Our investees

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  • 4Children: (formerly Kids' Club Network) is the national charity dedicated to creating opportunities and building futures for children. 
  • Action in Rural Sussex: responding to the needs of rural communities by providing practical help and helping villages in Sussex remain vibrant living and working places.
  • Age Concern Calderdale: promoting the well-being of all older people in Calderdale - recognising their right to independence, fulfilment, dignity and choice; working with them to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
  • Age Concern Suffolk: working with and for senior citizens in Suffolk, campaigns on their behalf and is a provider of direct services and support across the county.
  • Albanian Youth Action: aiming to help young Albanian speaking refugees adapt to life in the UK and achieve their potential, while retaining links with their own culture.
  • All Saints Community Development Company: providing better facilities and delivering new and improved services at the heart of the community in Birmingham.
  • Alt Valley Community Trust: championing a range of progressive education, training, employment and well-being activities that are relevant to the needs of the Alt Valley Liverpool communities.
  • Antidote: working with schools and children's services to help shape emotional environments that give young people the best possible opportunity to achieve and make a positive contribution
  • Ariel Trust: helping young people get jobs in the media by developing communication skills and professionalism.
  • Asian Peoples' Disability Alliance: providing culturally-sensitive user-led social care, health and education services to Asian people with disabilities, elders, their families and their carers.
  • Bangladesh Youth Cultural Shomiti: providing lifelong learning and community development activities for people mainly, but not exclusively, of Bangladeshi descent, living in Leicester.
  • Bangladeshi Parents and Carers Association: actively working to raise awareness of the rights and entitlements of disabled Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets.
  • Basement Studio: a Bristol-based charity providing youth work and music opportunities for 13-19 year-olds.
  • BASIC (Brain And Spinal Injury Centre): has set up an assisted exercise gym for people who need to exercise but cannot use a conventional gym due to their disability. 
  • BIBIC (British Institute for Brain Injured Children): offering practical help to families caring for children traumatic and acquired brain injury and specific learning difficulties.
  • Birkenhead YMCA: providing a range of activities from residential outings and field trips to a selection of educational and recreational computer courses.
  • Birmingham Institute for the Deaf (BID): working to support the deaf community in the West Midlands. 
  • British Liver Trust: seeks to inform, support and advise people who are concerned about or living with liver disease.
  • Broadreach House: offering treatment and support for those suffering the effects of dependence.
  • Building Block Solutions: a social enterprise based in Mansfield, Notts offering a range of services that support people in making their lives more sustainable.
  • Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB): is an independent charitable organisation that helps people resolve their problems by providing information and advice.
  • Cambridge Independent Advice Centre: providing free, independent and confidential advice and advocacy to people on low incomes.
  • Catz Club: a not-for-profit organisation, runs clubs on a number of school premises that provide childcare incorporating curriculum support in literacy and numeracy.
  • Centre for African Families Positive Health (CAFPH): working with African families affected by HIV/AIDS in Bedfordshire and surrounding areas.
  • Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: an educational centre for schools and teachers, parents, teaching assistants and other educators.
  • Chiltern Centre for Disabled Children: providing support and play, leisure and respite services to families with disabled children and young people across the Thames Valley.
  • Chinese National Healthy Living Centre: aiming to promote holistic healthy living, and to provide access to health services, for the Chinese community in the UK.
  • Connect Community Transport (South Tyneside): is a not-for-profit business providing high quality accessible transport for community and voluntary groups in South Tyneside. 
  • Cotswold Council For Voluntary Services: promoting and supporting volunteers services to the benefit of the community in the Cotswolds.
  • Cottingley Cornerstone: a unique scheme to create a new centre for Cottingley (an outer urban estate in Bradford) West Yorkshire, to include a wide range of community facilities.
  • Cumbria Learning Links: serves all third sector organisations in Cumbria concerned with, or involved with, learning and training for staff, volunteers, service users, trustees or the community.
  • Dance United: bringing individuals and communities together to seek creative solutions to social interaction and personal growth.
  • DCT Making Dreams Come True LTD: providing stimulating leisure time activities for young people In Preston.
  • Derwent Stepping Stones: a flexible and responsive organisation passionate about the needs of local families in the Derwent community.
