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People Seeking Support

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How to Use

Finding other strengths-based organisations can be a challenge. Our Strengths-Based Directory aims to make things easier for like-minded organisations by putting them all in one place. The Directory has three categories:

Community Development – organisations taking a strengths-based approach to working alongside communities, providing resources, space and opportunities for people to be heard, build relationships and explore their potential.

People Seeking Support – organisations taking a strengths-based approach to supporting people through tough times, walking alongside people managing long-term challenges and assisting people to build skill and resilience.

Strategic Support – Organisations offering support to others who are looking to build on or implement a strengths-based approach.

Each with sub-categories underneath them. To find an organisation, click on the sub-category and scroll away.

What is the Directory

Finding strengths-based organisations can be a challenge. Our Strengths-Based Directory is designed to:

  • Inspire through sharing what’s possible within our public service system, despite its flaws
  • Connect innovators and practitioners of work that aligns with the New System Alliance values
  • Inform and support commissioners to make more informed and structured decisions

The Directory has three categories: Community Development, People Seeking Support and Strategic Support, each with sub-categories underneath them. To find an organisation, simply find the category and sub-category you’re after and their contact details will be displayed on the drop-down menu.

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Need more? We work closely with several values-aligned partnerships: check out the Think Local Act Personal community of community-based approaches, and The Relationships Map from the Relationships Project.

Community Development

Organisations taking a strengths-based approach to working alongside communities, providing resources, space and opportunities for people to be heard, build relationships and explore their potential.

Enterprise Activities and Arts

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Museum of Homelessness, led by our community, does four things:
  1. We make tomorrow’s history by building the national collection for homelessness
  2. We take direct practical action in support of the community
  3. We fight injustice with our independent research and campaigning
  4. We educate on homelessness by working with artists and creatives to make unforgettable art, exhibitions and events

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

At the core of Four Square are the values upon which the organisation is based. These are equally applied to the people we support, our colleagues and our partners and are: Integrity; Excellence; Dignity; Support. 

Youth services accommodations 

We provide safe supported accommodation to young people. We want to promote better health and wellbeing for all so our staff, volunteers and external organisations can deliver groups and courses in the building or take people out into the community to take part in anything from sports to employability groups to study groups. We also have visiting specialists who can offer housing and benefit advice and advocacy, life coaching and mentoring. Our skilled workforce approach individuals in a meaningful way with a tailored support plan that meet individual needs to support young people with the skills to manage their own tenancy. 

Women’s Services 

At our women services we support women who have experienced domestic or gender-based violence. We support them to feel safe and live in a place where they can build and move on with their lives successfully. 

Community Support services 

Our Visiting Support service provides person-centred support to people who may be at risk of becoming homeless. This can be due to rent arrears; not having benefits in place or the right benefits; health issues; unemployment; relationship breakdowns; you need to move to a more suitable home or must move due to violence or abuse or any other reason. We can also offer early support via our Early Intervention and Prevention Service to help you resolve any issues arising that may only need one-off or short-term intervention.  

Equalities and Identity Groups

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Having worked for organisations for 30 years, I am utilising my drive for systems change, my skills, experience and global relationships to shift perception of the work place.

Organisations set up to work with communities, are experiencing unprecedented challenges. Retention, recruitment, compassion fatigue and low levels of staff engagement, have become ‘stuck’ systemic issues.

Through my high support / high challenge approach, I have the ability and experience of enabling organisations to refocus on relationships, making purpose conscious, sustaining meaning to contribute to other people.

Leaning into complexity and learning how to transcend the multiple systemic paradoxes needs a collective perspective shift, which I am able to facilitate.

Impact / Outcomes

I have worked with multiple organisations including SWIM, Turning Point, Sussex Uni, Brighton Uni, Voice 21, Women in Prison and the International Bateson Institute,. I have helped foster values based leadership and behaviours, radical include marginalised groups and evoke confidence in collaborative action to elicit transformative change across communities.

In the last organisation I worked for, I worked systemically to bring significant culture change over 3 years, to focus board governance not only on legal and financial duties, but in the needs of excluded groups in uncertain and complex times. I trained 400 leaders in complex decision making, values led leadership and relational governing. The implementation of ethical decision making and just and fair cultural practices directly impacted on women and people with origins in the global majority in the workforce and groups who have never been provided for in communities, including SE Asian women and black men.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

Creating a community around the most marginalised: older and homeless people and anyone who is loneliest.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

SAY Women offers safe semi-supported accommodation and emotional support for young women aged 16 to 25 who are survivors of sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault and who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness.

