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Welcome to Integrating

Thank you for visiting our website. We are a local North East based charity, established in 2000, offering fun and safe services to children and young adults with a range of disabilities and learning difficulties aged between 5 to 25 years. Currently, we are seeking funding to expand our work with adults up to the age of 30 years. The children and adults using our service are our members, who live in or are able to access the districts of Durham City and Chester-le-Street. Annually, we work with around 90 children and adults, delivering over 10,000 activity hours during both term time and school holidays.

We organize weekly activities in the local community for our members to have fun in a safe and supported way so they can socialize, make friends, build positive relationships and learn or develop various skills, while providing respite to parents and carers from their caring responsibilities. At Integrating, we truly value and respect every person regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation so that everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to thrive.

To find out more, please click here.

Can we help?

No question is too small.

If you are wanting more information on the service we provide, whether you are a funder, parent/ carer or a health professional, feel free to type your question here.

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What difference do we make?

Our Impact

An independent evaluation of Integrating found that the organization helps young people to show significant progress in their behaviour and to develop skills, which has a positive impact on the whole family. Parents saw the organization as being committed to the young people and delivering a high-quality and unique model of service.

Parent Testimonial:

"Integrating has not just made a difference, it is the reason we are able to be a family. The activities that my child does enables him to have a social life, friends, interests and something worth talking about. The experiences he gains in activities are so important to his mental health and wellbeing. Not just to him but to the whole family, as we know he is having fun and not moping around the house miserable."

A parent shares their experience with Integrating.


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WE NEED YOUR HELP

Support Us

As a local charity, we are incredibly grateful to the wonderful people and organisations who have supported us over the years. We wouldn't be able to do what we do without their help and fundraising efforts.

Like many UK charities, we rely heavily on donations and grants from local communities, the general public, friends, family and local authorities. To meet our demand, we need to raise a significant amount of money throughout the year to ensure that our activities are regularly available to our members. Every little counts.

If you would like to support us or have ideas for fundraising, please get in touch. If you would like to donate now, you can do so via our JustGiving page linked below or contact us directly. Contact details can be found on the website.


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