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Inclusion Sports Foundation

Our organisation is committed to promoting inclusivity, physical activity, and community engagement through various sports initiatives. With a focus on football, boxing, and boccia, we aim to cater to individuals of all ages and abilities, fostering a sense of belonging and well-being within our communities. Our efforts align with the charitable mission to advance amateur sports and promote health and social welfare, ensuring equal opportunities for participation and development.

Independent Advocacy North East

Independent Advocacy North East (IANE) provides a range of free advocacy services to residents of North Tyneside; these include case, citizen, self and group advocacy to adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health problems, people with Dementia and people with communication difficulties. IANE also provides an IMHA (Independent Mental Health Advocacy) service; this is a statutory service for North Tyneside residents detained or conditionally discharged under the Mental Health Act. As advocates we support people to speak up and express their views and wishes when they feel they cannot do this for themselves or they feel they are not being listened to.

Independent Age

Inner Light Wellbeing CIC

Inner Light Wellbeing is a health and wellbeing Community Interest Company based in the Northeast of England that provides health and wellbeing programs for people within the areas of Gateshead, Durham, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland who are suffering from mental health problems due to their personal circumstances, specifically bereavement and carers, of loved ones who are ill, disabled, suffer challenging behaviour or have additional needs, and require support and educated on the relevance of self-care for their mental health and wellbeing, enabling them to be at their best for dealing with their daily challenges.

The vision is to build a business that changes the issues surrounding mental health across the Northeast of England. To achieve the implementation of a structured health and wellbeing program for individuals and businesses to access to inform, educate, support and inspire.

Through our multifaceted approach, Inner Light Wellbeing will:
• Facilitate direct contact through peer-to-peer support groups
• Organise and host Health and Wellbeing events across the Northeast of England.
• Provision of Health and Wellbeing training to local authority and corporate staff
• To recruit a panel of professionals
• Use revenue from our profits to provide an emergency fund for people in crisis.

Inside Outside Community Development CIC

Inside Outside will facilitate asset based community led activities subsequently creating new opportunities, increasing people's self esteem and improving or developing functional skills that will enhance day to day living, volunteering opportunities and employability.

Inspire North / Foundation

Foundation has been working for over 30 years in the North of England building better lives.
We believe in social justice, fairness and the right to belong. Support to manage a tenancy, find a job, tackle addiction or improve relationships; we build on the strengths of individuals, families and communities to make a lasting difference.

Inspire South Tyneside

Inspire South Tyneside will lead by example to create healthy environments for the staff, volunteers and communities, working to an alliancing approach for its future development.
We will support the sustainability of the sector by facilitating networks, fashioned on the HealthNet model, offering assistance and advice in the following areas; Funding, Governance, volunteering, representation, data and information, integration and collaboration.

Inspire Youth Tyne and Wear

We are a community interest company, providing play & youth sessions for all children and young people of newcastle and north tyneside aged 5 - 19 years. All of our sessions are free and a snack is provided. The sessions are a safe place for children and young people to attend to socialise, engage in activities, learn new skills, take part in projects and have fun.

Integrating Children & Young People

Integrating Children and Young People provides access to community based recreational and leisure facilities for children and young people with disabilities.

Integration Station

International Centre for Life Trust

The Centre for Life is the only public science centre in the North of England and welcomes around 280,000 visitors each year. Life’s mission is two-fold; to make science engaging and accessible to everyone and to provide infrastructure support so that world-class science on-site can flourish. The Life "science village" is a unique model combining research, medicine, business, ethics, education and public engagement.

We believe that engaging with informal science activities has many benefits: it can boost people’s self-confidence and social relationships within their family and peer groups; it can give them confidence to engage with the science and technology in everyday life and it can set them on a pathway to new leisure, education and career possibilities.