Available in: Midlands

The Work We Do

We help people build power to spark movements for change in their communities – because when they do, problems get solved, lives become better and prospects improve.

This is not just about creating close-knit communities, but communities that are ambitious for their members’ health and happiness.

Available in: Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Learning Disability England is bringing people and organisations together to create a movement for change where people with learning disabilities, families, friends and paid supporters come together on an equal basis. As a membership organisation, members work together to build a world where people with learning disabilities have good lives with equal choices and opportunities as others.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

At the core of Four Square are the values upon which the organisation is based. These are equally applied to the people we support, our colleagues and our partners and are: Integrity; Excellence; Dignity; Support. 

Youth services accommodations 

We provide safe supported accommodation to young people. We want to promote better health and wellbeing for all so our staff, volunteers and external organisations can deliver groups and courses in the building or take people out into the community to take part in anything from sports to employability groups to study groups. We also have visiting specialists who can offer housing and benefit advice and advocacy, life coaching and mentoring. Our skilled workforce approach individuals in a meaningful way with a tailored support plan that meet individual needs to support young people with the skills to manage their own tenancy. 

Women’s Services 

At our women services we support women who have experienced domestic or gender-based violence. We support them to feel safe and live in a place where they can build and move on with their lives successfully. 

Community Support services 

Our Visiting Support service provides person-centred support to people who may be at risk of becoming homeless. This can be due to rent arrears; not having benefits in place or the right benefits; health issues; unemployment; relationship breakdowns; you need to move to a more suitable home or must move due to violence or abuse or any other reason. We can also offer early support via our Early Intervention and Prevention Service to help you resolve any issues arising that may only need one-off or short-term intervention.  

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Yorks & Humber, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Our Gig Buddies project supports people with learning disabilities, and autistic people, to enjoy mainstream cultural activities by matching them with a volunteer with the same interests. The aim is to use the shared interest as a hook on which to build an ongoing friendship. We have licenced the project around the UK, in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. We have also supported AgeUK in Bradford to set up a version of the model for older people.

Place-based Community Work

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Having worked for organisations for 30 years, I am utilising my drive for systems change, my skills, experience and global relationships to shift perception of the work place.

Organisations set up to work with communities, are experiencing unprecedented challenges. Retention, recruitment, compassion fatigue and low levels of staff engagement, have become ‘stuck’ systemic issues.

Through my high support / high challenge approach, I have the ability and experience of enabling organisations to refocus on relationships, making purpose conscious, sustaining meaning to contribute to other people.

Leaning into complexity and learning how to transcend the multiple systemic paradoxes needs a collective perspective shift, which I am able to facilitate.

Impact / Outcomes

I have worked with multiple organisations including SWIM, Turning Point, Sussex Uni, Brighton Uni, Voice 21, Women in Prison and the International Bateson Institute,. I have helped foster values based leadership and behaviours, radical include marginalised groups and evoke confidence in collaborative action to elicit transformative change across communities.

In the last organisation I worked for, I worked systemically to bring significant culture change over 3 years, to focus board governance not only on legal and financial duties, but in the needs of excluded groups in uncertain and complex times. I trained 400 leaders in complex decision making, values led leadership and relational governing. The implementation of ethical decision making and just and fair cultural practices directly impacted on women and people with origins in the global majority in the workforce and groups who have never been provided for in communities, including SE Asian women and black men.

Available in: North West

The Work We Do

The Brick delivers effective solutions to address poverty and homelessness across the Wigan and Leigh Borough, providing supported and emergency accommodation services, street outreach services, wrap around person-led support, a food community and affordable furniture and essential household items to make a house a home.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Community Catalysts works in partnerships across the UK to try to make sure that people can be part of strong, inclusive, communities with real opportunities to connect, create and contribute. We work to ensure people can get help and care in ways, times and places that suit them, with a real choice of attractive local options. We help local people use their energies and talents and to establish enterprises and ventures. We use our expertise to help communities, organisations, authorities and policy makers to deliver transformational change in services or systems. We are often commissioned, contracted or funded by public, third or private sector organisations.

