During the financial year, Mindful Mavericks CIC delivered grassroots programmes treating digital inclusion and mental wellbeing as intertwined goals to combat social isolation among adult men, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds. All resource surpluses were strictly reinvested to maximise local community value. Our core activities achieved the following measurable community impacts, Creative Wellbeing,5K Steps and Snapshots, Facilitated an 8 week winter project in Waltham Forest combining gentle walking, smartphone photography, and informal peer support. Achieving 24 attendances, it lowered the conversational pressure that often deters men from traditional clinical mental health services. Devices were loaned to ensure full digital inclusion, and 20 winter warmer packs were distributed to vulnerable and homeless individuals. Modern Digital Literacy, Mastering AI Workshops, Designed and delivered a 6 week practical curriculum teaching modern AI tools, like ChatGPT and Gemini, for everyday household management, employment tasks, and communication. The collaborative environment directly bridged the digital divide, building technical confidence while turning digital training into a shared social connection that mitigated isolation. Employability and Advice Hubs, Step Forward Saturdays, established a weekly weekend drop in hub at Leytonstone Library. The initiative provided a crucial local safety net by pairing structured career workshops, CV building and digital job applications, with light touch everyday support, housing and benefits form filling, successfully reengaging marginalised men with public community resources.

Identification of Stakeholders The company’s primary stakeholders include our service participants, socially isolated, marginalised, and digitally excluded adult men, local authority and funding partners Waltham Forest Council, Waltham Forest Giving, and Groundwork community venue partners Leytonstone Library, and the company’s internal governance team, the Founder and Director, Company Secretary, and Board Directors. How Stakeholders Have Been Consulted Internal Governance and Directors. We held structured, regular board and strategy meetings on a monthly basis to review delivery safety, resource allocation, and project pipelines. In instances where a director was unable to attend the scheduled session, the Founder arranged an ad-hoc, one-to-one meeting to get them fully up to speed, ensuring continuous oversight and unanimous alignment with our Community Interest Statement. Service Participants, Frontline beneficiaries were consulted throughout our delivery cycles via informal, low-pressure weekly feedback discussions during projects like 5K Steps and Snapshots, post-programme evaluations, and face-to-face drop-in reviews at our library hub. Local Delivery Partners Ongoing operational reviews were conducted with library staff and local authority contacts to ensure compliance with community needs, accessibility standards, and public safeguarding. Action Taken in Response to Feedback Lowering Engagement Barriers: In response to direct feedback from men who expressed reluctance to engage with traditional, clinical mental health settings, we actively adapted our outreach. We embedded peer-led wellbeing support into highly practical, everyday activities, such as creative smartphone photography walks and modern digital literacy training (Mastering AI), drastically reducing conversational pressure and increasing project retention. Addressing Digital Exclusion Feedback from early participants highlighted that a lack of hardware prevented them from practising digital skills at home. In response, the CIC integrated a hardware loan system (smartphones and portable power banks) directly into its project delivery. Expanding Essential Local Provision Recognising heightened vulnerability among participants during winter delivery, community feedback prompted us to expand our baseline support. We successfully assembled and distributed 20 winter warmer packs to vulnerable attendees and local individuals experiencing homelessness, enhancing our localised safeguarding-aware support framework.

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