International Community Organisation of Sunderland (ICOS)

Website: icos.org.uk International Community Organisation of Sunderland (ICOS) exists to improve the quality of life of BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) people in the North East and to enhance community cohesion and intercultural understanding in this area. We focus on those who lack access to information and services to ensure equal access. We have particularly strong links to the Eastern European community, but we have also successfully worked with refugees, asylum seekers and BME people born in the UK. Currently, most of our work is delivered in Sunderland and the surrounding area. Our approach is to focus on both- assets of our community, as well as the issues that our community faces. While we are committed to supporting those in crisis, we strongly believe that it is our duty to prevent the crisis.

We

Connect people to opportunities
Defend people’s rights
Bring people from different cultural backgrounds together
In order to fulfil our mission, we provide the following activities:

Information, Advice, Guidance and Advocacy work (individual casework) in a wide range of diverse areas, from employability to welfare rights
Volunteering opportunities
Cultural activities
Our values are:

Justice
Equality
Involvement
Connectedness
Commitment
Commitment to partnership working:

we see partnership work as key to our past and future success. We work closely with a variety of partners, including the Sunderland Black and Minority Ethnic Network, local councils (notably, Sunderland City Council), health authorities, emergency services, community organisations and local businesses.

International Newcastle

Our city is home to a diverse range of international communities and we have worldwide civic, community, business, cultural and investment links. We are committed to promoting, valuing and celebrating internationalism in the city and generating opportunities and impact through meaningful international relationships.

International Newcastle facilitates partnership working in the city and with national and international partners to support a more coherent, collaborative approach to internationalism and achieve outcomes and impact.

We lead on Our Newcastle Our World – an international relations city plan and framework for action. We rely on strong partnership work to be able to explore and act together around priorities which will make a difference, in a way that is sustainable and has impact.

Our ambition and activity relates to:
a) Raising aspirations and widening access to opportunities for disadvantaged groups
b) Upskilling and developing the future workforce
c) Promoting Newcastle as a welcoming and outward looking city
d) Supporting Newcastle’s ambitions to become a multicultural, inclusive city

Priority activities focus on our vision of Newcastle as an international city for our children and young people (0-30) to be active and confident global citizens.

Find out more at our website or do get in touch.

Investing in Children

Investing in Children (IiC) is a children’s human rights organisation working in partnership with children and young people to exercise their rights and participate in decisions that affect them.
We support young people of all ages and living in all circumstances to help to shape local services in their communities.

Investing in Children

Investing in Children (IiC) is a children’s human rights organisation working in partnership with children and young people to exercise their rights and participate in decisions that affect them.
We support young people of all ages and living in all circumstances to help to shape local services in their communities.

Involve North East

Involve North East work to engage patients, carers and the public to ensure every North East voice is heard in the design, development and commissioning of health and social care services.

Jack Drum Arts

Jack Drum Arts is a sustainable, locally-based social enterprise providing engaging and inspiring creative opportunities for the communities of County Durham with a specific focus on South Durham. We are international in outlook whilst rooted in our local community with a team of 10 staff many of whom started their journey with us as a participant. Central to our mission is to improve the lives of those who are disadvantaged, promoting improved wellbeing, resilience, tackling loneliness and isolation using arts and cultural activities as our tool.

James' Place

We help men in suicidal crisis find hope for the future.

We offer free, life-saving treatment to suicidal men in the North East, Lonjdon and the North West. We provide a safe, friendly, therapeutic environment in which men are cared for and respected. Our mission is to help men aged 18+ who are in crisis, by providing quick access to short and focused one to one therapy which will help them to understand and recover from a suicidal crisis.

Jazz North East

Jesmond Community Leisure

Jesmond Pool is a community managed building in Newcastle upon Tyne, offering a full range of sporting and physical activities for everyone. An award winning social enterprise, operating as a charity since re-opening in 1992, we not only offer a full range of water activities, but also 2 gym’s, a multi purpose dance and activity room, massage and therapy room and a poolside sauna and steam.