Members Directory

Columbia Village Community Association

Combined Touch Community Interest Company

We are a Community Centre and Day Centre. The Centre is designed for older people and people with Dementia. We welcome volunteers primarily from the retired sector to visit and also to help our service users. In this way we hope to combat social isolation and loneliness. We have space for a small number of Service Users and believe in person centred care.

Common Purpose North East

Communities Together Durham

Community & Voluntary Action Blyth Valley

Community and Voluntary Action Blyth Valley serves, facilitates and benefits the voluntary and community sector in Blyth, Cramlington and Seaton Valley.

CVABV offer funding advice, information, support, guidance, training and a range of other services.

All of our services are tailored to the needs of the individual organisation due to the very varied needs within our diverse communities.

Community Action Northumberland (CAN)

CAN exists to provide a voice for rural Northumberland, to empower organisations and support individuals. This means understanding the issues and needs faced, working with organisations and communities to meet these needs and implementing projects to address gaps.
Since 1951, we have been supporting village hall committees, and other community buildings, sustaining and enhancing their role as core centres of service delivery. Parish and Town Councils have also always been fundamental to the way we work and this has become ever more important as public services diminish within the context of public sector financial restraint and the drive towards localism.
We also work with local communities and organisations to help meet their needs. Current activities including:
• Warm Hubs -- a project ensuring people have a safe and warm place to go during the winter months to access a warm meal, good company and other support.
• Employment Project -- a pilot project helping those distant from the labour market with different issues to gain confidence in seeking jobs and training opportunities. Other communities are keen to see this successful project extended.
• Community buildings -- providing a comprehensive support service to village halls and community buildings.
• Rural Connect -- coordinating a network of rural enterprise hubs across the rural North East
• Communities CAN – a joint initiative with local Community Land Trusts to promote and deliver affordable community-led homes.

Community Campus '87 (Cleveland) Ltd

MORE THAN JUST A ROOF………

Here at Community Campus, we provide affordable housing and support as well as training opportunities across Teesside.

We go that extra mile to ensure that homeless people in our region get the support that they need to make positive steps to live and work independently. We work closely with a network of stakeholders to make this happen.

As a community based social enterprise, our trading company provides construction services, these include property renovations and general maintenance services.

Striving to build a stronger community, we encourage involvement from businesses and individuals to help to combat homelessness in our area.

Community Counselling Cooperative

Community Foundation North East

The Community Foundation grows giving and philanthropy, matching generous people to important causes in our community. Every year, we award grants to 100s of small charities in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, and across North East England, through funds set up by our donors.

Community Furniture Service

Community Help And Neighbourly Care For Everyone

Community Music Whickham and Swalwell

CMWS makes provision for anyone in the community to have their creative aspirations encouraged, supported and developed. Also to achieve their best personal standard of excellence in performance of music and have their self esteem, see confidence,emotional and physical well-being improved in a welcoming and friendly organisation.

Community Opportunities

Community Opportunities provides a range of community services across the City of Sunderland

Community Sustainability Services (CSS)

CSS is a registered charity which has been established for over 20 years. We are based in Sunderland with one branch in Southwick and one in Thorney Close. We support a wide range of vulnerable people within our region and this equates to approximately 5,200 people each year.

We provide low cost furniture, re-use, upcycling and recycling facilities, plus a Handyperson Service.

Our re-use operation provides those who are on a low income with much needed furniture for their homes. An example is where someone may have recently been allocated a property via a social landlord and they are in need of items such as reused sofas, wardrobes and beds as well as most other pieces of furniture that may be required. We offer various items of new furniture for sale as well as donated items. We also provide services for disabled people, in particular those with mental health issues through placements at our Furniture Reuse Workshop and we offer occasional employment opportunities here
Alongside this we provide disadvantaged people with various work experience placements and volunteering opportunities throughout our organisation.

Through operating all of our services we divert approximately 80 tonnes of bulky waste from landfill each year.

Community Transport

Community transport and furniture poverty prevention

Community Ventures Ltd

Community Ventures (Middlesbrough) Ltd (CVL) is a support hub with bases in Thorntree and North Ormesby areas of Middlesbrough. We provide a base for other voluntary/support organisations to offer training, outreach activities, and wrap-around specialist support; in addition to these, CVL provides pre-school nursery, supported tenancies, grassroots job clubs, art groups, online activities, after-school clubs, learning projects, outdoor activities, volunteering, and other community-led activities

Community@NE66

Community@NE66 is a Community and Youth Development Charity project which grew from a desire to provide a firmer footing to the youth work in our area of Alnwick (which ranks in the 23rd-26th percentile of deprivation), and to improve the aspirations of the community, many of whom have multiple complex needs. The Charitable Trust was set up in 2017 and six Trustees with varied experience within education, local government, and community work oversee the Trust. The activities are headed up by a Project Manager (who is also the Senior Youth Worker), supported by three part-time Youth Workers, a Project Development Worker, and a group of volunteers (three of whom are our older young people); further details at http://communityatne66.co.uk/meet-the-team.

Compass Family Time Service

Compass Family Time provides community based supervised contact and safe handover services across the North East. We specialise in supporting families affected by domestic abuse, coercive control, and high conflict separation, ensuring children can maintain safe and positive relationships with parents.
Our services include fully supervised contact, supported handovers, factual contact notes, and court ready reporting. Sessions are child centred, trauma informed, and delivered in risk assessed community venues. We offer evening and weekend availability to support working families and complex arrangements.
Compass Family Time works in line with NACCC standards and is currently progressing through the Enhanced Accreditation process. The service is fully insured and led by an Enhanced DBS checked practitioner with over 20 years of experience in domestic abuse, safeguarding, and family support.

Complex Connexions CIC

Complex Connexions CIC supports the parents of a child or teen who is struggling, and therefore presenting with challenging behavior, at school ar at home. This is most often due to neurodivergence or mental health difficulties. We enable the parents to repair connections in their family to create calm and confidence rather than strife and conflict. We support parents to reframe their young person's behaviour through a neuroscience-informed understanding and also to empower them through communication. All of these form the foundations for stronger connections in the family, which supports every family member's mental wellbeing.

Connected Voice

Connected Voice (formerly Newcastle CVS) provides a trusted, independent voice to individuals who struggle to be heard and support to voluntary and community organisations in Newcastle and Gateshead to be more resilient and sustainable. We do this by :
- using our established reputation and signposting within our extensive networks
- working with integrity and strength to promote social justice and a fairer society
- influencing and challenging the debate