  • DISC: (Developing Initiatives Supporting Communities): is an independent charity that focuses on helping deprived and excluded people who have slipped through the net of statutory provision.
  • Dormers Wells Trust: providing a range of services for the local community, linked particularly to health and well being.
  • Enable: Enable is the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium.
  • Equinox Care: providing residential and community services to people with drug, alcohol and mental health problems.
  • FATIMA Women's Network: a Forum for Advocacy, Training and Information in a Multi-cultural Arena.
  • First Step: is an opportunity group for children with special needs and their families.
  • Foresight (North East Lincolnshire): is a registered charity based in Grimsby in Lincolnshire helping the blind and visually impaired in the local community.
  • Foundations UK: assisting vulnerable homeowners or private sector tenants who are older, disabled or on low income to repair, improve, maintain or adapt their home.
  • Foyer Federation: providing accommodation with opportunities for young people, and a health-promoting community in which they can grow and thrive.
  • Friends Centre: providing adult learning services in Brighton and Hove.
  • Genesis (EMCDA): A social enterprise offering dental services in areas with little or no NHS dental service provision.
  • Get Well UK: makes it possible for GPs to confidently refer their patients to complementary therapists, by providing information, support and a team of highly skilled and qualified practitioners.
  • Groundswell UK: project that promotes and develops self-help initiatives with people who are homeless, excluded or living in poverty.
  • Groundwork Dearne Valley (GDV): working with local people to improve their environment and we provide training to help local people find work.
  • Hamlet Centre Trust: providing high quality services for the relief of children and young adults with special needs in Norfolk.
  • Harrogate District Community Transport: providing community transport solutions to urban and rural areas of Harrogate District.
  • Havering Association of Voluntary and Community Organisations: assisting the work of voluntary and community organisations in the London Borough of Havering.
  • Headway Black Country: a specialist care foundation working for the benefit of brain injury survivors and their families in the West Midlands.
  • Headway Dorset: promoting wider understanding of brain injury and provides information, advice and support to people with brain injuries, their families and carers.
  • Herefordshire Centre for Independent Living: a user-led organisation for disabled people providing independent living services to disabled and older people throughout Herefordshire.
  • Hove YMCA: offering help to young people who are isolated and struggling through homelessness, exclusion from school, family breakdown, poor mental health or drug and alcohol problems.
  • Humberside Learning Consortium (HLC): aiming to encourage and support learning in the Humber sub-region by making it easier to access and provide learning opportunities.
  • Hull Women's Network: bringing women's organisations together into a strategic partnership for the benefit of women in Hull.
  • Impact Integrated Medicine Partnership: is a social enterprise which provides acupuncture, chiropractic and homeopathy in primary care settings.
  • InSpire at St Peter: offering a chance for young people and older people to develop their talents.
  • Integrated Development and Support Services (IDSS): is a non profit organisation providing personalised support to vulnerable members of the community, including young offenders and those who need personal help in their homes.
  • John Grooms: providing the highest quality residential care, housing and holidays for disabled people, so they achieve greater independence, choice and freedom.
  • Kajans Women: aiming to create a sustainable, culturally attractive and fully accessible arts and education centre in Aston, Birmingham.
  • Kickstart: addressing issues around young people, social inclusion and crime, particularly motorcrime, offering training and community safety initiatives.
  • LEARN.org.uk Ltd: The vision of LEARN.org.uk ltd is to continue piloting and delivering education projects at home and abroad.
  • Learning Links: is a Hampshire based social enterprise and registered charity that delivers learning opportunities and training to address issues related to social exclusion.
  • Learning Together Cheshire and Warrington: enabling third sector organisations in Cheshire and Warrington to play a part in the development and delivery of learning to the benefit of constituencies.
  • Leeds Community Mediation Service: providing mediation/conciliation to help the people of Leeds (and neighbouring areas) to respond to conflict constructively.
  • Lewisham Community Development Partnership (LCDP): (formerly the Wells Park Health Project) is a community development health charity working with the people of Lewisham to improve health and well being.
  • Littlehampton Churches Together Homelink: working together to provide access to housing for those in the Arun district who are designated as "non-priority" under current homelessness legislation.
