What is REACH?
REACH provides activities to unlock the potential within people who feel socially excluded or who have committed offences.
Our Aim:
To provide activities that discourage anti-social behaviour and attitudes , reduce re-offending, improve health, address social exclusion and promote education, training and employment.
R Rehabilitation and re-modelling
E Education: providing training, employment and mentoring.
A Access: providing access to services that improve lives.
C Co-ordination: bringing together organisations and services.
H Health: providing health education.
REACH supports targets within the Gloucestershire Local Area Agreement (www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/laa)
Background:
REACH is a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee, with locked assets. It is led by a ‘Board of Members’ who represent the social sector, media industry and business and managed by a director. REACH also has several 'champions' who meet once a year to provide ongoing support in promoting and upholding its activities.
Service users [students] are generally, but not limited to, people who feel socially excluded; these include community payback workers, people with learning difficulties, children at risk of being excluded from mainstream education, the long term unemployed, ex-offenders and the homeless.
“Social exclusion is about the inability of our society to keep all groups and individuals within reach of what we expect as a society...[or] to realise their full potential." William Julius Wilson
