Community

Charities benefiting their communities directly, whether by providing mobile and outreach services or through community centres, are all eligible to apply to the Awards.

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A Way Out
A Way Out

A WAY OUT (AWO) is a value-driven, outreach-focused charity (registered since 2002) whose mission is to reach and engage our communities' most ...

Accommodation Concern
Accommodation Concern

Accommodation Concern, founded in 1987, works to prevent and relieve poverty and homelessness in Northamptonshire. It provides supported housing ...

All Arts & Media
All Arts & Media

ALL FM 96.9 uses radio production training and broadcast to engage those at risk of exclusion in Greater Manchester's communities, to improve ...

Apex Trust
Apex Trust

Seeks to help people with criminal records to obtain appropriate jobs or self-employment by providing them with the skills they need in the labour ...

Burton Upon Trent & District YMCA
Burton Upon Trent & District YMCA

YMCA Burton believe that all people deserve to have a safe place to live and the opportunity to reach their full potential. The charity’s core ...

Care Network
Care Network

Care Network operates across Blackburn with Darwen. It supports vulnerable adults of all ages to live independent lives by providing access to ...

Carers Trust Heart of England
Carers Trust Heart of England

Carers Trust Heart of England exists to support unpaid carers of all-ages and to provide care and support in the community for people who have ...

Caring and Sharing Rochdale
Caring and Sharing Rochdale

Caring and Sharing Rochdale is a registered charity that provides practical support and empowerment for people from marginalised backgrounds, with ...

Cartwheel Arts
Cartwheel Arts

Cartwheel Arts is one of the leading participatory arts companies in the North West. The organisation has an impressive track record in devising ...

Community Link Stafford & District
Community Link Stafford & District

Community Link Stafford & District offers a reliable, friendly and professional door-to-door Dial-a-Ride community transport service to the ...

Community Works
Community Works

Community Works has been a focal point for people in various forms of need for over two decades in the market town of Thirsk, North Yorkshire. It ...

Cumbria Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service
Cumbria Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service

Cumbria Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service (CADAS) improves the health and wellbeing of Cumbrian communities by reducing harmful alcohol and drug ...

Dangerpoint
Dangerpoint

Dangerpoint is a registered charity designed to inspire, inform and engage with groups of children and families.

They offer bespoke tours ...

Disability Stockport CIO
Disability Stockport CIO

Disability Stockport CIO is a grassroots disabled people's user-led organisation run and controlled by disabled people, who comprise 75% of ...

Doddridge Centre Limited
Doddridge Centre Limited

Doddridge Centre is a community hub working within Northampton town centre offering a variety of support and services to those who live in poverty ...

Doncaster Community Arts
Doncaster Community Arts

The Mission at Darts is to create art with people in Doncaster to improve life, learning and health.

Darts are a team of artists, makers, ...

The Dorothy Parkes Centre
The Dorothy Parkes Centre

The Dorothy Parkes Centre is an award-winning community centre based in Smethwick, a diverse and deprived area in the Metropolitan Borough of ...

Edward Lloyd Trust
Edward Lloyd Trust

The Edward Lloyd Trust supports adults, children and young people with a learning disability to have a good life.  It supports people in ...

Endeavour
Endeavour

Endeavour is a small, national charity working at grass roots level with some of England's most disadvantaged, disaffected and forgotten young ...

Falcon Support Services
Falcon Support Services

Falcon Support Services provides and manages accommodation for homeless people in and around Loughborough in Leicestershire; going beyond ...

First Stop Darlington
First Stop Darlington

First Stop has over 20 years experience of working with a vast range of people from all walks of life who feel they are being left behind, ...

Foresight (North East Lincolnshire) Limited
Foresight (North East Lincolnshire) Limited

A local charity which works to improve the overall quality of life for disabled people their families and carers by offering a range of user-led ...

Gateway into the Community
Gateway into the Community

Gateway into the Community improves the lives of people in West Northumberland who have a learning disability. We support members to gain more ...

GISDA
GISDA

GISDA is a charity that provides intensive therapeutic support and opportunities for young people aged 14 to 25 living in Gwynedd. It was ...

Groundwork West Midlands
Groundwork West Midlands

Groundwork West Midlands works alongside local communities, public bodies, private companies and other voluntary sector organisations to support ...

Horden Youth and Community Centre
Horden Youth and Community Centre

Established in 1978, Horden Youth & Community Centre (HYCC) is a bustling and vibrant community building in a former mining village, which is ...

Independent Advocacy North East
Independent Advocacy North East

Independent Advocacy North East’s mission is to provide free and confidential advocacy for vulnerable people, in and around North Tyneside, who ...

Jericho Foundation
Jericho Foundation

The Jericho Foundation supports people with multiple and complex needs and disadvantages that act as barriers to employment, training or social ...

Learning Partnerships
Learning Partnerships

Learning Partnerships works within deprived communities in Leeds to provide opportunities and support children, young people and adults to help ...

Leeds Jewish Welfare Board
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board

Leeds Jewish Welfare Board provides community care services through practical and emotional support for people with learning difficulties, mental ...

Leicester LGBT Centre
Leicester LGBT Centre

Leicester Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Centre is an organisation established to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in ...

Linskill and North Tyneside Community Development Trust
Linskill and North Tyneside Community Development Trust

Linskill and North Tyneside Community Development Trust was set up in July 2003 to complete a community asset transfer of the Linskill Centre in ...