  • Liverpool Crossroads Caring for Carers Ltd: providing stand-in care and support to carers throughout Liverpool, Sefton and Warrington.
  • Living Springs Family Centre: is a charitable residential home and day centre for families and young children in the West Midlands.
  • London Bubble Theatre Company: attracting a wide range of audiences and participants to inventive and unpredictable events that reflect the diversity of our city and its people.
  • Love and Joy Ministries Group: supporting church congregations within local communities in Liverpool and beyond.
  • MED Theatre: a developmental community theatre company whose core theme is the creative interpretation of Dartmoor.
  • Mentor Foundation: is an international non-government not for profit organisation with a focus on the prevention of drug misuse and the promotion of health and well-being of young people.
  • Music For Change: an educational charity promoting awareness, understanding and respect for cultural diversity through music and the performing arts in order to achieve beneficial change.
  • Nafsiyat: providing high quality, low cost, community based 'intercultural' psychodynamic psychotherapy in North London for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. 
  • NOAH Enterprise: a Christian charity that helps the most disadvantaged in the local community.
  • Nottingham Regional Society for Autistic Children and Adults (NORSACA): offers residential, day and education services for people with autism.
  • North Liverpool Citizens’ Advice Bureau: providing free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information to the communities of North Liverpool.
  • Northumberland County Blind Association: providing resources and information for visually impared and blind people in the Northumberland area.   
  • Off the Record Bath and NE Somerset: providing free and confidential information, advice and counseling for young people.
  • Omega Community Living: meeting multiple mental health needs and promoting greater independence for people affected by mental disability in Newham, London.
  • Options for Life: enabling people with learning disabilities to advance their personal development and lead a full life in the community.
  • Ormiston Children and Families Trust: working to uphold the rights of children and young people in Ormiston. 
  • Peacemaker: initially set up to help to overcome the fear, prejudice and segregation prevalent across Oldham, Peacemaker is at the forefront of anti-racist work across England.
  • Pecan: helping disadvantaged people - especially the unemployed - through various training and motivational projects in Peckham, Elephant & Castle, Camberwell, Orpington, Burwell and Hackney.
  • Pie Music Factory: is a charity set up to provide music and related arts workshops for young people across East Kent.
  • Positive Action South West: offers a holistic response to the needs of people living with HIV and their carers through a comprehensive programme of training and education.
  • Positive Steps Oldham (PSO): is an independent sector company providing an integrated range of services to enable young people across Oldham to make a successful transition into adult life.
  • PRESET: is an Education and Employment Charitable Trust which aims to empower young people through needs focussed training and support.
  • Proud City: the first accredited centre for the Individual Profile in Active Citizenship - uniquely recognising socially responsible and respectful activities in the public sector.
  • RNID: aiming to make daily life better for deaf and hard of hearing people through campaigning, services, information and support of scientific and technological research.
  • Rochdale Connections Trust: is a project designed to reintegrate disaffected young people back into education, training or work.
  • SCA Healthcare: has been founded to extend, improve and re-invent health care and service provision.
  • Sector Services: bringing the workplace closer to those whose opportunities have been restricted by their mental health issues in Southampton.
  • Sefton Carers: leading the development of local, regional and nation policies that are sensitive to the needs of carers.
  • Shield South Yorkshire HIV Support Group: committed to improving the quality of life of those infected and affected by HIV.
  • Sound Base Studios Trust: providing innovative music and multimedia training designed to empower and support young people in developing their social responsibility and professional ambitions.
  • South Yorkshire Voluntary and Community Sector Training Consortium: building a sustainable community of responsive learning providers committed to tackling disadvantage.
  • Springboard Opportunity Group: a specialist provider for pre-school children with special needs in North Somerset.
  • St. Albans City and District Bereavement Network: enabling anyone in St. Albans City and District to have access to bereavement support.
  • St. Albans Mencap: is a local charity that supports those with learning disabilities and provides a range of leisure and recreational activities.
  • St. Christopher’s Fellowship: providing a unique combination of care, accommodation, housing, education, training and support to children, young people and vulnerable adults.
  • St. Giles Trust: prevents offending and improves community safety by enabling disadvantaged offenders and homeless people to build independent and successful lives.
