Our trainees face multiple disadvantages such as homelessness, addictions, poor mental and physical health, long-term unemployment, offending history, fleeing domestic violence, and leaving local authority care. Many of them experience multiple of these needs which interact in complex ways.
Who We Support
Open to everyone
Handcrafted is a community open to everyone. We work with some of the most marginalised people in society, regardless of their backgrounds.
Priority Groups
Based on our experience of working in the North-East for the past 12 years, we have 4 key priority groups for whom we have developed specialist provision:
- Young asylum-seekers and refugees (16-25 year olds)
- Young care leavers with complex needs
- Women who have experience of domestic abuse
- Prison leavers
