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Make a Referral

We regularly take referrals from healthcare services, local authority services, community groups, other charities and individuals for our support, training and housing.

Before filling in the form, please get in touch with us to discuss your referral with one of our hubs as our activities and housing have limited capacity.

Chester-le-Street: clshub@handcrafted.org.uk
Durham: durhamhub@handcrafted.org.uk | 0191 378 1562
Gateshead: gatesheadhub@handcrafted.org.uk | 0191 676 0499
Sunderland: sunderlandhub@handcrafted.org.uk | 07884 113889
Engage: engagehub@handcrafted.org.uk

Housing Referrals - Please be aware that our housing availability is extremely limited - there is an active waiting list for our housing, and we allocate based on need.

To ensure our list of referral stays current, we will keep your housing referral active for 56 days. If we haven’t identified a suitable space and contacted you within that period the referral will be closed.

If you would like to add someone to our waiting list, please use our Housing Referrals Form.

Activities Referrals - If you would like to make a referral for the activity sessions taking place each day in our hubs, please use our Activities Referral Form.

Training Course Referrals - If you would like to make a referral for any of our accredited training course pathways, please use our Training Course Referral Form.

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Testimonials

There are countless challenges and barriers between our Fairchance service users and a healthy, productive and satisfying life.

We often use the term ‘chaotic lifestyle’ to describe the multitude of issues they face, and we contrast this lifestyle with an ideal that is secure, positive, stable and fulfilling. Often people looking in on the lifestyles of our service users find them intimidating, disorientating and full of risk – it should be no surprise that the same is true the other way around. For our service users who are looking into employment, education and stable accommodation, what they often see is a very unfamiliar culture and environment that they are unable to navigate.

Handcrafted helps to bridge this gap. It’s a middle ground between work and leisure where our service users are building confidence, self-esteem, working relationships, responsibilities, a sense of achievement. As a natural consequence of this and armed with the skills necessary to make this transition our service users are developing goals and ambitions and making plans for the futures that they are beginning to see as a reality for themselves.

Joe K, Fair Chance Project, Oasis Aquila Housing