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Cricles Network
The Circles Network is a national voluntary organisation formed in 1994 to help disabled people to become more involved, integrated and heard in their communities. Key to their work are ‘circles of support’ – groups of friends, family and community members working together to help individuals to achieve their goals.
Community Open Programme
Thorplands
Thorplands is an estate on the outskirts of Northampton and is home to around 8,500 people. But it is also in the top 20% of deprived communities in the country, with serious problems involving crime, vandalism and intimidation. James O’Rourke decided to tackle these problems head on by bringing people together to improve their community and that is how the Thorplands and Thorpland Brook Community Co-operative was born.
Community Open Programme
Advice Centre

The East European Advice Centre evolved from the Polish Refugee Rights Group which was set up in 1981 to assist people stranded in Britain during Poland’s period of Martial Law. Its aim is to help any socially and economically disadvantaged Eastern Europeans in their efforts to settle in the UK.
Community Open Programme
Poetry can be a powerful therapeutic tool for people who have experienced mental health problems or are survivors of abuse or addiction. That is what motivated and inspired four poets to found Survivors’ Poetry in 1991. This London-based national charity promotes and publishes the writing of people who have experienced mental distress – many who have never written before. And it has evolved into a truly grassroots organisation, with survivors represented at every level – from board, to staff and volunteers.
Community Open Programme
Prison Radio Association
Almost 70% of male prisoners reoffend – and this is linked to lack of education, training, employment and family contact. The aim of the PRA is to use prison radio to tackle these issues by involving prisoners in education, developing their skills and confidence, and “providing a bridge back to the community”.
Community Priority Programme
Cyswilt Ceredigion Contact Ltd
Cyswllt Ceredigion Contact is an Aberystwyth based day service set up in 1992 to provide help, advice and support for people with drug and alcohol problems and  their families. Their dedicated, specialist trained staff provide a range of services and a holistic approach to recovery in a caring and supportive environment.
Community Priority Programme
Leeds Asylum
Many asylum seekers are fleeing violence, oppression or any other number of horrors in their own countries – they arrive in a strange country unable to communicate and lost as to how to function in an alien culture. Many end up alone, destitute and frightened of the future.
Community Priority Programme
North Dorset Furniture
Every year thousands of tonnes of furniture and white goods are buried in landfill. But a unique project based in North Dorset aims to put an end to this waste – and benefit many different parts of the local community in the process.
Community Priority Programme
Tamworth

What would life be like if you couldn’t jump in your car, or on a bus or train to get where you want to go? And how would you manage if going to the shops or the GP was a real struggle?  Tamworth Community Transport provides an invaluable service for people – mainly older and disabled people – who do not have access to their own transport and find it difficult to use public transport.

Community Priority Programme
YMCA Consett
The YWCA works with young women from Gypsy and Traveller communities – one of the most disadvantaged groups of young women in England and Wales. They run services to support this largely unheard group, and campaign to combat the discrimination that they face.
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