Martineau Gardens
Martineau Gardens

Martineau Gardens is a well-established, highly respected charity and an urban community garden operating for over 25 years, providing local and ...

Meadow Well Connected
Meadow Well Connected

Meadow Well Connected has been working positively with the community for over 25 years to improve the skills, health and wellbeing of residents ...

Murray Hall Community Trust
Murray Hall Community Trust

Murray Hall Community Trust is a rooted anchor organisation operating across the West Midlands, with an approach that flows from a social model of ...

Muslim Women's Council
Muslim Women's Council

Muslim Women's Council (MWC) is a Bradford-based charity that was founded in 2009 by a small group of local Muslim women who had experienced ...

New Heights - Warren Farm Community Project
New Heights - Warren Farm Community Project

New Heights Charity grew out of local people's commitment to provide services to meet the needs of vulnerable adults and children in the ...

Northern Heartlands
Northern Heartlands

Northern Heartlands is a charity based in County Durham bringing the creativity of artists together with individuals, community groups, schools ...

Northmoor Community Association
Northmoor Community Association

Northmoor Community Association was set up in 2000 by local people motivated to tackle disadvantage, gang related crime, environmental and ...

Pallion Action Group
Pallion Action Group

Pallion Action Group was set up to improve the living conditions, community facilities, social, educational, and economic opportunities available ...

Plant Dewi
Plant Dewi

Plant Dewi is a project of the St Davids Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility and its mission is to nurture families and strengthen ...

Positive Action in the Community (PAC)
Positive Action in the Community (PAC)

PAC is a local charity that has been responding to local needs for over 22 years. Its services range from SafeSpace, Pendle Domestic Violence ...

Ravenscliffe Community Association
Ravenscliffe Community Association

Ravenscliffe Community Association works with and for the communities of Ravenscliffe and Greengates from its community centre known as 'The ...

RAY Ceredigion
RAY Ceredigion

RAY Ceredigion provides weekly activities to improve the health and wellbeing for residents of Ceredigion, a rural county in West Wales, focusing ...

Reach South Sheffield
Reach South Sheffield

Reach is a third sector regeneration agency that has been working in the less affluent communities of South Sheffield since 1999.

Its work ...

Rubicon Dance
Rubicon Dance

Established in 1975, Rubicon is a community dance charity built around the single, central idea of aspirational dance for everyone. It delivers ...

ShARP - Shiney Advice and Resource Project
ShARP - Shiney Advice and Resource Project

ShARP has been in the community of Shiney Row, Sunderland for over 30 years. Their broad range of services include: advice and guidance in welfare ...

Shropshire RCC
Shropshire RCC

Shropshire RCC is committed to making Shropshire, Telford and Wreklin a great place for everyone to live, no matter what challenges are faced. In ...

Solihull Moors Foundation
Solihull Moors Foundation

Solihull Moors Foundation is a charity established in February 2018.

Its purpose is to support those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable ...

St Andrew’s Community Network
St Andrew’s Community Network

St Andrew’s Community Network has been working to tackle poverty in Clubmoor, Liverpool, since 2003. It aims to transform its community by ...

St Chad's Sanctuary
St Chad's Sanctuary

Since 2010 St. Chad’s Sanctuary's aim has been to provide welcome, friendship & practical support for asylum seekers and refugees in the West ...

Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel
Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel

Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel is a network of African communities in Wales applying the lived experiences, skills, capacity and knowledge found within ...

The Clock
The Clock

The aims of The Clock are to provide safe environments, facilitate social inclusion, develop skills and to provide for the personal, moral, ...

The Manchester Men’s Room
The Manchester Men’s Room

The Men’s Room is a unique arts and social care charity based in Manchester, and is the only organisation in the UK that's core mission is to ...

The Welcome Centre
The Welcome Centre

The Welcome Centre is one of the largest food banks in the region and has been supporting people in South Kirklees for over 20 years. Since 1997 ...

Venus Charity
Venus Charity

Venus is a 25 year old, community based, grassroots charity working alongside Women, Children, Young People and Families.

Venus Charity’s ...

The Wellspring Stockport
The Wellspring Stockport

The Wellspring Stockport is a frontline resource centre for homeless and disadvantaged people in Stockport, open 365 days a year. With the ...

Worcester Community Trust
Worcester Community Trust

Worcester Community Trust is a charity managing 6 community centres in Worcester and running a range of community projects which are changing the ...

Young Asian Voices
Young Asian Voices

Young Asian Voices (YAV) is a multicultural youth and community project which works and supports young people as well as adults in the city of ...

Your Voice Counts
Your Voice Counts

Your Voice Counts was established in 1991 by a small group of family carers to help people with learning disabilities in Gateshead to speak up. It ...

Zest - Health for Life
Zest - Health for Life

Zest is an independent not-for-profit organisation and registered charity. It’s aims are to: • Offer support and opportunity to people living in ...

iCan Wellbeing Group
iCan Wellbeing Group

iCan Wellbeing offers a range of ...

Spoons
Spoons

Spoons is a charity for families ...

Walthew House
Walthew House

Walthew House supports people in ...

Community Learning Partnerships
Community Learning Partnerships

Community Learning Partnerships is ...

Next Steps Mental Health Resource Centre
Next Steps Mental Health Resource Centre

Next Steps Mental Health ...

Pudsey Community Project:
Pudsey Community Project:

Pudsey Community Project is a grassroots ...

Derby City Mission
Derby City Mission

Derby City Mission is a sanctuary in ...

The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd has worked alongside ...