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About Us

Eating Distress North East - offering independent confidential services to people affected by eating distress across the North East of England.

Our mission and vision

Who we are

Our offer

Our values

Our objectives

Our approach

Providing a strategic voice

Policies

Annual reports and accounts

Our funders


Our mission and vision

We exist because every individual affected by eating distress deserves specialist support, hope, and to know that recovery is possible.

Our vision is to offer every individual impacted by eating distress in the North East hope, understanding and a route to recovery.

Who we are

We are the only specialist eating distress charity in the North East and aim to be a centre of excellence for eating distress support. We offer counselling, support, information, help and hope to anyone in the North East affected by eating distress.

This support is offered to people who are experiencing eating distress with or without a medical diagnosis.

Our offer

We deliver counselling and psychotherapy, health and wellbeing groups, education, and support to individuals, friends, families and carers, free of charge and by self-referral. Our services include:

  • Free one-to-one counselling
  • Education and training for professionals to aid early identification and prevention
  • Wellbeing workshops for individuals and friends and family

Eating Distress North East was set up in 1988 (formerly called NIWE) and now has a track record of 36 years of experience in delivering high-quality services to anyone experiencing eating distress.

We work to raise awareness, increase understanding and influence early identification and treatment.

Our values

  • Safe: so that people can be themselves 
  • Enterprising: we respond to change and learn from experience 
  • Integrity: because this work matters 
  • Collaboration: we achieve more together 

Our objectives

  • To provide high quality services to anyone experiencing eating distress in the North East
  • To be an organisation that seeks to continuously improve to provide the best possible services
  • To heighten awareness and increase knowledge of eating distress and its impacts
  • To influence the development and improvement of services
  • To be a sustainable organisation maintaining high quality governance and management

Our approach

We align with the NICE Guidelines on Eating Disorders: recognition and treatment. These highlight the need for awareness that eating distress might be a difficult thing to discuss because of feelings of stigma and shame. The guidelines also emphasise the need for people in different protected characteristics groups, with a range of life experiences and across levels of income, to have equitable access to support.

This is why we offer our service for free to anyone over 16 in the North East with or without a medical diagnosis.

Providing a strategic voice

EDNE strives to influence the development and improvement of services for anyone affected by eating distress. We do this by engaging with strategic forums and networks locally, regionally and nationally.

We amplify the voices of service users with funders, commissioners and policymakers in various places including:
The North East and North Cumbria (NENC) ICS Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative; the NENC VCSE Partnership Programme and Mental Health  subgroups; the ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) Champion Groups; and other relevant networks and forums.

We have also taken part in research into the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on people with eating disorders with Northumbria University, facilitating workshops with clients and researchers.

Part of the REDCAN network

We are part of the Regional Eating Disorders Charities and Network (REDCAN) which helps us to share our experiences, learn from others, and campaign with a raised profile on issues affecting people with eating disorders.
View the REDCAN website.


Policies

Privacy policy

Data Protection

Complaints policy

Whistleblowing policy

Annual reports and accounts

You can view our latest annual reports and accounts on the Charity Commission website.

Our funders

We are grateful to the following organisations for funding our work:


Our impact

Find out the impact on our service users, prevention and early intervention.

Meet the Team

We have a skilled and dedicated staff team who are committed to delivering high quality services across all areas of the organisation

Vacancies

Find out about our paid employment and placement opportunities and help us support people on their route to recovery

What you say

Testimonials

You think you’re the only person in the world. Now I’ve found out I’m not the only one.

Testimonials

The counselling sessions were absolutely amazing and life-changing.

Testimonials

I used to block out feeling with food, it’s not like that now’

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