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Founded in 1962, CSV is the UK’s leading volunteering and training charity.

Every year, CSV involves over 150,000 volunteers in high quality opportunities that enrich lives and tackle real need. Between them, they help transform the lives of over 1million people across the UK.

CSV trains over 20,000 young people and adults each year, helping them build the skills and confidence they need to progress to further education or employment or to set up in business.

We are dedicated to building the skills and capacity of the voluntary sector and share over 45 years of experience and expertise through our professional training and consultancy services.

CSV's vision is of a society where everyone can participate to build healthy, enterprising, inclusive communities.

northlincs.tv is a none for profit social enterprise with a community interest company structure. We provide digital video production and web broadcasting to the local council, public sector companies, business, community groups, education providers and charities.

Established by Brian Altoft, who has a proven track record of producing video programmes for a wide range of clients in our area, northlincs.tv is North Lincolnshire’s visual voice.

Working with our partners in the public sector we are committed to providing a positive image of North Lincolnshire, celebrating its culture, business and communities

NHS Choices is a comprehensive information service that helps to put you in control of your healthcare.

The service is intended to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services in England when you need them.

Since the integration of the online arm of NHS Direct in October 2008, NHS Choices provides a single 'front door' for the public to all NHS online services and information through the country’s biggest health website.

We are the largest provider of post-16 education and training in North Lincolnshire, offering a huge range of full-time, part-time and work based learning courses at a range of levels. Our learners benefit from excellent facilities plus friendly and vocationally experienced staff.

We are also an associate college of the University of Lincoln, and offer a range of HNCs, HNDs, degrees and an exciting new range of foundation degrees.

In addition, since September 2008 we have been a smoke free College with smoking no longer permitted anywhere on the College campus.

John Leggott College (JLC) is an Award winning Sixth Form College located in Scunthorpe which serves North Lincolnshire and the surrounding area. Students travel to college from as far as Goole, Gainsborough and Doncaster. The college provides day time courses for 16-19 year olds in over 45 subjects in GCSEs, BTECs and A levels. There is also a comprehensive programme of courses to study part time in the evenings and on a Saturday. The college has an international reputation for excellence and has won many awards. There are over 100 international students who chose to come to the UK to study here. JLC is a QIA Beacon College and was described as ‘good with outstanding features’ by Ofsted in May 2007. The college offers young people the opportunity to study in an adult atmosphere with few rules. The ethos centres around the mutual respect for each other and is often described as a half way house between school and university or employment. With over 2000 students all of a similar age, the college is a vibrant, exciting place to study after year 11 at school.

Help for Heroes’ latest venture is funding the establishment of Army Recovery Centres (ARCs) across the UK.

ARCs will provide a launch pad to life for seriously wounded or long term sick soldiers, supporting them as they make the transition to a fulfilling future. Prior to the Army Recovery Centre, once patients left hospital or the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, most continued to convalesce at home. But not all families can provide the level of support and care that is needed to allow patients to return to duty or gain a smooth transition to a skilled and supported civilian life.

ARCs will provide wounded soldiers with an individually tailored programme, including career management and counselling, which takes into account their particular injury and skill set. Each centre will be attached to a garrison, so that wounded soldiers can stay within a structured military environment close to friends and family, and take advantage of the garrison facilities. Although it is hoped that every soldier wounded in the service of their country will be able to return to duty, there will be many who will be destined to leave the services, and it is important that they receive assistance and guidance in this.

The Pathfinder ARC, the Mark Wright GC House, opened in Edinburgh on August 17, 2009, as a partnership between Help for Heroes, which is funding the project, the service charity Erskine, which provided the building, and the army, which will provide the military staff and the programme for the twelve residents. The creation of further ARCs, delivered as quickly as possible, is now an absolute priority for H4H and the Army. Help for Heroes is raising money to open further, fully comprehensive centres accommodating 20 residents with larger staff in Colchester, Catterick, Tidworth, Aldershot and a more permanent solution in Edinburgh.

Our mission is to make a positive change to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. Our vision is a society where each and every child and young person is supported to realise their potential.

In 2008 the BBC Children in Need Appeal raised over £38 million and for every penny you gave the charity, a penny will go towards projects helping disadvantaged children in the UK. We are able to make this promise because the charity uses its investment income and Gift Aid to cover all running costs. Every year, thanks to public donations and the amazing efforts of fundraisers, schools, businesses and our corporate partners, we are able to provide support to thousands of youngsters aged 18 and under.

People need practical support at home, so we provide anything from some precious time off for a carer, to a lift to hospital. People need emotional support, so we listen, advise and share information though our cancer support specialists, website and trained professionals. People need financial help to cope with the extra costs cancer can bring, so we give benefits advice, and grants for anything from heating bills to travel costs. Together we listen, we learn, we act to help people live with cancer.

Cancer Research UK is the world's leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research.

We support research into all aspects of cancer through the work of more than 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses.

The London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded in 1884.

It changed its name to The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in 1889.

Its aim then was to protect children from cruelty, support vulnerable families, campaign for changes to the law and raise awareness about abuse.

Our inspiration and vision

Today, the NSPCC is inspired by a belief that we can make a difference for all children – by standing up for their rights, by listening to them, by helping them when they need us and by making them safe.

Our vision is ending cruelty to children in the UK. We believe cruelty is preventable and that through having an inspirational vision we will achieve much greater success for children.

We provide children and young people and professionals those all important opportunities to make positive and lasting changes to their lives and outlook, in particular, those so deeply affected by bullying that they can barely face going to school that next morning. We work tirelessly to affect that attitudinal change in those that bully, working with them on taking responsibility and a sense of ownership over their actions, building those foundations for change and improvement in chances and opportunities.

We have recruited talented and dedicated people along the way and have been evolving the programmes we are able to offer, ranging from music as a tool to beat bullying, community cohesion and interfaith bullying, to sport and migrating mentoring online, in response to need and in close consultation with our stakeholders.

Beatbullying ensures that the portfolio of programmes on offer, assist whole communities and work seamlessly across local authorities by embedding and sustaining the work, building strong local, regional and national partnerships along the way.

Its mission is to make volunteering opportunities so diverse, compelling and easy to get involved with that giving up your time to help others becomes a natural lifestyle choice for 16-25 year olds in England.

Since its launch in May 2006, v has worked with over 500 charities and community organisations to create over 900,000 youth volunteering opportunities. Of these, 467,000 are short term or taster opportunities, 421,000 are part time, and 20,000 are full time. Over 400,000 of these have already been taken up, with the rest being offered to young people up to March 2011.

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