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There’s Always Hope

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A Hope + A Future

Handcrafted’s mission is to connect with excluded people in society, and offer support, housing, opportunities and training that can empower them to turn their own lives around.

Making a Difference That Counts

  • 0 People connected with each day
  • 0 Daily session attendance
  • 0 People housed
  • 0 Daily free meals served
  • 0 Feel part of a community
  • 0 Experienced improved mental health

Awards and Recognitions

  • NOCN
    Approved Centre for delivering National Open College Network (NOCN) accredited qualifications
  • Ofsted
    Registered with Ofsted as a Supported Accommodation provider for 16‑18 year olds
  • Durham Learn
    Winner of the 2022 Durham Learn award for the Project of the Year for our Carpentry course
  • Homeless Link 2024
    Shortlisted for the 2024 Homeless Link Award for Measuring Impact
  • Pilotlight
    Selected to work with Pilotlight as a partner charity to consolidate growth and prepare for further expansion
  • Homeless Link 2020
    Winner of the 2020 Homeless Link Excellence Award for Social Enterprise
  • Nepacs
    Winner of the 2024 NEPACS Ruth Cranfield Award for work with Durham Probation to reduce reoffending
  • Weston
    Winner of the 2024 Garfield Weston Charity Awards
  • Matrix
    Matrix is a Dfe quality standard for Information, Advice and Guidance
  • NOCN
    Approved Centre for delivering National Open College Network (NOCN) accredited qualifications
  • Ofsted
    Registered with Ofsted as a Supported Accommodation provider for 16‑18 year olds
  • Durham Learn
    Winner of the 2022 Durham Learn award for the Project of the Year for our Carpentry course
  • Homeless Link 2024
    Shortlisted for the 2024 Homeless Link Award for Measuring Impact
  • Pilotlight
    Selected to work with Pilotlight as a partner charity to consolidate growth and prepare for further expansion
  • Homeless Link 2020
    Winner of the 2020 Homeless Link Excellence Award for Social Enterprise
  • Nepacs
    Winner of the 2024 NEPACS Ruth Cranfield Award for work with Durham Probation to reduce reoffending
  • Weston
    Winner of the 2024 Garfield Weston Charity Awards
  • Matrix
    Matrix is a Dfe quality standard for Information, Advice and Guidance
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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