Our work themesWe group what we do into three main themes:

Communities Care We help people and communities across the country to use their talents to start and run small enterprises and community businesses that support and offer care to other local people. They create good local jobs and keep local money local. They help people live a good life, connected with and contributing to their community.

People Can

People sometimes need support to live their lives. The help they need can overshadow their skills. This waste of talent hurts the person, their community and society. We help people dream and make things happen. We help local organisations to create the conditions in which people can follow their dreams.

Innovators Learn We help people find ways to approach health and care that put people before systems. We offer accessible, engaging learning opportunities for practitioners and people who use health or care services. All our personal development programmes have a strong focus on people’s strengths, building on what works well.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

We work with people with experience of homelessness, offering opportunities to contribute to society and create solutions to homelessness.

Available in: Midlands

The Work We Do

We help people build power to spark movements for change in their communities – because when they do, problems get solved, lives become better and prospects improve.

This is not just about creating close-knit communities, but communities that are ambitious for their members’ health and happiness.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

We are catalytic field builders, helping the build and strengthen the field of relationship-centred practice. Through our work we aim to build understanding of why relationships matter; to connect up those who are putting relationships first; and to support individuals and organisations to embed relationship-centred practice in all that they do.

Available in: Yorks & Humber

The Work We Do

At KBOP we support people at risk of homelessness in Kirklees to live independent and fulfilling lives, in their own homes. Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership (KBOP) is an alliance of eight specialist organisations, collaborating to empower and enable individuals at risk of homelessness to achieve their potential and live independent and fulfilling lives. We focus on supporting and stabilising our participants’ accommodation, so they can live in a safe and settled home. At the same time, we work with participants to understand their goals and ambitions, doing whatever we can to empower them to achieve these. Operating as a “Floating Support” service, we return power back to an individual – so they can determine their own priorities and lead us in our support efforts. Using asset-based model to build on strengths, motivations, and personal ambitions, improving lives across a range of areas including: Accommodation, financial independence, substance misuse, reducing risk of reoffending, Domestic Abuse and ETE.

Available in: North East

The Work We Do

Lived Experience Recovery in the North East of England.

Available in: Wales, North East, North West, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

We are currently supporting and training our employees to provide support using strengths based, person led approach. We are working with the Mayday trust in this area.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

The Foyer Federation pioneers and leads a strengths-based approach called Advantaged Thinking that inspires, challenges and enables youth supported housing projects to work with young people who can’t live at home to realise their power and purpose.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

999 Club provides a friendly open door and support to anyone who is experiencing homelessness in Lewisham or Greenwich.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Yorks & Humber, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Our Gig Buddies project supports people with learning disabilities, and autistic people, to enjoy mainstream cultural activities by matching them with a volunteer with the same interests. The aim is to use the shared interest as a hook on which to build an ongoing friendship. We have licenced the project around the UK, in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. We have also supported AgeUK in Bradford to set up a version of the model for older people.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

Trauma-informed support to individuals who have been or are consistently homeless, where mainstream accommodation is not suitable.

People Seeking Support

Organisations taking a strengths-based approach to supporting people through tough times, walking alongside people managing long term challenges and assisting people to build skill and resilience.

People in Crisis

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

Creating a community around the most marginalised: older and homeless people and anyone who is loneliest.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

SAY Women offers safe semi-supported accommodation and emotional support for young women aged 16 to 25 who are survivors of sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault and who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness.

Available in: North West

The Work We Do

The Brick delivers effective solutions to address poverty and homelessness across the Wigan and Leigh Borough, providing supported and emergency accommodation services, street outreach services, wrap around person-led support, a food community and affordable furniture and essential household items to make a house a home.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

WLM (West London Mission) has been a vehicle for change since 1887. Our diverse projects share a common vision of enabling transformative change for individuals in challenging circumstances. We empower people affected by homelessness, poverty and trauma to make positive changes in their lives.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

At the core of Four Square are the values upon which the organisation is based. These are equally applied to the people we support, our colleagues and our partners and are: Integrity; Excellence; Dignity; Support. 

