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Extern Supporting Communities

  • Removed

  • This charity was removed from the register on 29 Jan 2021
  • Charity no. 107469
  • Company no. 637561
  • Date registered. 25/03/2020

Public benefits

Direct benefits of purpose 4.1 are the improvements in physical and mental health of individuals affected by drug and alcohol misuse, and improvements in family stability and cohesion for beneficiaries. Purpose 4.2 leverages these benefits to facilitate service users’ participation in development programmes intended to help them to contribute to

society by engaging in education, employment or volunteering, or through an improved capacity to care for those close to them. The direct benefits of 4.3 include an increase in the availability of psycho-social and medical interventions that increases the number of service users who ESC can help. The benefit flowing from purpose 4.4 is the improved effectiveness of interventions on ESC’s service users, their designs being informed by constantly evolving best practice. The direct benefits of 4.5 are the long term, sustainable, positive changes in behaviours in ESC’s service users which reduce harm to themselves and others, and promote a greater sense of self-worth and agency, improving their own quality of life and that of those around them. The direct benefits which flow from purpose 4.6 include the improved capacity of individuals to contribute to society through engagement with education, training or employment and family life. 4.7’s benefits include improved social inclusion of ESC’s service users through instilling in society an appreciation of the challenges those service users face. Direct benefits arising from purpose 4.8 include the awareness-raising among those potentially vulnerable to alcohol and substance misuse, and who are consequently steered away from behaviours that are harmful to themselves or others. The direct benefits which flow from purpose 4.9 include improved prospects, sense of agency and happiness for ESC’s service users once their interventions have equipped them to avail of further training, care or recreation. 4.1’s benefits are shown in data captured in returns to funders’. Case studies on service-users’ benefits are made public through reports. 4.2’s are shown through longitudinal data on personal progress made by service users captured on the organisation’s social impact databases. 4.3’s are evidenced by the number of graduates reported as completing ESC’s training courses. 4.4’s are observable in the adoption of the latest peer-reviewed content and techniques in ESC’s training provision. 4.5 and 4.6’s benefits are reported in publicly available case studies and personal testimonies plus data aggregated from ESC’s social impact databases. 4.7 and 4.8’s are demonstrated through the capture of the nature and number of attendees at joint training, awareness-raising and recreational events, reported periodically. 4.9’s are shown through personal testimony and case studies, and the capture of quantitative data on the number of referrals who move on from ESC’s interventions. No harm arises from any of Extern Supporting Communities. Direct beneficiaries are service users from any part of the world who present directly or are referred to the organisation because they are affected by alcohol or substance misuse, trauma or other mental health issues, suicide or self harm. They gain from re-engagement with education, or through volunteering and employment that would not be possible without the support the charity provides. ESC’s social work trainees and the public benefit from an increase in sector-wide capacity and effectiveness of psycho-social interventions afforded by its social work research and training. Participants vulnerable to alcohol or substance misuse, suicide, or trauma in the family home benefit from awareness-raising programmes. Wider public benefit is realised by a reduction in crime and anti-social behaviour that might otherwise occur without the organisation’s interventions, and by the increase in employability or re-engagement with education afforded to vulnerable members of society. No individuals, nor any organisations, gain any private benefit through the charity’s realisation of its objects.

What your organisation does

Extern Supporting Communities provides a range of support services to individuals and groups. These are focused on people affected by one or more issues that include drug use, alcohol use, low self esteem, poor mental health, bullying, suicide and involvement in the criminal justice system. The services include intensive one-to-one social work and

psychotherapeutic interventions for people in crisis. It also provides interventions delivered on a group basis including but not limited to anxiety management and art therapy. In addition, it conducts awareness-raising and advice campaigns and workshops intended to strengthen community development approaches to reducing alcohol and substance misuse. Working with voluntary, policing, education and health sector organisations, it delivers counselling and complementary therapy courses targeting mental and physical health issues, and lifestyle issues. It provides a crisis response services to people affected by their own or others’ suicidal ideation, suicide and parasuicide.”

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives

Who the charity helps

  • Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
  • Asylum seekers/refugees
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • Homelessness
  • Mental health
  • Travellers

How the charity works

  • Accommodation/housing
  • Criminal justice
  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Relief of poverty

Charitable purposes

4.1 The relief of poverty, sickness and distress amongst (due to word limit – see Governing Document for details on sub bullets 4.1.1 to 4.1.8) 4.2 The promotion of the health of those persons referred to in article 4.1 above through the provision of medical or other interventions or any other such treatments as may be deemed appropriate in the circumstances. 4.3 The training of any person in the care or treatment of those persons referred to in article 4.1 above. 4.4 The advancement of education in and the research into any form of addiction, substance misuse, compulsive disorders and related mental illness, including their natures and causes and physical psychological and social consequences and methods of treatment and dissemination of all useful results of such research. 4.5 The provision of holistic, integrated treatment, care plans and support for those person referred to at article 4.1 above to include addressing associated or underlying issues. 4.6 The prevention of any form of addiction, substance misuse, compulsive disorders and related mental illness and to the provision of after care for those recovering, or who have recovered therefrom 4.7 The provision of information, advice brief intervention, education, experiential learning, training, recreational activities to individuals of all ages and the community at large 4.8 The advancement of education and training in and research into the danger arising from the habitual or other use of drugs together with delivery of events, publication of literature and the results of any such research relating to dependence upon or addiction to alcohol, drugs or other substances and interrelated issues 4.9 The provision of referral pathways to appropriate agencies ,aftercare, recreation and training

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