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Employment, housing, education, complaints, community asset acquisition, welfare rights, criminal justice reports, human rights, access to healthcare and community care.

Arterne CIC is a not for profit community interest company supporting individuals, families, agencies, businesses and communities to thrive. The support we offer is delivered through projects and training that promotes and supports mental health. We focus on reducing anxieties; promote mental health and help to minimise harm people cause to themselves; minimise suicidal ideation and behaviours; provide support for building positive relationships; tackle substance use where is has become problematic or where support for maintaining changes is required; care leaver support; support for people who have accessed the criminal justice system and require support to integrate in the community; support for homelessness issues; help to reduce loneliness and social isolation; help with poverty or financial worries; we want people to thrive and feel like they are achieving positive things; across all age ranges.

BF Adventure, established in 1989, has developed a well-equipped and fully accessible 60-acre activity centre (“Goodygrane”) with four flooded granite quarries set in woods and heathland on the rural outskirts of Penryn. From this central location the charity, also constituted as a limited company, delivers programmes to challenge and inspire around 4,000 people throughout Cornwall each year.

Its experienced and highly motivated team of instructors and volunteers use these exciting outdoor resources to support children and adults who experience multiple disadvantage including difficulties which stem from physical, mental, behavioural and/or learning difficulties. Through a vast range of activities ranging from archery, abseiling and bushcraft to watersports and the zipwire, the team supports and monitors participants in building confidence and self-esteem, developing life skills - with accreditations as appropriate – to promote engagement and positive change.

EP: IC is an independent research, evaluation and consultancy collective in social and
criminal justice. Our team is formed from those with lived and learnt experience of prisons.

Tempo works to enable more people to volunteer, because giving your time and feeling valued improves health, happiness and future prospects.

Our vision is for strong, connected communities where everyone’s time is valued. We want to work with more communities across the UK – enabling more people to contribute to their local community, and be recognised for the time that they give.

To achieve this, we use Time Credits to engage new people in communities and in shaping local services, improving health and wellbeing for all.

Time Credits are a time-based currency that incentivises people to volunteer. People earn Time Credits when they give their time and spend them on a wide range of activities they choose.

The benefits of Time Credits include:
• More people volunteering
• Improved health and wellbeing
• A stronger voluntary sector
• Better designed services
• People feel more connected
• People develop new skills and confidence

Aims
The aims of the Hub were very similar to those of the VCP, namely:
•To provide a safe environment with a person centred, single point of focus for Armed Forces personnel, Service Leavers, Veterans and their families, all providing, timely, on-going, comprehensive and appropriate support/signposting through diverse and trusted providers
•Delivering an innovative wrap around service to veterans, identifying the various individual needs to find help to find work or training: – physical disability, poor mental health, problematic substance or alcohol abuse, homelessness, debt, ex offender and relationship breakdown.
•The model is both enabling and supportive, perceiving the wounded, injured and sick part of the veteran and service leaver’s community as an asset.

The Hub offers
Rapid access to:
•Bespoke employment and training information and advice
•Bespoke personalised support, mentoring and coaching
•Access to RBL Case Officer Service
•Access to RBL advice and information surgeries
•Access to RBL specialist services – Outreach officer service, War pensions & Armed Forces Compensation scheme (AFCS) advisor service – support with appeals.
•Access to SSAFA & RBL Home visiting casework service, for currently serving, those who have served their families and dependant
•Links and positive relationships with many other organisations, including NHS services, accommodation providers and employment courses
•Similarly, a close working relationship has grown with Help for Heroes (H4H). Seen as a partner organisation, the Hub is utilised as an outreach office to engage wounded, injured and sick (WIS) veterans, linking with the Recovery Centre, Endeavour House, HMS Drake, Plymouth and their Band of Brothers/Sisters projects