Youth services accommodations 

We provide safe supported accommodation to young people. We want to promote better health and wellbeing for all so our staff, volunteers and external organisations can deliver groups and courses in the building or take people out into the community to take part in anything from sports to employability groups to study groups. We also have visiting specialists who can offer housing and benefit advice and advocacy, life coaching and mentoring. Our skilled workforce approach individuals in a meaningful way with a tailored support plan that meet individual needs to support young people with the skills to manage their own tenancy. 

Women’s Services 

At our women services we support women who have experienced domestic or gender-based violence. We support them to feel safe and live in a place where they can build and move on with their lives successfully. 

Community Support services 

Our Visiting Support service provides person-centred support to people who may be at risk of becoming homeless. This can be due to rent arrears; not having benefits in place or the right benefits; health issues; unemployment; relationship breakdowns; you need to move to a more suitable home or must move due to violence or abuse or any other reason. We can also offer early support via our Early Intervention and Prevention Service to help you resolve any issues arising that may only need one-off or short-term intervention.  

Available in: Wales, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

KeyRing delivers flexible support that helps people to remove barriers to independence and focus on their aims and ambitions. KeyRing’s work is based around networks of support. People have their own home and are connected with other people supported by KeyRing in their area. People contribute and are connected to their local community.

We recognise that an independent life does not revolve around a support provider and encourages a wide range of connections, skill sharing and community involvement.

We promote an asset-based community development approach (ABCD), which means a focus on what people can do to take more control of their daily tasks and activities.

Available in: Yorks & Humber

The Work We Do

At KBOP we support people at risk of homelessness in Kirklees to live independent and fulfilling lives, in their own homes. Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership (KBOP) is an alliance of eight specialist organisations, collaborating to empower and enable individuals at risk of homelessness to achieve their potential and live independent and fulfilling lives. We focus on supporting and stabilising our participants’ accommodation, so they can live in a safe and settled home. At the same time, we work with participants to understand their goals and ambitions, doing whatever we can to empower them to achieve these. Operating as a “Floating Support” service, we return power back to an individual – so they can determine their own priorities and lead us in our support efforts. Using asset-based model to build on strengths, motivations, and personal ambitions, improving lives across a range of areas including: Accommodation, financial independence, substance misuse, reducing risk of reoffending, Domestic Abuse and ETE.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

The Foyer Federation pioneers and leads a strengths-based approach called Advantaged Thinking that inspires, challenges and enables youth supported housing projects to work with young people who can’t live at home to realise their power and purpose.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

Trauma-informed support to individuals who have been or are consistently homeless, where mainstream accommodation is not suitable.

People with Long Term Challenges

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

Creating a community around the most marginalised: older and homeless people and anyone who is loneliest.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

SAY Women offers safe semi-supported accommodation and emotional support for young women aged 16 to 25 who are survivors of sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault and who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness.

Available in: North West

The Work We Do

The Brick delivers effective solutions to address poverty and homelessness across the Wigan and Leigh Borough, providing supported and emergency accommodation services, street outreach services, wrap around person-led support, a food community and affordable furniture and essential household items to make a house a home.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

WLM (West London Mission) has been a vehicle for change since 1887. Our diverse projects share a common vision of enabling transformative change for individuals in challenging circumstances. We empower people affected by homelessness, poverty and trauma to make positive changes in their lives.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

We work with people with experience of homelessness, offering opportunities to contribute to society and create solutions to homelessness.

Available in: Midlands

The Work We Do

We help people build power to spark movements for change in their communities – because when they do, problems get solved, lives become better and prospects improve.

This is not just about creating close-knit communities, but communities that are ambitious for their members’ health and happiness.

Available in: Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Learning Disability England is bringing people and organisations together to create a movement for change where people with learning disabilities, families, friends and paid supporters come together on an equal basis. As a membership organisation, members work together to build a world where people with learning disabilities have good lives with equal choices and opportunities as others.

Available in: Wales, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

KeyRing delivers flexible support that helps people to remove barriers to independence and focus on their aims and ambitions. KeyRing’s work is based around networks of support. People have their own home and are connected with other people supported by KeyRing in their area. People contribute and are connected to their local community.

We recognise that an independent life does not revolve around a support provider and encourages a wide range of connections, skill sharing and community involvement.

We promote an asset-based community development approach (ABCD), which means a focus on what people can do to take more control of their daily tasks and activities.

Available in: North East

The Work We Do

Lived Experience Recovery in the North East of England.

