Beyond the Margin

Who we are

At Beyond the Margin, we’ve reimagined community and school-based support for children, young people and adults by providing safe and creative spaces where everyone can heal, change, and grow. Our projects enhance skills, build resilience, improve wellbeing and show people that if they can imagine it, it’s within their reach. Some of our core projects include:

Project HOPE delivers early intervention through arts-based psychotherapy for 6–14 year olds with high needs and risk factors from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Meeting children where they’re at with a safe, creative outlet for processing trauma.

Holmewood Community Library is more than books it’s a welcoming hub that brings people together, fosters creativity, and strengthens community connections.

Head, Heart, Holme provides therapeutic support for women who are parents, offering a safe, non-judgemental space to explore challenges and build resilience. Supporting women living with trauma and adversity by helping them strengthen their wellbeing and family relationships.

Our culture and values

Everything we do is shaped by our relationships, values and a deep belief in the potential of people and place. Our values SPARK are at the heart of everything we do. They guide our work, shape our decisions, and keep us grounded in what matters most: people.

Supportive - We support the people and communities we serve

People-focused - We place people at the centre of everything we do

Asset-based approach - Our passionate team believes in the potential of the people we work with and by focusing on their strengths, we encourage positive change and growth.

Respectful - We’re non-judgemental, inclusive and celebrate diversity. We respect everyone’s opinions and beliefs and treat everyone with dignity.

Kind - We act within our communities, understanding shared experience, and we focus on creating a safe and supportive space for healing and growth.

We beleive the best kind of change doesn’t come from top-down solutions; it grows from within. We help people recognise the strengths, skills and resources they already hold. We’re not here for short-term fixes; we’re in it for the long haul, supporting deep-rooted, sustainable change.

Our education, therapeutic support and creative projects are designed to be flexible, responsive, and person-centred. Whether someone is healing from trauma, looking to build confidence, or searching for their next step, we walk with them, at their pace.

We meet people where they are. We’re embedded in the local community, and that means people trust us. We’re often the service people turn to when others can’t help: those who’ve been excluded, labelled as “too complex”, or left behind by systems not built for them.

We don’t set rigid timeframes. Someone might need more than 12 weeks of therapy, and we get that. Healing takes time. So we stay the course, because real change doesn’t happen on a schedule.

We offer our services free of charge because we know the people who need them most are often those who can least afford them.  We rely on grants, trust funding, and donations to keep our work going. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We endeavour to ensure our services are known, accessible and relevant to people from all sections of the community.

We aim to create an environment in which individual differences and the contributions of all our staff/volunteers are recognised and valued, and everyone who has contact with our organistion experiences an environment that promotes dignity and respect for all 

We make every effort so that training, development and career opportunities are available to all staff and, as appropriate, to all volunteers 

We assess equality impact and undertake regular reviews (of policies, practices and procedures) to identify and tackle any unintentional discrimination we may find in the provision of our services and internal practices 

We aim to challenge discrimination in all its forms, in line with our organisational values 

Our recruitment processes for staff, volunteers and trustees will be fair, transparent and open in line with our Recruitment and Selection Policy 

Every person volunteering or working for Beyond the Margin has a personal responsibility for implementing and promoting our principles in their day-to-day dealings with everyone including members of the public, other volunteers and staff. Breaches of our equality and diversity policy will be regarded as misconduct and could lead to disciplinary proceedings, in line with our complaints policy. Employees can be held personally liable, as well as or instead of the charity, for any act of unlawful discrimination.