REEL Rack

The Rack is our emergency clothing project, providing individuals and families with essential clothing and practical items during times of personal or family crisis. 

Delivered with dignity and care, The Rack offers immediate support when it is most needed, helping to reduce stress, restore confidence, and support stability during difficult circumstances.

We take the REEL Rack Clothing Project directly into communities, removing barriers to access and meeting people where they live and socialise. 

By working in trusted, familiar spaces, we increase engagement, dignity, and inclusion—ensuring support reaches those who may otherwise be excluded or overlooked.

WOVEN workshops are designed to reduce social isolation and strengthen communication, confidence, and a sense of belonging. 

Using recycled clothing donated to REEL Rack that cannot be used in our emergency provision, participants take part in shared sewing activities to learn practical, sustainable skills while connecting with others in a supportive, welcoming space.

REEL Women- Prevention is a six-week domestic abuse prevention programme, co-designed with participants to promote healthy relationships, self-esteem, confidence, and the five ways to wellbeing. 

The programme supports Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’s Domestic Abuse Partnership priorities, particularly around prevention, early identification, and early intervention.

The group provides a safe, supportive space for women to recognise early signs of abuse, including coercive and controlling behaviour, and to seek support before harm escalates. It also reaches women who may not feel able or ready to engage with formal domestic abuse services, offering accessible, trusted early intervention.

Rise Up Women – Recovery is a six-week, trauma-informed peer support programme delivered in community settings and women’s refuges, supporting women to rebuild their lives after violence and abuse. 

The programme directly supports Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’s Domestic Abuse Partnership priorities, including prevention, early intervention, survivor recovery, and reducing repeat harm.

Sessions focus on recovery, safety, self-esteem, mental wellbeing, and supporting children, while empowering women to shape future support through lived-experience leadership.

Embrace – Finding You! is a focused 4-week personal development programme that supports individuals to reconnect with their strengths, build confidence, and rediscover belief in themselves. 

Mapped to the Five Ways to Wellbeing Programme, this course creates a supportive space for reflection, learning, and growth, helping participants recognise their potential and clarify their goals.

Through practical, strengths-based learning and guided support, participants are empowered to take positive, achievable steps towards education, training, volunteering, or employment. 

DrumLife is a transformative 8-week programme that uses drumming and music to engage, inspire, and empower participants. 

Through creative expression and structured life-skills learning, the programme builds positive wellbeing, confidence, emotional resilience, and self-belief. 

Central to DrumLife is learning about healthy relationships, supporting participants to develop respect, communication skills, boundaries, and positive behaviours that enable lasting personal growth and safer connections with others.

Baby Grow Wild is a four-week, nature-based wellbeing project for parents and babies aged 0–2, delivered by REEL CIC in partnership with Lees Park Eco Hub and Northern Lily. 

The project offers a calm, inclusive outdoor space where parents and babies can slow down, connect and spend time together in nature.

Sessions focus on being rather than doing, supporting early bonding, mindfulness and sensory connection through gentle activities such as nature exploration, song and play. Baby Grow Wild also creates opportunities for peer connection, helping reduce isolation and support wellbeing during early parenthood.