Our Vision
People and communities feel confident, connected and able to take action in building healthier, more creative and vibrant places.
Our Mission
To enable communities to take positive action, build confidence, skills, enterprising mindsets, and create a lasting legacy of purposeful change.
Our Values are built upon three pillars of change:
- Improving Lifestyles
Inspiring local people to improve the areas they live in. - Raising Aspirations
Building knowledge by sharing expertise and cascading skills. - Making a Difference
Creating legacies of action through lasting impact on people’s hearts, minds and places.
How do we do this?
We are encouraging positive change by delivering the following objectives:
- Improve health and wellbeing by delivering accessible activities that support healthier lifestyles, emotional wellbeing, confidence and social connection.
- Create safe and inclusive spaces where children, young people, families and adults feel welcomed, listened to, valued and supported.
- Raise aspirations and build confidence by helping people develop skills, try new activities, recognise their strengths and take positive steps forward.
- Encourage creativity, practical learning and social action through activities that help people express themselves, solve problems and contribute to their community.
- Reduce isolation and improve community connection by bringing people together through regular groups, projects, volunteering and partnership activity.
- Amplify community voices, choices and opportunities so local people can shape activities, influence change and become active contributors to healthier, more resilient communities.
We do this through our unique and innovative projects:
1. Children and Young People:
We hold Youth Groups every week in Rossington, Doncaster and Mosborough, Sheffield.
We deliver activities during school holidays.
We also provide a fortnightly Young Carers session in Doncaster.
Our youth group sessions to engage and encourage young people aged from 11 to 18 to develop valuable life skills, explore recycling and upcycling, arts and crafts, board games and have safe, comfortable meeting spaces.
2. Health and Wellbeing Programmes:
Good health is vital for a good quality of life. Healthy communities require healthy families. Our health and wellbeing programmes are designed to work within the communities where health issues are of major concern. Our programmes focus on improving health and wellbeing by providing support to address obesity, diabetes, and improving heart health through behaviour change and skills development.
3. Community Consultation and Engagement:
We love to find out more about the communities we work in. Our game AMPLIFY has been developed to help local people talk about their area and find out what needs to improve and work works for them.
Our Growtopia Environmental game helps to encourage conversations about the environment and simple changes that can help make lasting improvements. This engaging and ‘escape game’ style includes literacy, numeracy, STEM skills alongside learning about growing food and sustainable food sources.
3. Training:
Our community skills sessions are aimed at improving health and wellness by developing skills for a healthier and happier life. This includes business skills, family finance, environmental arts and crafts, recycling and up-cycling, digital skills, community gardens and food forests.
Look out for us on social media! @chimeincic
Examples of this include:
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Weekly youth groups led by young people.
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Fun and engaging eco craft, music and sports holiday activity sessions for children and young people.
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Supporting community assets to be more sustainable by inspiring enterprising mindsets, developing skills and increasing volunteering.
Amplifying Voices, Choices and Opportunities by:
Improving Lifestyles
Raising Aspirations
Making a Difference
Services
Supporting local Voluntary and Community Groups to develop and grow.
Our team have a range of skills and experience to offer the community, this includes:
Supporting the development of organisation sustainability
Working in partnership to make use of community venues and joint collaborative projects.
Providing services in communities of need in South Yorkshire and the wider areas.
Sustainable Communities
We are doing are best to work in the communities that traditionally are not great at recycling.
Our Eco Arts and Crafts sessions are not only fun but they also help spread the message about being responsible with your waste.
Whether you love building an Eco Robot out of recycled materials, or create bug houses and bird feeders, these sessions help everyone from the age of 6 to 90 (and beyond) to create, learn and enjoy.
Keep updated on our social media to see when the next sessions are.
Career Quest
The future workforce requirements are changing as a result of the role of technology in business. Some future job roles are not invented yet, with the next 5 years bringing a wave of significant change in the way business operates. Career Quest aims to prepare our young people to understand the opportunities, develop the skills and be ready for their future roles in an ever-changing world.
Career Quest is the next generation of exciting and rewarding career guidance for young people from age 12 to 24. This new concept gives access to career information, advice and guidance, providing unique engaging methods of planning future careers, meeting employers and gaining a good understanding of what opportunities are on offer.
Career Quest provides access to career information through inspirational and engaging techniques such as AI, gamification, VR, video and live links, to enable access to training, role models, live job opportunities and advice from real employers. Each participant has access to a mentor for one to one support, guiding them through an exciting route to employment.
Bespoke Projects
Our team have a unique set of skills and experiences that span from a combination of 55 years working with communities, including charities, community businesses, housing associations, local authorities, welfare to work organisations, social enterprises and micro businesses.
We can support your organisation to develop bespoke projects by setting up systems and processes to tender for contracts, apply for funding and develop fundraising strategies.
Our bespoke projects are developed in hand with communities by identifying local needs and addressing with unique solutions, exploring what works and delivering lasting impact.
Our network of contacts are vast and varied! We encourage collaboration and can make introductions to ensure your project has the best support it needs to make it a success.
