Maldon Partners

BOSP supports children and young adults with complex disabilities or life-limiting conditions, and their families, by providing high-quality, fun, educational activities, respite, peer support and counselling.

Crossroads Braintree and Chelmsford provides the following services for family carers in Mid-Essex. 

Respite Sitting Service 

Befriending Service 

Respite Day Care for older people 

We provide emotional, practical support, advice and guidance. 

We provide Essex residents (excluding Southend-On-Sea and Thurrock) with access to health checks; stop smoking services; weight management courses; and emotional health and wellbeing support. All of our services are free.

We are an independent, parent-led charity, providing specialist and person-centred support to families who have a child or young person with any special educational need or disability (SEND). We can offer:

• Information and advice, and a helpline;
• One to one support including assistance with Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payments (PIP) applications;
• Independent parental support on all educational issues includes assessments, education health care plans and exclusions;
• Support through group activities including a Saturday Activity Club.

We give parents and their children a voice, and help families to navigate the system and access exactly what they are entitled to. We work alongside families, to empower and give confidence. 

“I honestly believe the support and guidance you provide is invaluable. I can’t thank you enough. I felt so supported and understood. When I couldn’t turn to others I could to Families InFocus.”

Our service is free to access, and anyone from Essex who has a child or young person with any SEND can get in touch.

Home-Start Essex aims to give children the best possible start in life by supporting parents and caregivers to feel less isolated, to build their confidence in themselves and their parenting and to find ways to manage the challenges they face. We build trusting, helpful relationships with families and deliver a range of flexible support to meet their individual needs, including volunteer-led home visiting, family groups, wellbeing services, school-readiness, and behaviour support programmes.

Kids Inspire is a children’s mental health charity supporting children and young people aged 4-18 from low-income households and their families navigating mental health challenges and trauma. We do this through creative and arts-based trauma informed therapies, mentoring and community-based activities.  

Kooth.com is commissioned to provide an online wellbeing platform which along with text based counselling also includes helpful articles, forums, activity centre, daily journal and messaging. We provide British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy accredited services and Kooth is available to young people aged 11-18 in Essex. 

The service provides a free and non-judgemental place for children and young people to connect with others and know they are not alone. They have instant access to self-help materials, fully moderated discussion forums and tools such as online journals and goal trackers. They can also contribute written pieces of work reflecting their own experiences, as well as accessing drop-in or booked text-based counselling sessions with professional counsellors.

These are online services that offer anonymised support via online counsellors, available 365 days a year, 12pm -10pm on weekdays and 6pm-10pm on weekends. 

Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd is the trading arm of The Salvation Army in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

We were established in 1991 to help fund The Salvation Army’s vital work with vulnerable people in the UK, and today we raise money and encourage reuse and recycling through a network of over 230 charity shops and a clothing collection division.

Our core purpose is to provide The Salvation Army with resources to enhance its mission.

We pride ourselves on:

• Acting with… Responsibility, ensuring that we are good custodians of the resources entrusted to us
• Acting with… Honesty, at all times upholding the integrity of the organisation. We will be truthful to ourselves and trusting in each other.
• Demonstrating…Commitment in our day to day work, in order that the company can best support the aims and objectives of The Salvation Army.
• Showing… Respect, honouring the admiration in which The Salvation Army is held. We will mirror the esteem for the organisation and each individual within it.
• Striving for… Excellence in all that we do, particularly in the area of customer service.
• Acting with… Compassion, demonstrating an awareness of, and sensitivity towards each other, creating a desire to embrace the distressed and comfort those in need.

In our charity shops, we offer our volunteers the chance to gain some valuable retail experience, build their confidence and social skills and be part of our team. We cater for Neurodiverse and disabled volunteers.

Short courses and NVQ qualifications are available (dependant on criteria) and are facilitated through our own award winning 'learning booth'

25% Discount is also available on goods purchased in store.

Bus fares can be returned and lunches can be provided.

Partnering with parents, we support families whose children have additional needs or disabilities by providing compassion, guidance and hope.

The core aim of the Change Project is to promote personal wellbeing through enabling people to have healthy relationships in families, between individuals, and in the community.