work with over 6000 children, young people and families in the North West of England every year. We work in the heart of communities – often in partnership with other organisations – to end family cycles of deprivation, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of self-esteem, youth crime, teenage pregnancies and broken families.
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Blackpool and The Fylde Street Angels
We support vulnerable people in Blackpool. We help to make Blackpool a safer place to be in the evening. Some of our services include, temporary bed unit 365 days per year, hot food street outreach, weekend evening outreach – we offer practical help, advice and basic first aid, a shelter for adults during severe weather periods. We also have a facility called Angels Rest used to run education and support groups.
Preston Co-operative Development Network
Preston Co-operative Development Network supports new and trading co-operatives in Preston and surrounds. It does this through webinars and workshops, networking events and specialist support.
Rainbow Youth Centre
We are youth hub specialising in helping young members of the LGBTQI+ community with mental health issues & social anxiety, we act as a safe space for young people to come, and be themselves ask for help or advice, or just to find a friend.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live is a charity specialising in Substance Misuse and Criminal Justice intervention projects in England and Wales. We’re funded by councils and local authorities who commission us to provide services, and we sometimes receive donations from the public.
Because we’re not a business, we’re not looking to make a profit. So we can focus on making sure that everything we do is helping the people who use our services, and the wider public too.
Enterprising Habits Ltd
We offer a range of services to local residents and families across East Lancashire that includes vocational qualifications, functional skills, employability skills, enterprise support, bi-lingual info advice and guidance, traineeship (16-25) etc.
Tick the Publicity Box CIC
Twice nominated as Creative Company of the Year, Tick The Publicity Box – specialists in media, marketing and PR – gives clients in the third sector a professional image and assists them with all aspects of promotion from design and printing, buying media space, staging events and presentations.
Social Enterprise Solutions CIC
Social Enterprise Solutions CIC supports the start-up, development and growth of social enterprises primarily in the northwest.
Shared Future CIC
We are a community interest company established in 2009, operating across the UK, with a focus on projects in Lancashire and the North West. We offer consultancy, research and development services to the public sector and the social economy. Providing expertise, building connections and delivering impactful projects.
Co-operative and Mutual Solutions
Co-operative and Mutual Solutions (CMS) Ltd provides specialist business advice and training to co-operatives and social enterprise
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Environment & Recycling
Roots to Branches Forest School CIC
Roots to branches provide outdoor sessions led with a forest school ethos for children and adults. We aim to bring the benefits of nature on our wellbeing to everyone.
Let’s Grow Preston
We have 3 sites from where we promote physical and mental wellbeing through volunteering in horticulture. Following the principles of social therapy in horticulture, we build esteem and confidence in individuals and we deliver workshops and activities in the community to promote community cohesion and resilience.
Open Door Furniture Recycling
Open Door Furniture Recycling is YOUR community based furniture scheme which has been set up on a not for profit basis.
Gift92
Gift92 helps those in real need to build a stable home. We help people with limited finance and receiving state benefits to furnish a property. The charity has been doing this since 1992. Many of those we help have moved into an empty property and do not have the funds to furnish it.
Active Lancashire
Active Lancashire is the strategic lead for Sport and Physical Activity in Lancashire. We connect with like-minded local organisations and individuals to help bring about active lifestyles. Nationally we are one of the many Sport England-led Active Partnerships that drive a sports delivery system across the country.
Recycling Lives
The Recycling Lives charity acts as a safety net for vulnerable and marginalised people. We offer accommodation, education, training and work experience to homeless and long-term unemployed individuals, with the aim of helping them back into full-time work and finding them a place to call their own.
Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd
Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd was established in 1983 to provide supported housing for individuals with Learning Difficulties. We continue to do this and also support individuals with Mental Health conditions, Physical Disabilities, Autism, Sensory Impairments and Dementia.
Groundwork Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside
We’ve been working to build more sustainable communities across Cheshire and Lancashire since 1985 and in Merseyside since 2012. We do this by helping people and organisations to create better neighbourhoods, to build their skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.
Furniture Matters
Furniture Matters is a local re-use and recycle charity who’s aim is to provide quality low cost furniture and other household goods to local people in need in the community…
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Jubilee Tower Credit Union Limited
Jubilee Tower Credit Union is a financial co-operative offering easy to access financial services to individuals and organisations within the Blackburn and Darwen area.
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Health & Social Care
Blue Flamingo Community Hub CIC
Blue Flamingo Community Hub CICPrestonLancashireAbout Us Blue Flamingo Community Hub aims to combat isolation and loneliness and provide support to people living in our community. We are a safe and inclusive space for people to socialise, offering specialist support...
Best at Solutions CIC
Best at Solutions CIC provides training and support for those who struggle with their emotional well-being.
Our amazing support programme for adults (over the age of 18) is the only evidence based grief programme in the world. We also provide specialist training for those who support children and young people who are struggling with change and loss events in their life.
