Chris Thwaites

St Anne's Community Services

St Anne's Community provides a wide range of quality services for people who require support. We work with people who have a learning disability, have mental health problems, have issues around substance use – drugs and/or alcohol – or who are or have been homeless. Services include a variety of housing and accommodation based support and care, day services and community based support. St Anne's Community Services is a major provider of services across the whole of Yorkshire and the North East. Established in 1971, this Leeds based charity, with our headquarters on St Mark's Avenue, has expanded over the last 48 years and now is a major provider with services across Yorkshire, The Humber and the North East of England. We support hundreds of people and employ upwards of 1500 staff. The people we support are at the heart of everything we do and we aim to make a positive difference to their lives. We are innovative in approach and have never lost focus in our sim to strive to constantly improve and design pioneering approaches to meeting the needs of the most vulnerable members of our society.