D.I.S.C. Registered Charity

DISC is now one of Northern England’s most successful home grown charities. We provide specialist services across the North East, Yorkshire and Humber and the North West. These include substance use, clinical, employment training and education, housing support and health, young people and families services.We offer affordable accommodation as a Registered Social Landlord via DISC Housing and promote volunteering/employment opportunities through More Time UK DISC’s social enterprise. Our Vision is to support people to fulfill their potential and to help them become a contributing member of society. Our Mission is to promote social inclusion. Our Values inform everything we do.We value - Fairness – we are committed to equality of opportunity and access for allIntegrity – we are respectful, caring, open, honest and realisticSafety – we provide safe, welcoming environments for service users and staffQuality – we strive to deliver services that meet the highest professional standardsEffective Engagement – we are committed to involving our staff, services users and stakeholders and local communities in the planning and development of our services to ensure services are flexible and responsiveReducing deprivation and exclusionFor over 30 years, DISC has been committed to reducing deprivation and exclusion and to improving people’s well-being. DISC then led the development of innovative services for people who were homeless through the establishment of ‘accommodation registers’ and independent living support for care leavers.In 1992, to reflect our broadening footprint, we changed our name to DISC – Developing Initiatives for Support in the Community.