CANDI CIC
Nominee Profile
Location: Bromley
Creative and Neuro-Diverse Innovations (CANDI) CIC is a Bromley-based Community Interest Company creating inclusive, affordable and meaningful opportunities for neurodivergent people, people with learning difficulties, socially anxious individuals and the wider community. Founded through lived experience, CANDI exists to reduce isolation, build confidence and create spaces where people can connect, contribute and feel accepted as themselves.
Through Rhiannon’s Café, inclusive social clubs, nightlife-style events, creative activities, enterprise projects and volunteering opportunities, CANDI supports people to develop friendships, skills, confidence and a sense of belonging. Many of the people CANDI works with have experienced exclusion from mainstream education, employment, social opportunities or community life. CANDI responds by offering low-pressure, welcoming environments where difference is understood and inclusion is built into everyday practice.
Since its inception, CANDI has supported hundreds of people each year through its café, clubs, community events and enterprise activities. Its regular social opportunities give neurodivergent adults and young people the chance to make friends, take part in community life, volunteer, learn new skills and enjoy experiences that may otherwise feel inaccessible.
CANDI’s work is rooted in equality, diversity and lived experience. It champions neurodiversity, challenges isolation and creates practical opportunities for people to be visible, valued and involved. The organisation is now working to develop its provision further, with the aim of creating a dedicated inclusive wellbeing and creativity space for the Bromley community.
Being nominated for a National Diversity Award is a powerful recognition of CANDI’s mission: to create places and opportunities where people do not have to mask, fit in or be “fixed” — they can simply belong.
Through Rhiannon’s Café, inclusive social clubs, nightlife-style events, creative activities, enterprise projects and volunteering opportunities, CANDI supports people to develop friendships, skills, confidence and a sense of belonging. Many of the people CANDI works with have experienced exclusion from mainstream education, employment, social opportunities or community life. CANDI responds by offering low-pressure, welcoming environments where difference is understood and inclusion is built into everyday practice.
Since its inception, CANDI has supported hundreds of people each year through its café, clubs, community events and enterprise activities. Its regular social opportunities give neurodivergent adults and young people the chance to make friends, take part in community life, volunteer, learn new skills and enjoy experiences that may otherwise feel inaccessible.
CANDI’s work is rooted in equality, diversity and lived experience. It champions neurodiversity, challenges isolation and creates practical opportunities for people to be visible, valued and involved. The organisation is now working to develop its provision further, with the aim of creating a dedicated inclusive wellbeing and creativity space for the Bromley community.
Being nominated for a National Diversity Award is a powerful recognition of CANDI’s mission: to create places and opportunities where people do not have to mask, fit in or be “fixed” — they can simply belong.