We are a community interest company registered in Huddersfield. We work with people aged 18 and over who are care-experienced, estranged from family, or facing homelessness.
Four service lines are in planning. This page sets out who we are, how we are governed, and what we can evidence today.
A home is the start of it. Everything else gets easier once someone has a door of their own.
01 — WHAT WE DO
Each line has a colour, taken from our mark. We use those colours consistently across this site and in our documents, so you can follow one service line through a proposal without hunting for it.
All four are at the planning stage. Nothing below is operating yet, and we will not describe it as though it is.
Help to find a home, set it up and keep it. Practical support with tenancies, bills, benefits and the day-to-day of living on your own.
Our first planned service is self-contained supported flats for adults aged 18 to 25, with support based at the accommodation.
Going to people rather than waiting for them to come to us. Working alongside teams and venues that people already trust.
Aimed at adults who have fallen out of contact with services, or who never had a route in.
Short, regular drop-ins in libraries, community centres and partner buildings. No appointment, no referral.
Practical questions answered on the day: housing options, benefits, ID, next steps. We hand on to specialists where that is the right thing.
Support into college, training, apprenticeships and paid work, at the pace the person sets.
Includes the unglamorous parts: forms, bus routes, interview clothes, someone to ring afterwards.
02 — WHO WE SUPPORT
We work with people across West Yorkshire. Most will have had some contact with the care system, but we do not ask people to prove a category before we talk to them.
We are an adults service. We do not work with under-18s.
West Yorkshire — Kirklees, Calderdale, Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield
03 — HOW WE WORK
Support plans, keywork notes and incidents are recorded to a written standard. Records are what make a service auditable, and auditable is what makes it fundable.
Care-experienced people will sit in the design and review of what we run. We would rather build slowly with them than quickly without.
04 — GOVERNANCE AND ASSURANCE
Named directors are on the public register at Companies House. Roles are shown here rather than names so this page stays accurate between appointments.
As a community interest company we hold a statutory asset lock. Assets and surpluses are retained for community benefit and cannot be distributed for private gain.
We will file an annual community interest report (form CIC 34) alongside our accounts, setting out what we did and who benefited.
Around 32 policies across 5 packs: safeguarding, operations, people, health and safety and premises, and a resident guide.
A risk register of 19 risks is maintained and reviewed by the board.
Being clear about the edges of a service is part of running one safely. If you need something on this list, we will say so early and point you to someone who can help.
05 — START HERE
06 — GOVERNANCE
Empowering Support and Solutions CIC is a community interest company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (company number [INSERT]). As a CIC we are subject to a statutory asset lock: our assets and any surplus are committed permanently to our community purpose and cannot be distributed to directors or members.
On dissolution, our remaining assets pass in equal shares to two named asset-locked bodies: Conscious Youth C.I.C. (company number 10532404) and Rise In Unity CIC (company number 15333622).
The board is made up of three directors. Davina Allette and Dorran Noel are founding directors with operational responsibility. [INSERT NAME] serves as an independent non-executive director and is unpaid. Any payment to a director for operational work requires approval by the directors who have no interest in it, and is disclosed in our annual CIC34 report to the CIC Regulator.
We are not a regulated care provider and not an Ofsted-registered children's service. We provide accommodation-based housing-related support.
Our full governance and policy pack, including our safeguarding, data protection, recruitment and vetting, and health and safety policies, is available to commissioners, funders and partners on request. Contact us at [INSERT EMAIL].
07 — CONTACT
One inbox, read by a director. Tell us who you are and what you need, and we will reply with something useful rather than a brochure.
2 Ground Floor, St Peter's Street
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD1 1LN
United Kingdom
This is a registered address for correspondence. It is not a drop-in or service location.