Mental Health Mental Fitness
Mental Health Mental FitnessPrestonAbout Us We look at 12 aspects of wellbeing to improve mental fitness. Health & Social CareContactsFor People | For Business | For Good
Lets Make A Difference CIC
Lets Make A Difference CICChorleyNorth West, UKAbout Us We help charities find long term accommadation solutions for their service users, close to their support network, and help with top up funds on top of universal credit for private rental housing. Community...
Infinite Women CIC
Our mission at Infinite Women is for Women to Empower Women to create stronger communities and build a better, brighter future for all. Empowerment of Women is at the heart of all that we do. We host monthly sessions, with a speaker and time for refreshments and socializing. We have a different theme each month, with topics linked to Holistic Health, Holistic Living, Sustainability and Fun. We aim to have a variety of settings/venues, with options for day and evening sessions to enable women to access when working different hours. We plan to deliver additional sessions, activities, events and conferences as we progress and develop.
Shine Coaching
Shine Coaching is a Community Interest Company (CIC) that offers life coaching sessions to men in Lancashire over the age of 18 who experience anger issues. We offer sessions over the phone to our clients, making it more accessible, whilst also reducing travelling costs for our clients.
As a CIC with limited funds, we can then spend more funding on client contact time, maximizing the resources we can devote to those who need it. We have built relationships with community agencies who have direct and indirect (through partners, for example) contact with men.
Hope Street
Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.
We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.
Rainbow Youth Centre
We are youth hub specialising in helping young members of the LGBTQI+ community with mental health issues & social anxiety, we act as a safe space for young people to come, and be themselves ask for help or advice, or just to find a friend.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live is a charity specialising in Substance Misuse and Criminal Justice intervention projects in England and Wales. We’re funded by councils and local authorities who commission us to provide services, and we sometimes receive donations from the public.
Because we’re not a business, we’re not looking to make a profit. So we can focus on making sure that everything we do is helping the people who use our services, and the wider public too.
Growing Resilience CIC
Growing Resilience is a self-awareness course that considers encountering conflict and stress in everyday life, as a certain inevitability. The programme shows the participants how to grow a mental health toolkit to become more resilient and be better able to cope with times of chaos and deal with conflict pro-actively, focussing on a positive future situation.
Enterprising Habits Ltd
We offer a range of services to local residents and families across East Lancashire that includes vocational qualifications, functional skills, employability skills, enterprise support, bi-lingual info advice and guidance, traineeship (16-25) etc.
Rosemary and Time CIC
Rosemary and Time CIC delivers gardening related activity workshops, training courses and ongoing projects aimed at supporting both geographical communities and communities of interest. Our main focus has been people living with dementia and their carers, and those living in care homes and the activity co-ordinators that support them.
Pathways Associates CIC
Pathways Associates Community Interest Company is committed to supporting individuals to take control of all aspects of their lives as described by the 12 pillars of independent living.
No Whispers CIC
No Whispers Community Interest Company deliver training and awareness in child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, county lines and safeguarding.
Spring North
Our vision is to develop innovative solutions to create a positive impact on the lives of children, young people, families and the communities in which they live whilst challenging inequality and disadvantage – to enable them to meet their full potential.
Trust House Lancashire
Trust House Lancashire is a specalist counselling service for Men, Women and Children who have experienced sexual violence or abuse of any kind. We also offer Family support to the whole family of children who have experienced sexual violence. Our main office is based in Preston town centre, we also have rooms available in Burnley, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Ormskirk and Smelmersdale. Trust House Lancashire believes that every individual has the right to be free from all forms of sexual violence and abuse. Our vision is a safe Lancashire free from sexual violence and abuse.
Barks & Recreation
Barks & Recreation are a Preston organisation that supports people who have a learning disability or mental health condition to walk dogs – and share the profits with the people we support.
AFC Fylde Community Foundation
The AFC Fylde Community Foundation work across the Fylde Coast to educate, motivate and inspire future generations to build better communities for all. They have qualified coaches working all over Fylde delivering coaching, education programmes and personal development, providing young people of all abilities with multiple opportunities.
Active Lancashire
Active Lancashire is the strategic lead for Sport and Physical Activity in Lancashire. We connect with like-minded local organisations and individuals to help bring about active lifestyles. Nationally we are one of the many Sport England-led Active Partnerships that drive a sports delivery system across the country.
Lancashire Mind
We’re an independent charity, based in Chorley and working for the people of Lancashire. Our committed and energetic team of staff, trustees and volunteers are passionate about making a difference to the mental health of people living and working in Lancashire.
Age UK Blackburn with Darwen
Age UK Blackburn with Darwen (previously known as Age Concern Blackburn with Darwen) were established in 1976 as a local independent registered charity. Over the last 35 years they have worked with thousands of local older people providing a range of community based services.
