During this financial year, Shudan Community Interest Company (CIC) has continued to deliver targeted community-based programmes that support the wellbeing, confidence, and development of children, young people, and adults facing disadvantage. Our Fit and Fed programme has remained a core part of our delivery, running during every school holiday. The project continues to address holiday hunger, social isolation, and low physical activity levels by providing structured sports sessions, creative activities, and nutritious hot meals. We have adapted delivery to meet changing needs, including supporting younger children and those with additional needs through more inclusive activities such as drawing, small group work, and guided discussions. As a result, children have improved their confidence, built friendships, and developed healthier routines during school holidays. Alongside this, we have developed and begun delivering the Empower and Integrate project, which supports refugees and asylum seekers living in temporary accommodation across Northamptonshire. This programme provides weekly sessions that combine English language development, employability support, and practical life skills such as understanding banking, budgeting, and navigating daily life in the UK. The project creates safe, welcoming spaces where individuals can meet others, share experiences, and begin to rebuild their lives. Participants are encouraged to take part as peer mentors, helping others settle in and contributing to the delivery of sessions. Early engagement has shown increased confidence, reduced isolation, and improved understanding of essential life skills. Our work this year has responded directly to community need, particularly linked to the cost of living, social isolation, and barriers to integration. Through strong local partnerships and ongoing engagement with beneficiaries, we have ensured our programmes remain relevant and accessible. Overall, Shudan CIC has continued to make a clear difference within the community by supporting people to build confidence, develop practical skills, and feel more connected.

During this financial year, Shudan CIC has actively engaged with a range of stakeholders to ensure our services remain relevant and responsive to community need. Our key stakeholders include children and young people participating in Fit and Fed, their parents and carers, refugees and asylum seekers involved in the Empower and Integrate project, local councils, partner organisations such as Migrant Help, schools, and community-based groups. We also work closely with delivery staff and sessional coaches who provide frontline insight into participant needs. We have consulted stakeholders through informal conversations, group discussions, feedback forms, and regular engagement during project delivery. For Fit and Fed, feedback from parents and children has been gathered on a daily basis during holiday sessions. This has helped us understand changing needs, particularly the increase in younger children and those with additional needs. In response, we have adapted activities to be more inclusive, introducing creative sessions such as drawing and small group discussions alongside sports. For the Empower and Integrate project, consultation has been central to its design. We spoke directly with residents living in migrant hotels, alongside support workers and local partners. These conversations highlighted key challenges such as language barriers, lack of understanding around banking and budgeting, and feelings of isolation. In response, we developed a programme that combines English language support, employability coaching, and practical life skills. We also introduced peer mentoring to allow participants to support one another and shape the sessions. Ongoing feedback continues to inform our delivery. Participants are encouraged to share their views regularly, and we have made adjustments to session content, delivery style, and support offered based on this input. This approach ensures that Shudan CIC remains community-led, responsive, and focused on delivering services that reflect the real experiences and needs of the people we support.

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