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Arrival Education
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
AE has designed and built a ground breaking 4 year talent development/social change programme called Success for Life which develops young people from challenging backgrounds in the real skills knowledge personal attributes and ways of thinking needed to be highly successful in work and in life. Through the programme students develop the qualities and abilities that will enable them to compete with those who have been to the top fee paying schools. S4L is delivered in partnership with some of the UK s leading businesses who see the value in delivering combined CSR/L&D that develops their own people in the skills and attributes needed to be exceptional leaders.
| Education |
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B4Box Ltd
B4Box is building for the community through building up communities assets. We know that for regeneration of a local community to be successful it is about more than the buildings alone.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Beyond Youth
Beyond Youth is a Community Interest Company originally set up to give support to young offenders to enable them to lead positive fulfilling lives. We make available a higher standard of therapeutic intervention through the delivery of our Chance 2 Change programme. Our programme has been so successful producing non re offending results of around 75% three times that of the national average that Beyond Youth are now pleased to be able to offer our services to a wider market of people in need. Our programmes are now available to adult offenders in the community and in custody.
| Administrative & support services |
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Blue Sky Development & Regeneration
Blue Sky's mission is to reduce re offending and challenge negative perceptions about people with a criminal record. To achieve this we win commercial work and offer the resulting jobs solely to ex offenders along with training and housing support.
| Human health & social work |
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CyberMentors
Canada
Cybermentor is an online mentoring program aimed at girls 11 18 to influence them at a formative stage in their development. The program matches girls with women who are studying science and engineering or with professional women scientists and engineers
| Education |
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Franchising Works
FranchisingWorks is a social enterprise that tackles unemployment by helping the workless create new businesses and jobs through franchising. SEA change is a new programme that extends FranchisingWorks to young people through a dedicated outreach and support programme. It addresses three groups of stakeholders.
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Insane Logic
MyChoicePad was created by Insane Logic. Chief Juggler, Zoe Peden was a former senior manager at The Makaton Charity and she formed a partnership with software developer, Andrew Jackman. Together they came up with the idea for MyChoicePad.
| Other |
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Moodscope
We were the first of our kind to offer the opportunity for companies to engage with students and teachers. - a big deal – this helped us bag awards.
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MyKindaCrowd
MyKindaCrowd was founded in 2011 and quickly became known as a ground breaking social enterprise.
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Patients Know Best
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Patients Know Best (PKB) created the world s first patient controlled medical records system. It is used by clinicians at Great Ormond Street Hospital UCL Hospital St Mark s Hospital Torbay Hospital and other institutions with patients across the UK. It is also powering medical research funded by pharmaceutical companies like Novartis. By using the software the NHS lowers costs raises quality and puts patients in control of their health.
| Human health & social work |
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Rackety's, Ltd
Rackety’s is a branded range of high street quality clothing designed for disabled children and adults. The clothing is all designed to help with specific problems but blend in with the customers regular clothing.
| Other |
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REDS10 Training
Whatever our role on a project, whether we’re Consultants, Installers, Removers or Site Managers, we’re committed to providing an outstanding and professional service.
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Ripplez CIC
Ripplez CIC is an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise commissioned by the NHS to deliver Family Nurse Partnership (FNP). FNP is an evidence-based programme for vulnerable first time mothers. It offers intensive and structured home visiting, delivered by specially trained nurses, from early pregnancy until the child is two years old.
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Spacehive Ltd
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Spacehive is the world's first funding platform for civic projects. They make it easy for lots of people companies and councils to fund things that make places better like new playgrounds or spruced up parks. For people with great project ideas Spacehive allows to build support direct from your community. For everyone else it's an effortless way to transform where you live just find a project love and pledge a contribution. If enough others do too it gets built!
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Sports Traider
ST sell a mixture of donated second-hand and new sportswear and equipment at discount prices. The money raised allows us to provide the local community with a wealth of outcomes;
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Squease
Squease is an award-winning therapeutic garment that helps individuals with autism better deal with anxiety. As opposed to competitors, Squease is useable for long periods of time, mobile, fashionable and educational in teaching wearers to self-manage anxiety. Using patent pending inflatable technology, Squease allows the wearer to self administrate a sensation of Deep Pressure, which is scientifically shown to help individuals with sensory integration issues manage anxiety.
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The SWEET Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
The sweet project has two distinct and interrelated areas of activities. We are a learning and training organisation for student social workers and a family support and child protection organisation. Our services emerged out of matching the growing need for high quality student work placements and supervision with an increasing shortage of direct support to families in need which fall out of the priority category for social care departments.
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Under the Stars, Ltd
United States of America
Under The Stars is a not for profit arts organisation. They run proper club nights for people with learning disabilities and their friends so they can have a good time in a safe environment. They run weekly music workshops where people can write their own songs compose music and play all of the instruments themselves.They also run drama workshops and our groups devise original shows based on their own ideas.
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