Available in: Wales, North East, North West, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

We are currently supporting and training our employees to provide support using strengths based, person led approach. We are working with the Mayday trust in this area.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Yorks & Humber, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Our Gig Buddies project supports people with learning disabilities, and autistic people, to enjoy mainstream cultural activities by matching them with a volunteer with the same interests. The aim is to use the shared interest as a hook on which to build an ongoing friendship. We have licenced the project around the UK, in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. We have also supported AgeUK in Bradford to set up a version of the model for older people.

Available in: Scotland

The Work We Do

Trauma-informed support to individuals who have been or are consistently homeless, where mainstream accommodation is not suitable.

Prevention, Resilience, Skills

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

WLM (West London Mission) has been a vehicle for change since 1887. Our diverse projects share a common vision of enabling transformative change for individuals in challenging circumstances. We empower people affected by homelessness, poverty and trauma to make positive changes in their lives.

Available in: Greater London

The Work We Do

We work with people with experience of homelessness, offering opportunities to contribute to society and create solutions to homelessness.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

We are catalytic field builders, helping the build and strengthen the field of relationship-centred practice. Through our work we aim to build understanding of why relationships matter; to connect up those who are putting relationships first; and to support individuals and organisations to embed relationship-centred practice in all that they do.

Available in: Wales, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

KeyRing delivers flexible support that helps people to remove barriers to independence and focus on their aims and ambitions. KeyRing’s work is based around networks of support. People have their own home and are connected with other people supported by KeyRing in their area. People contribute and are connected to their local community.

We recognise that an independent life does not revolve around a support provider and encourages a wide range of connections, skill sharing and community involvement.

We promote an asset-based community development approach (ABCD), which means a focus on what people can do to take more control of their daily tasks and activities.

Available in: Yorks & Humber

The Work We Do

At KBOP we support people at risk of homelessness in Kirklees to live independent and fulfilling lives, in their own homes. Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership (KBOP) is an alliance of eight specialist organisations, collaborating to empower and enable individuals at risk of homelessness to achieve their potential and live independent and fulfilling lives. We focus on supporting and stabilising our participants’ accommodation, so they can live in a safe and settled home. At the same time, we work with participants to understand their goals and ambitions, doing whatever we can to empower them to achieve these. Operating as a “Floating Support” service, we return power back to an individual – so they can determine their own priorities and lead us in our support efforts. Using asset-based model to build on strengths, motivations, and personal ambitions, improving lives across a range of areas including: Accommodation, financial independence, substance misuse, reducing risk of reoffending, Domestic Abuse and ETE.

Available in: North East

The Work We Do

Lived Experience Recovery in the North East of England.

Available in: Wales, North East, North West, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

We are currently supporting and training our employees to provide support using strengths based, person led approach. We are working with the Mayday trust in this area.

Strategic Support

Organisations offering support to others who are looming at building on or implementing a strengths-based approach.

National and Sector Partnerships

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

AdviceUK’s Whole Person, Whole Community Approach: AdviceUK believes that for advice to make a difference, it needs to be integrated into the wider lives of individual people and the communities to which they belong. The Whole Person, Whole Community Approach provides a way of thinking that can be applied to any advice-giving activity, resource or service to achieve this integration.

Impact / Outcomes

We look to support our 700+ members apply the approach to the ways in which they give advice: with a focus on putting people and communities at the centre of how advice is given by community-based organisations.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, Greater London

The Work We Do

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships’ (BOP) mission is to radically change human services and environmental initiatives to both improve outcomes for people and the planet, and improve value for society. Our team works with governments, community groups, and specialist partners across the world to design, structure, deliver, and manage Outcomes Partnerships that enable people to genuinely improve their lives.

Outcomes Partnerships, using outcomes models, enable like-minded partners to come together around a shared vision; and by removing rigid specifications and budgets, they allow freedom to innovate in both design and delivery. Delivery organisations are actively encouraged to personalise their service for each individual, adapt it to the local environment, and make constant improvements as they learn. BOP focuses on three key principles in its work to improve lives over the long-term: Collaborative Design, Flexible Delivery and Clear Accountability.

Impact / Outcomes

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships’ team has world-leading experience in this area, having supported over 70 Outcomes Partnerships over the last decade, creating, in the UK, £129m worth of outcomes for over 48,000 people to date, and c.£1.3bn of public value.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

New Local are home to over 70 councils and other organisations, united in a drive to create sustainable and community-led public services. We explore new ideas on some of the most pressing issues we’re facing today – from welfare support to social care, to building economic resilience.

