This is the mission statement

Search Newcastle work to promote the health, wealth and happiness of older people living in Newcastle.

We want a future where a child’s ambitions are never limited by their circumstances. We work to motivate, guide and empower children and young people living in the most deprived areas, to re-think their potential. By working long term within a community, we positively invest in the talents and ambitions of the children and young people living there. We do this by training young people form the local area to provide tailored support to the children that need a little extra help. Our Hubs have and will always be spaces where children and young people have; a sense of true belonging, safe spaces to make mistakes and grow from them, where they can challenge and motivate each other to achieve their full potential.

Tyneside Outdoors (TO) aims to help people living in disadvantaged areas of Tyneside to access the outdoors and to use it for their learning, development, health and enjoyment. TO currently provides outdoor youth work activities in Newcastle upon Tyne in Walker Park in the east of the city and with our West End Outdoors Youth Group in Scotswood and Benwell. We're also delivering youth work in Temple Memorial Park, South Shields, where we're researching and rediscovering a 1980's BMX Dirt Track.

Family Help’s Charitable Objects To provide refuge accommodation and a specialist holistic package of support for women and women with children from anywhere in the country. A confidential helpline is available for any person affected directly or indirectly by domestic abuse. Advocacy, options, information, signposting is available along with move on support to Darlington clients who have moved out of the refuge and into new tenancies.

We support people with learning disabilities to run their community café, Café JJ. They are known as Team JJ and each team member has been supported to gain catering and waiting on skills.

Daisy Chain provide a haven for families affected by autism, offering care and support services along with raising awareness in the local and wider area.

At my AFK (formerly Action For Kids) we recognise and acknowledge individual potential and provide a range of programmes to address the hurdles that disabled children and young people face. Our goal is to help improve mobility and develop children and young people’s skills and prospects to enable them to achieve a better quality of life and health, access new opportunities, and achieve success. Our organisation works with 100s of disabled children and young people each year to help enable them to overcome many of the social, physical, and financial barriers to their independence.

We support and connect people in the North East and Cumbria at every step of their HIV journey. Finding out that you, or a loved one, are living with HIV can be a huge shock. Whether it’s providing help to come to terms with the diagnosis, peer mentoring, rebuilding confidence or becoming part of a supportive community, Blue Sky Trust provides a confidential and safe place to “find strength and go on with happiness”.

Here at Tynemouth Village Day Centre, we offer a number of services for you including, Door to door transport on a purpose built, escorted coach. Tea and coffee on arrival and the opportunity to catch up with friends and look at the days newspaper. Home cooked lunch fully prepared on the premises with the ability to accommodate special dietary needs. Sweet followed by a choice of beverage. Afternoon entertainment activities including daily trips out on the coach. A choice of beverage served with home baked cakes or scones for afternoon tea. Door to door transport home in the evening. Individual Payment schemes. Please contact us for further information *Spaces Available. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

HoverAid is a small, Christian, humanitarian charity, based in the UK & Netherlands working in Madagascar to reach the unreachable. We use hovercraft to provide impoverished people, living in remote communities, with Water pumps And wells, Sanitation, Hygiene education (WASH projects) and aid relief. We also enable other organisations to expand their reach by using hovercraft to reach the unreachable; isolated communities who are simply too difficult, or too expensive to reach. We bring aid to remote communities, build trust with the people we meet there, understand their needs and tell others about the problems they face.

It is our mission to give families affected by cancer a much-needed break from long hospital stays, traumatic medical procedures and cancer related treatments so that they may spend quality time together recuperating and enjoying life as a ‘normal’ family, strengthening relationships and creating lasting happy memories. As cancer affects families financially as well as physically and emotionally, Saras Hope Foundation offers a holiday break free from financial burden or stress.

Action for Asperger’s (AfA) is a UK-wide, award winning registered charity providing autism-specialist counselling for those living with, and those living alongside, Asperger’s syndrome and autism whose lives have become adversely affected by their experience.

We want to ensure that all children in the North East who have been diagnosed with autism, have access to the support and care that they and their families need. We want to be there for the children, parents and family members who feel lost and alone at the time of diagnosis and provide positive early intervention, support and care to those families.

Voluntary Organisations’ Network North East's (VONNE) mission is to support the development and sustainability of a strong, effective and well governed VCSE and promote engagement, involvement and collaboration with the sector as a valued partner. VONNE's strategic aims 1. To be the expert source of knowledge and intelligence on the sector in the North East. 2. To be a source of information to the sector on issues and opportunities that impact on it. 3. To raise the North East sector profile and be a leading voice for it. 4. To support external stakeholders to effectively engage and collaborate with the sector. 5. To support the sector to be effective, ambitious and enterprising.

For all children and young people to have a safe accessible place to play, have fun and make friends.

To be recognised as an invaluable support medium for the educational development of the youth of Dominica, with particular emphasis on their secondary education.

We deal with people with all sorts of addictions and obsessions. Many people have depression associated with these states of mind. Our aim is to change that. Family members are usually drawn into these areas of sickness and their mental health becomes affected without their knowing it, so they are often in denial.

Africa Educational Trust is an internationally recognised expert in the field of education. We bring education solutions to the most severely disadvantaged in fragile, conflicted and post-conflict regions of Africa. We believe that providing education, giving people hope and the means to take charge of their lives brings understanding and change. We have seen that by challenging the local norms which may be detrimental to sections of society, particularly where women and girls are concerned, a new level of peace and stability can be built by the communities.

Gateway into the Community's aim is to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities by supporting their access to social, leisure and learning opportunities. The organisation has grown and developed as a consequence of the expressed needs and aspirations of our members.

A Way Out’s is an organisation of excellence, tackling and preventing exploitation of vulnerability of women and young people. We are an outreach and prevention charity which aims to engage, empower and equip vulnerable and excluded women, families and young people to live lives free from harm, abuse and exploitation and to reduce life limiting choices and behaviour. Our service users include women and young people with substance misuse problems, involved with sex work, homeless or living on the streets, often engaged in offending or victims of abuse. A Way Out is based in Stockton on Tees at a support centre called The Gate. This centre provides the base for many of our projects, offering a safe and secure place for women to come and receive support and get involved in a whole range of activities.

Our charity is committed to helping improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable children and adults in our region. Our work is highly specialised and includes working with people with profound disabilities, children in care, older people and those in need in our local communities.

North Ormesby 2001 was founded in January 1998 by the then Vicar of North Ormesby, Tim Robinson. The organisation was intended to be a regeneration partnership participating in the bid for funding in SRB 4. It was registered as a Company at Companies House (No. 03648835) and the inaugural A.G.M. was held at the North Ormesby Community Centre on 4th November 1998. In 2001 we changed its name to North Ormesby Neighbourhood Development Trust Limited.

Hetton New Dawn Group was established in January 2008 to support disadvantaged people in our community. One of the most financially deprived areas in Sunderland, the villages of Hetton, Easington Lane, Moorsley and Eppleton have higher than average unemployment, where poverty, disability and other issues, have led to high levels of ill health and social isolation, affecting many areas and sectors of our community.

The North East Autism Society is the largest specialist provider of whole life support and services for people who are neurologically diverse, namely those with autism, learning difficulties, disabilities and other hidden impairments in the North East. Our charitable objectives are to promote the welfare, development and advancement of our people.

4.1 Our Vision • A thriving North East where people from all backgrounds can live and work together in harmony to realise their potential free from discrimination. 4.2 Our Mission • To enable and empower individuals to transform their lives and to contribute to the prosperity of the North East through stronger communities and an effective and inclusive workforce.

Roseberry Community Consortium is a registered charity assisting disadvantaged groups of young people across the Tees Valley region. Our beneficiaries are young people in economically challenging situations, those affected by dyspraxia/dyslexia, those who have low patterns of academic achievements and young people living in care.

To offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. With over 20,000 volunteers based in 201 branches across 5 nations, we’re actively involved in a community near you. We reach out and work with schools, colleges and universities, workplaces, health and welfare services, homeless shelters, prisons and other charities. We also promote awareness of our service at local social venues, community events and music festivals.

Sir Bobby launched his Foundation in 2008 after a request for help from his oncologist Professor Ruth Plummer. Professor Plummer was treating Sir Bobby as he faced cancer for the fifth – and what he knew would be the final time. She needed to raise £500,000 to equip a new cancer drug trials centre at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care in Newcastle upon Tyne and asked him if he knew anyone who might like to donate. Sir Bobby responded by launching a charity to get the money she needed. He described it as “like being at the helm of a team again.” What he called his last and greatest team. In February 2009, Sir Bobby officially opened the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre.

The Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation is a philanthropic and charitable organisation that was established in March 2011 in Middlesbrough, England as a patriotic and activist group which aims to raise money from businesses and affluent individuals to make Teesside a better place in which to live, work and do business. Andy Preston set up the foundation with the help of Tanya Garland and since launch Preston has recruited the financial backing of more than 40 businesses and individuals. Businesses involved as patrons of the Foundation include Middlesbrough Football Club, Steve Gibson's Bulkhaul, Cleveland Cable Company, Barclays Middlesbrough and AV Dawson.