Organisation Info

Chain Lane Community Hub
Chain Lane
Knaresborough
HG5 0AS

East Riding of Yorkshire
Craven
Hambleton
Harrogate
Richmondshire
Ryedale
Scarborough
Selby
York

Better Connect is a Knaresborough-based non-profit organisation that aims to create a Yorkshire where every person is empowered to thrive in their life and work.

Founded in 2007, we have an established track record of leading successful partnership projects and working with a wide range of locally based partners in the heart of communities.

We partner with organisations across all sectors, with a particular focus and specialism of supporting and strengthening organisations from the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

We believe that locally rooted organisations with a strong social mission who work in effective partnership with others have the biggest impact on individuals and communities. We exist to create those partnerships and unlock the potential of local organisations

We design and lead innovative partnership projects that transform the lives of people across Yorkshire.

It’s not what you do, but how you do it….

We get regular feedback from participants and delivery partners that our projects are different to anything they have experienced before. Better Connect projects make people feel like they matter and that their voice is important.

People involved in our projects feel empowered to make decisions, supported to try new things and valued just for being themselves.

This is fundamental to our mission and hardwired into everything we do.

We work with partners, not sub-contractors.

We support participants, not recipients.

Our leadership is about empowerment and co-creation, not instructing and enforcing.

Since our inception in 2007, we’ve designed and led dozens of different programmes working with hundreds of partners and transforming the lives of thousands of people.