At the heart of New Local is the belief in community power – the idea that people should have more say over the places they live and the services they use. We believe a paradigm shift is needed to create sustainable public services, better places to live – and enhanced wellbeing for all.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Community Catalysts works in partnerships across the UK to try to make sure that people can be part of strong, inclusive, communities with real opportunities to connect, create and contribute. We work to ensure people can get help and care in ways, times and places that suit them, with a real choice of attractive local options. We help local people use their energies and talents and to establish enterprises and ventures. We use our expertise to help communities, organisations, authorities and policy makers to deliver transformational change in services or systems. We are often commissioned, contracted or funded by public, third or private sector organisations.

Our work themesWe group what we do into three main themes:

Communities Care We help people and communities across the country to use their talents to start and run small enterprises and community businesses that support and offer care to other local people. They create good local jobs and keep local money local. They help people live a good life, connected with and contributing to their community.

People Can

People sometimes need support to live their lives. The help they need can overshadow their skills. This waste of talent hurts the person, their community and society. We help people dream and make things happen. We help local organisations to create the conditions in which people can follow their dreams.

Innovators Learn We help people find ways to approach health and care that put people before systems. We offer accessible, engaging learning opportunities for practitioners and people who use health or care services. All our personal development programmes have a strong focus on people’s strengths, building on what works well.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Homeless Link provides information and support to organisations working to end homelessness across England. We developed a toolkit about strengths-based practice and a series of free online trainings which can be accessed on our Knowledge Hub: https://homeless.org.uk/knowledge-hub/

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Free suite of resources on sustainable capacity within organisations, leaders and systems.

Support for Commissioners

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

AdviceUK’s Whole Person, Whole Community Approach: AdviceUK believes that for advice to make a difference, it needs to be integrated into the wider lives of individual people and the communities to which they belong. The Whole Person, Whole Community Approach provides a way of thinking that can be applied to any advice-giving activity, resource or service to achieve this integration.

Impact / Outcomes

We look to support our 700+ members apply the approach to the ways in which they give advice: with a focus on putting people and communities at the centre of how advice is given by community-based organisations.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, Greater London

The Work We Do

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships’ (BOP) mission is to radically change human services and environmental initiatives to both improve outcomes for people and the planet, and improve value for society. Our team works with governments, community groups, and specialist partners across the world to design, structure, deliver, and manage Outcomes Partnerships that enable people to genuinely improve their lives.

Outcomes Partnerships, using outcomes models, enable like-minded partners to come together around a shared vision; and by removing rigid specifications and budgets, they allow freedom to innovate in both design and delivery. Delivery organisations are actively encouraged to personalise their service for each individual, adapt it to the local environment, and make constant improvements as they learn. BOP focuses on three key principles in its work to improve lives over the long-term: Collaborative Design, Flexible Delivery and Clear Accountability.

Impact / Outcomes

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships’ team has world-leading experience in this area, having supported over 70 Outcomes Partnerships over the last decade, creating, in the UK, £129m worth of outcomes for over 48,000 people to date, and c.£1.3bn of public value.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

New Local are home to over 70 councils and other organisations, united in a drive to create sustainable and community-led public services. We explore new ideas on some of the most pressing issues we’re facing today – from welfare support to social care, to building economic resilience.

At the heart of New Local is the belief in community power – the idea that people should have more say over the places they live and the services they use. We believe a paradigm shift is needed to create sustainable public services, better places to live – and enhanced wellbeing for all.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Homeless Link provides information and support to organisations working to end homelessness across England. We developed a toolkit about strengths-based practice and a series of free online trainings which can be accessed on our Knowledge Hub: https://homeless.org.uk/knowledge-hub/

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Free suite of resources on sustainable capacity within organisations, leaders and systems.

Support for Organisations and Providers

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

AdviceUK’s Whole Person, Whole Community Approach: AdviceUK believes that for advice to make a difference, it needs to be integrated into the wider lives of individual people and the communities to which they belong. The Whole Person, Whole Community Approach provides a way of thinking that can be applied to any advice-giving activity, resource or service to achieve this integration.

