Creative Support

Creative Support is a Manchester-based charity which works with adults with learning difficulties and mental health issues providing supported housing and community services.
History.
It was established in 1990 and registered in 1991 as an Industrial and Provident Society with charitable status. It was then called Manchester Housing Consortium. It is a Registered Social Landlord and became a Community Benefit Society with charitable status under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. The present Chief Executive, Anna Lunts, a mental health nurse who had been involved in the closure of a long stay psychiatric hospital was the first employee. For the first five years resettling former patients of mental health hospitals was the main work of the organisation.
A head office was opened in Manchester city centre in 1996 and moved to Stockport in 2019. The organisation has since expanded both geographically and in the scope of its services. It merged with the charity SPACE, based in Preston, Lancashire, who provided sensory experiences for children and adults with a range of needs in 2013. In February 2014 it acquired Delos Community Limited which provided services to people with a learning disability and other needs in Northamptonshire. It now has more than 5000 staff. In 2014 over half of the services provided were for people with learning disabilities.
Services.
In 2020 it was supporting about 7000 people across England with learning disability, autism and mental health needs and people with a physical disability and older people with care and support needs, including people living with dementia. and an additional 1400 tenants in supported housing, and had more than 5000 staff.
It runs: