Yorkshire and Humberside Organisations

Art in the Park is a community environmental arts organisation which creates opportunities for people to get involved in environmental art and volunteering. Runs open access art events in green spaces in and around the areas of Upperthorpe, Netherthorpe and Langsett.

Barnsley Beacon has been delivering support and advice to family, carers and friends of substance users for 11 years. Our work and the benefits that we provide to our community would not be possible without the help and dedication of our volunteers.

We are extremely fortunate to have a team of around 10 dedicated, professional and knowledgeable volunteers. With their help and support BB can offer to provide a range of services such as:

Bike Rescue is a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company, set up in 2006 which specialises in recycling bikes. It has a team of skilled mechanics who service and repair bikes; specialising in keeping older or classic bikes rolling along. You can take your bike in for a full service, which starts at just £36. Refurbished bikes are for sale to the public from their showroom; kids bikes start at £35, adults from £60. All refurbished bikes are sold with a 3 month warranty. Volunteering opportunities may be available.

The Burngreave Domestic Abuse Project is a community based project run by a team of trained female workers including an Urdu, Punjabi and Mirpuri speaker. Interpreters for other languages can be arranged.  

Women affected by domestic abuse will be offered practical and emotional support to explore their options, to help them recover from their experiences and to change their situation. 

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Derbyshire Dales is a charity that provides free debt counselling for everyone, regardless of faith or religion, through a series of home visits.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Doncaster is a charity that provides free debt counselling for everyone, regardless of faith or religion, through a series of home visits.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Harrogate is a charity that provides free debt counselling for everyone, regardless of faith or religion, through a series of home visits.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Leeds and Wharfedale is a charity that provides free debt counselling for everyone, regardless of faith or religion, through a series of home visits.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Leeds North is a charity that provides free debt counselling for everyone, regardless of faith or religion, through a series of home visits.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Pontefract is a charity that provides free debt counselling for everyone, regardless of faith or religion, through a series of home visits.

Offers advice to people from Sharrow, Broomhall, Nether Edge, Abbeydale and surrounding areas on  a range of issues including: benefits, immigration, employment, housing,  tax, debt, child support, and relationship breakdown.

The club offers English practice and some basic English teaching for refugees and asylum seekers and in addition encourages the many skills of the clubs members by producing newsletters, film discussions and forming links with other community groups. Volunteering opportunities are also available to provides an opportunity to get to know people from around the world and to develop understanding and empathy with refugee issues.

Crystal peaks library hosts a range of free/low cost, regular group meetings, activities and events for families including: first Tuesday talks where different speakers are invited to talk on a variety of subjects, a reading group, an amateur dramatics group as well as a bereavement drop in. These are just some of the activities taking please - please contact for more information.

We help families across the UK who are raising a disabled child or young person with additional complex needs or children and young people with a serious illness.

You can apply to the Family Fund if:

Offers advice on issues such as benefits, employment, housing,tax, debt, child support and relationship breakdown. Home visits are offered within catchment area if client unable to get to centre. Supports and represents at Social Security and Disability Appeal Tribunals. Will also help with County Court cases, including housing repossessions and evictions.

Headlands Out of School Club is situated in the grounds of Headlands Primary School in Haxby. Our aim is to provide an environment that is not only safe and secure, but is also a relaxing and fun place for your children to come to out of school hours. 

The club is open every school day. Our Breakfast Club runs from 7.30am until 8.55am. This session offers the children the opportunity to have a nutritional breakfast along with the chance to play prior to the start of the school day.

Offers advice and information on a range of issues including benefits, employment, housing rights, money, debt and local services.

Jubilee Debt Advice Centre provides free debt counselling and support to anyone who finds themselves in financial difficulty

We collect donated household items in the Keighley/Skipton area to pass on to people on very low incomes. We are particularly interested in Cookers, Washing Machines and Fridges as we have just been granted funding to start a white goods re-use workshop.People on benefit come along, choose their own furniture and household items. Our large premises enables us to accommodate extra items and work with the council to achieve their recycling targets.

We're here to remind you that just because your a lone parent dosn't mean your alone.
We are group organised and run by keighley based lone parents for lone parents, that makes the things we can offer very limited, as we grow this will change and we will begin to be able to offer more to our mums and dads, but to make our group a successful one we need the lone parents of keighley to join us at our meet ups.

Our meet ups in the keighly area are for lone parents and there children.

These meet ups include:

We offer support to men and women in Kirklees over the age of sixteen who have experienced some form of sexual or physical abuse. We provide one- to- one counselling, advocacy, an Independent Sexual Violence Advisory Scheme, support sessions, outreach and a helpline which is open to survivors, their families and partners.

The Ozanam Project is a furniture reuse and redistribution project which aims to provide good quality furniture free of charge to families and individuals in the Halifax area who need help and assistance with their basic needs. The project collects second hand furniture free of charge and stores it until it can be given a new home with a family or individual who is referred to the scheme. It is then delivered to them free of charge. The project is run by volunteers, and at the moment only collects and delivers at certain times.

Life beyond debt.... Sleepless nights...unopened letters...unpaid bills...  we all know when our finances are not working out.

This project enhances the development and education of children under school age and primarily from single parent families by facilitating community groups and the provision of stimulating play. They also provide advocacy, advice and information.

Offers a range of information, advice and support services for carers. Helpline number 0114 272 8362

We offer a FREE professional and confidential service, for women and girls (aged 13 upwards) who have experienced sexual abuse and /or rape at any time in their life, in a safe and friendly environment.

A not-for-profit furniture project, ensuring that unwanted furniture is given a new lease of life. This service ensures that people on low incomes can purchase high quality furniture at affordable prices. This has the added benefit of reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.

Vida, formely Sheffield Domestic Abuse Forum is a service for women who have experienced domestic abuse and are looking for support in their recovery. We run a womens support group with creche, which meets fortnightly to offer both practical and emotional support. We also offer our Eva Counselling and Therapy Service, which offers counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, Coaching, Dance and Movement Therapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques,and in the autumn Drama Therapy.

There are a wide range of services accessible from Westfield Children's Centre.

• Integrated Services Team
• Toy Bus
• Family Support
• Health Visiting and Midwifery
• Childcare
• Education
• Family Learning and Skills for Life
• Job Centre Plus
• Future Prospects
• Other Services

Our volunteers and staff have been working with people in local communities since 1903. We are a democratically run charity with people taking part in making decisions and planning their own local courses. We have very few buildings of our own and run courses in places that people feel are convenient and ‘safe’. We run courses in community centres, schools, village halls, workplaces as well as in some surprising places. We have run courses for farmers in auction marts and for would-be musicians in recording studios and live music venues.

York Carers Centre is an independent body that helps unpaid carers in York find the support they need.

Community Furniture Store (York) Limited is a registered charity that helps low-income individuals and families by supplying low cost furniture and domestic electrical appliances.