DanceSyndrome
DanceSyndrome is an inclusive award-winning North-West dance charity led by dancers with learning disabilities. We believe that everybody belongs and that people with learning disabilities have skills and assets which can contribute to and inspire an equitable civil society.
IMO Charity
A grassroots charity based in the heart of Blackburn. We have been operating since 2006 and work with young and old people in supporting them on various health & wellbeing, education & employability and Sports & Development.
Pendle Women’s Forum
Pendle Women’s Forum have been working with disadvantaged women in the Pendle community since 1998. They offer support to build esteem, motivation and confidence and will extend this provision by providing a transformational coach to support women in removing barriers preventing them from moving into learning and work.
Strawberry Fields Training CIC
Strawberry Fields exists to support and empower marginalised people to recognise and move towards developing their potential.
We have been supporting young people and adults for over nine years and continue to provide compassionate, client-centric, and innovative support packages for those in need.
Spring into Action CIC
Spring into Action is a community interest company based in Accrington in East Lancashire. We set up in 2012 and have a vision of an inclusive society where people with learning disabilities can fully participate.
Midstream (West Lancs) Ltd
From a six and a half acre site and state of the art, purpose built accommodation in Skelmersdale, West Lancashire it provides vocational training and supported employment in a caring environment for young people and adults with learning difficulties. At the same time it creates business and trading opportunities with public sector, private sector and voluntary/community sector organisations offering a wide range of products and services.
Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd
Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd was established in 1983 to provide supported housing for individuals with Learning Difficulties. We continue to do this and also support individuals with Mental Health conditions, Physical Disabilities, Autism, Sensory Impairments and Dementia.
Child Action Northwest
We passionately believe that every child and young person has the right to achieve their full potential, whatever their background or circumstances – and, as a result, we work with over 6000 children, young people and families in the North West of England every year. We work in the heart of communities – often in partnership with other organisations – to end family cycles of deprivation, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of self-esteem, youth crime, teenage pregnancies and broken families.
Advocacy Focus
Advocacy means supporting somebody to speak up and be listened to, ensuring their views and wishes are heard and taken seriously. Advocacy can enable people to become more involved in important decisions about their health and social care.
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Horticulture
Let’s Grow Preston
We have 3 sites from where we promote physical and mental wellbeing through volunteering in horticulture. Following the principles of social therapy in horticulture, we build esteem and confidence in individuals and we deliver workshops and activities in the community to promote community cohesion and resilience.
Rosemary and Time CIC
Rosemary and Time CIC delivers gardening related activity workshops, training courses and ongoing projects aimed at supporting both geographical communities and communities of interest. Our main focus has been people living with dementia and their carers, and those living in care homes and the activity co-ordinators that support them.
Veterans in Communities
Veterans in Communities (VIC) supports serving and ex-services personnel and their families, and members of the emergency services who have experienced difficulties in transitioning back into the community. We offer a range of services including outdoor activities, support to access specialised services, outdoor activities, hands-on projects to benefit the community, SInging Group and Art Group.
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Retail & Manufacturing
Let’s Grow Preston
We have 3 sites from where we promote physical and mental wellbeing through volunteering in horticulture. Following the principles of social therapy in horticulture, we build esteem and confidence in individuals and we deliver workshops and activities in the community to promote community cohesion and resilience.
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
Chaired by Lord Shuttleworth, we are an independent charity that uses its extensive, nationally significant collection of textiles and craft items to inspire and educate. Based at Gawthorpe Hall, we provide access to the collections via public exhibitions, study visits for students, researchers and specialist groups, as well as school visits, artist collaborations and commissions, workshops, demonstrations, talks and gallery tours. We deliver community outreach to support the wellbeing and skills development of local residents in Burnley through a textile studio within Valley Street Community Centre.
The Sewing Rooms
The Sewing Rooms social enterprise is a business that trades to tackle social problems. Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities we work with, as well as improve peoples’ life chances. We do this through bespoke training workshops and a manufacturing department that makes soft furnishings, accessories and bespoke upholstery for private and corporate clients.
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Sports & Leisure
Roots to Branches Forest School CIC
Roots to branches provide outdoor sessions led with a forest school ethos for children and adults. We aim to bring the benefits of nature on our wellbeing to everyone.
AFC Fylde Community Foundation
The AFC Fylde Community Foundation work across the Fylde Coast to educate, motivate and inspire future generations to build better communities for all. They have qualified coaches working all over Fylde delivering coaching, education programmes and personal development, providing young people of all abilities with multiple opportunities.
Active Lancashire
Active Lancashire is the strategic lead for Sport and Physical Activity in Lancashire. We connect with like-minded local organisations and individuals to help bring about active lifestyles. Nationally we are one of the many Sport England-led Active Partnerships that drive a sports delivery system across the country.
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