  • Stepping Stones Preschool: a non-profit making charity offering pre-school education within the rapidly expanding town of Brackley, in South Northamptonshire.
  • Stoke Community Culture Group: aims to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged Asian women in the Stoke area of Coventry.
  • Streetscene: providing residential treatment using cognitive behavioural techniques, evidence based therapy as well as re-integration, aftercare and life skills training.
  • StreetVibes Youth: an awarding-winning not-for-profit urban arts organisation dedicated to providing accredited routes into education and professional training for young people and disadvantaged adults.
  • Surrey Association for Visual Impairment: providing practical support, advice and services to blind and partially sighted people of all ages in the county of Surrey.
  • Surrey Care Trust: working across the county with people who face disadvantage or hardship and giving practical help to individuals and families in need.
  • The Adolescent Children's Trust (TACT): is a registered charity that provides child-centred services to Local Authorities throughout the UK.
  • Theatre Resource: an educational charity which exists to advance and promote the creativity, culture and heritage of disabled people and other socially excluded groups for the benefit of all.
  • The Camden Society: promoting a better standard of living for all people with learning disabilities throughout London by providing employment and vocational training, housing support, and community and day services.
  • The City of London Migraine Clinic: an independent medical charity offering a service to people with migraine and the medical community.
  • The Learning Disabilities Federation (LDF): providing respite care to support people with learning disabilities and their carers.
  • The Lighthouse Group: helping young people who are at crisis in their education through exclusion.
  • The National Blind Children's Society: enables blind and partially sighted children and young people to achieve their educational and recreational goals.
  • The Nelson Trust: ensuring that people with alcohol, drug and other dependencies are offered the best possible opportunity for a healthy and fulfilling life through high quality treatment, support and resettlement programmes.
  • The Peaceful Place: caters for the recreational needs of physically active members of the community with dementia.
  • The Pupil Parent Partnership: providing behavioural support for disaffected and marginalised young people, especially those who have not been allocated a school place or have been excluded from school.
  • The Treehouse Trust: aiming is to transform through education the lives of children with autism and the lives of their families.
  • Those On The Margins Of A Society (THOMAS): is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation programme offering people the opportunity to rebuild their lives by finding a solution to the problems of addiction.
  • Total Healthcare Practice: a community interest, nurse-led organisation adopting a holistic approach to health and wellness for the individual, families, groups and diverse communities.
  • Training For Life: offers supported vocational learning for socially excluded people, initially in the London Borough of Southwark.
  • Trinity Sailing Trust: assisting the personal development of disadvantaged and disabled young people through offshore sailing on traditional vessels.
  • Trinity Winchester: providing services for those experiencing the effects of homelessness, substance misuse, poverty, unemployment and social isolation.
  • Turkish Cypriot Women’s Project: developing employability skills training for Turkish Cypriot women in North London
  • Urban Voice: using the creative arts, particularly music, to offer a holistic approach to personal and creative development, particularly for young people under threat of exclusion.
  • Voluntary Action Leicester: as the Local Development Agency in Leicester, our role is to help voluntary and community groups and local charities in their development.
  • Waltham Forest Mencap: working with and for local people with learning disabilty, and their families. 
  • West End Health Resource Centre: providing holistic activities and services for people living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods to keep well, to get better after being ill, and also to improve their fitness.
  • Westminster Children's Society: supporting local families with childcare and family services, including child-centered nursery care and education for children of the local community.
  • West Norfolk Carers: improving the health and quality of life for Carers in West Norfolk.
  • WHCM: working with all people in East London and Essex, especially those who feel isolated, excluded or marginalised through personal, emotional or mental health difficulties.
  • Who Cares Trust: working to improve public care for children and young people who are separated from their families and living in residential or foster care.
  • Woman’s Trust: providing independent, confidential women-only services to women who have been or are affected by domestic violence.
  • Woodlands Hospice Charitable Trust: tailoring care to meet the needs of the individual to enhance quality of life.
  • Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain: overseeing the development of a support and safety mechanism aimed at reducing re-offending by high-risk sex offenders.
  • Yemeni Economic and Training Centre (YETC): serving to address the social and economic disadvantage faced by Yemenis through a focused program of training, education and enterprise initiatives.