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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£19.9M
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Spending
£19.7M
Public benefits
The Cedar Foundation (Cedar) achieves its purposes and provides direct benefit through the development and provision of a range of services to disabled adults and children throughout Northern Ireland. Services are delivered across two Directorates - Employment and Community Inclusion (ECI) and Living Options (LO), both supported by Corporate
Services Directorate. Cedar’s Employment programmes include specialised services for adults with physical disability, acquired brain injury and autism supporting individuals who are keen to build employability skills and experience to be work-ready, then to move into paid work, education, training or volunteering on leaving. Support is also provided for those who are work ready to get jobs or for those in work who are in danger of losing their post as a result of the impact of disability. The services directly support employers, colleges, and other providers to ensure effective integration of adults with disabilities in these environments. The benefits arising from these services include service users becoming more economically active through engagement with the labour market, increased social inclusion and enhanced health and wellbeing. Furthermore, increased access for people with disabilities to training and work improves diversity and inclusion in a range of environments which provide benefits to the wider community. Cedar’s Community Inclusion services improve outcomes for children, young people and adults with disability, autism and brain injury across Northern Ireland through 5 distinct services: Short Breaks provides one to one support to enable children to develop friendships and take part in activities at home and in the community; Youth Matters service offers group based social activities and personal development programmes building confidence and self-esteem; Transitions Service fully involves young people and their families to make decisions about their life before leaving school and supports them to move on to further education, work and community inclusion; Inclusion Matters service supports adults with disabilities to build new social networks within their local communities and encourages peer support and user-led networking to participate in social, sport and leisure opportunities; Right 4U�� service builds the capacity of children, young people and adults with autism to engage in community activities. All of the Community Inclusion services build capacity of individuals and enhance their engagement with their local community benefiting the individuals who access the service, their families, and carers. Cedar’s Living Options meet the individual needs of people with brain injury, physical disability, sensory impairment or learning disabilities through a range of accommodation and home-based supports. The Supported Living services provide on-site support in independent apartments or bungalows and include Positive Behavioural Support services for adults with complex needs. Cedar’s residential homes provide 24-hour care to adults with learning disabilities and all accommodation-based services are regulated. Furthermore, our Floating/Housing Support services support individuals living in their own home to maintain their tenancies through support with budget planning, home safety, health and wellbeing and community engagement. These services provide benefit through enhanced independence and improved quality of life. Benefits of all services are measured through review of individual care/support plans, soft outcome measurement tools (e.g. Rickter, Outcomes Star) and through feedback from the User Forum, service user satisfaction surveys, internal and external audit and third party regulators (e.g. RQIA, ETI). Cedar is committed to quality improvement and is ISO 9001:2015 accredited, an Investors in People Platinum organisation and holds Investing in Volunteers accreditation.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Cedar supports individuals and families living with disability, autism and brain injury to live the lives they choose through a range of services which include employment, community inclusion, accommodation and housing support. We support over 2500 children and adults annually operating from 20 locations throughout Northern Ireland. All our
services are person-centred and built around the needs of service users to promote opportunity, choice and inclusion at all stages. We invest in training to build highly skilled staff teams to deliver quality and award-winning services to ensure our service users are supported to achieve the outcomes that matter to them.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Physical disabilities
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Disability
- Education/training
- Volunteer development