Impact / Outcomes

We look to support our 700+ members apply the approach to the ways in which they give advice: with a focus on putting people and communities at the centre of how advice is given by community-based organisations.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, Greater London

The Work We Do

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships’ (BOP) mission is to radically change human services and environmental initiatives to both improve outcomes for people and the planet, and improve value for society. Our team works with governments, community groups, and specialist partners across the world to design, structure, deliver, and manage Outcomes Partnerships that enable people to genuinely improve their lives.

Outcomes Partnerships, using outcomes models, enable like-minded partners to come together around a shared vision; and by removing rigid specifications and budgets, they allow freedom to innovate in both design and delivery. Delivery organisations are actively encouraged to personalise their service for each individual, adapt it to the local environment, and make constant improvements as they learn. BOP focuses on three key principles in its work to improve lives over the long-term: Collaborative Design, Flexible Delivery and Clear Accountability.

Impact / Outcomes

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships’ team has world-leading experience in this area, having supported over 70 Outcomes Partnerships over the last decade, creating, in the UK, £129m worth of outcomes for over 48,000 people to date, and c.£1.3bn of public value.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Having worked for organisations for 30 years, I am utilising my drive for systems change, my skills, experience and global relationships to shift perception of the work place.

Organisations set up to work with communities, are experiencing unprecedented challenges. Retention, recruitment, compassion fatigue and low levels of staff engagement, have become ‘stuck’ systemic issues.

Through my high support / high challenge approach, I have the ability and experience of enabling organisations to refocus on relationships, making purpose conscious, sustaining meaning to contribute to other people.

Leaning into complexity and learning how to transcend the multiple systemic paradoxes needs a collective perspective shift, which I am able to facilitate.

Impact / Outcomes

I have worked with multiple organisations including SWIM, Turning Point, Sussex Uni, Brighton Uni, Voice 21, Women in Prison and the International Bateson Institute,. I have helped foster values based leadership and behaviours, radical include marginalised groups and evoke confidence in collaborative action to elicit transformative change across communities.

In the last organisation I worked for, I worked systemically to bring significant culture change over 3 years, to focus board governance not only on legal and financial duties, but in the needs of excluded groups in uncertain and complex times. I trained 400 leaders in complex decision making, values led leadership and relational governing. The implementation of ethical decision making and just and fair cultural practices directly impacted on women and people with origins in the global majority in the workforce and groups who have never been provided for in communities, including SE Asian women and black men.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

New Local are home to over 70 councils and other organisations, united in a drive to create sustainable and community-led public services. We explore new ideas on some of the most pressing issues we’re facing today – from welfare support to social care, to building economic resilience.

At the heart of New Local is the belief in community power – the idea that people should have more say over the places they live and the services they use. We believe a paradigm shift is needed to create sustainable public services, better places to live – and enhanced wellbeing for all.

Available in: North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Community Catalysts works in partnerships across the UK to try to make sure that people can be part of strong, inclusive, communities with real opportunities to connect, create and contribute. We work to ensure people can get help and care in ways, times and places that suit them, with a real choice of attractive local options. We help local people use their energies and talents and to establish enterprises and ventures. We use our expertise to help communities, organisations, authorities and policy makers to deliver transformational change in services or systems. We are often commissioned, contracted or funded by public, third or private sector organisations.

Our work themesWe group what we do into three main themes:

Communities Care We help people and communities across the country to use their talents to start and run small enterprises and community businesses that support and offer care to other local people. They create good local jobs and keep local money local. They help people live a good life, connected with and contributing to their community.

People Can

People sometimes need support to live their lives. The help they need can overshadow their skills. This waste of talent hurts the person, their community and society. We help people dream and make things happen. We help local organisations to create the conditions in which people can follow their dreams.

Innovators Learn We help people find ways to approach health and care that put people before systems. We offer accessible, engaging learning opportunities for practitioners and people who use health or care services. All our personal development programmes have a strong focus on people’s strengths, building on what works well.

Available in: Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

The Work We Do

Learning Disability England is bringing people and organisations together to create a movement for change where people with learning disabilities, families, friends and paid supporters come together on an equal basis. As a membership organisation, members work together to build a world where people with learning disabilities have good lives with equal choices and opportunities as others.

Available in: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, North East, North West, Yorks & Humber, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Greater London

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