Tel: 07847 521291 ABOUT US ACT Community Partnership has to date been successful in securing a building and undergone extensive renovations to provide a fit for purpose resource centre for the primary purpose of Advice, Counselling and Training. The organisation is actively developing a network of strategic partners to provide front line services to the local community through the different strands. In addition the new facility (The ACT Centre Blackpool) will provide accommodation for front line organisations as well as training and meeting space for hire. WAYS TO TRADE WITH THIS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE The centre boasts meeting space and training rooms that are available to hire. 204 hits Unit 6 Greetby Place Tel: 07964 826017 Web: www.anteroscommunity.co.uk Anteros Community provides music education and support for professionals and enthusiasts within the music community and music industry. 340 hits Darwen End, Ewood Park Contact: Deborah Blades Tel: 01254 508256 Web: www.rovers.co.uk/community ABOUT US Blackburn Rovers Community Trust (Registered Charity No. 1117122) is fully committed to offering all members of the local community access to the highest quality programme of grassroots football, education, inclusion initiatives and awareness projects to encourage off-field participation, success and enjoyment using the crest and brand name of Blackburn Rovers Football Club. The power of football to engage, enthuse and motivate people irrespective of age, gender and ethnicity is now recognised on many stages. As a vehicle through which community cohesion in its broadest terms of ‘narrowing the gap’ in health, education, aspirations and opportunity can be addressed, the local draw of Blackburn Rovers and the unrivalled power of the brand to bring additional credibility cannot be underestimated. 156 hits Contact: Paul Rawson Tel: 07964 202525 ABOUT US We support vulnerable people in Blackpool. We help to make Blackpool a safer place to be in the evening. Some of our services: We also have a facility called Angels Rest used to run education and support groups 35 hits CGL HQ – Towerpoint Contact: Katie Bebbington ABOUT US Change Grow Live is a charity specialising in Substance Misuse and Criminal Justice intervention projects in England and Wales. We’re funded by councils and local authorities who commission us to provide services, and we sometimes receive donations from the public. Because we’re not a business, we’re not looking to make a profit. So we can focus on making sure that everything we do is helping the people who use our services, and the wider public too. In Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, we operate under the brands Inspire, New You and Go2. Within all our services in Lancashire, we have teams that support with all of the following and much more 176 hits 178 Holmfield Road Contact: Dianne Tew Tel: 07799 711337 Email: dianne@chapter3.org.uk Web: www.chapter3.org.uk About Us A not for profit organisation with a strong commitment to communities and society focused on helping create economic and social value through enterprise. We are a small but perfectly formed community interest company with many years of leadership and enterprise experience and great passion for what we do. Our experiences, skills and wisdom being built-up through running businesses and working with hundreds of start-ups, in particular micro-businesses and the third sector. We deliver practical workshops providing guidance and creative solutions that help business, non profits, communities and individuals, get unstuck and move forwards. 213 hits 35-39 Fazakerly Street Contact: Donna Hussain Tel: 01257 226516 Email: donnalhussain@gmail.com ABOUT US We are an infrastructure support service offering infrastructure to third sector organisations in order to build capacity within the sector for economic and social improvement. We work with all sectors to enhance services and support them to become more effective and efficient. 360 hits 7 Cecil Street Contact: Dave Hollings Tel: 01900 810 810 Web: www.cms.coop Co-operative and Mutual Solutions (CMS) Ltd provides specialist business advice and training to co-operatives and social enterprises. The Directors have experience of start up, growth, succession situations (community and employee buyouts) and externalisation from public authorities/charitable organisations. We offer advice as to the best legal form and business model. We work with a wide range of people: employees, users/consumers and other stakeholders to ensure that the model is appropriate. We have particular experience in community sports and leisure, retail including food, waste and recycling, renewable energy, social and health care. We have expertise in the following areas: feasibility studies, business and financial planning, marketing, legal structures, good board governance, finance raising including community share issues. Co-operative and Mutual Solutions (CMS) Ltd is the lead partner in the C-Change programme a scheme for new/trading co-operatives (funded by the Co-operative Group) and which allows them access to specialist consultancy. 734 hits 36 Briercliffe Road Contact: Ibrar Syed Tel: 07545 261780 Web: www.ehabits.org.uk ABOUT US We offer a range of services to local residents and families across East Lancashire that includes vocational qualifications, functional skills, employability skills, enterprise support, bi-lingual info advice and guidance, traineeship (16-25) etc. WAYS TO TRADE WITH THIS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE We deliver services such as an employability support programme, traineeship, apprenticeship, SIA courses, Adult Education Budget, ESOL classes, IT courses, bespoke business start-up support, entrepreneurship and info advice & guidance 191 hits Contact: Gareth Nash Web: www.prestoncoopdevelopment.org Email: gareth@cms.coop Preston Co-operative Development Network supports new and trading co-operatives in Preston and surrounds. It does this through webinars and workshops, networking events and specialist support. 52 hits 25-27 Victoria Street Tel: 07974 383784 Web: www.queensmarket.org ABOUT US Queen’s Market Morecambe is an amazing building that has the potential to create a social enterprise that will generate profit to reinvest. Enabling Ambitious Opportunities, investing in joined-up thinking and connecting cogs that already exist, bringing unity to the community. 108 hits Contact: Martin Needham Tel: 01254 720740 Web: www.rainbowyouthcentre.com ABOUT US We are youth hub specialising in helping young members of the LGBTQI+ community with mental health issues & social anxiety, we act as a safe space for young people to come, and be themselves ask for help or advice, or just to find a friend. WAYS TO TRADE WITH THIS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE The Rainbow Youth Centre have an online shop selling various items to help raise funds for the centre. 101 hits 28 Cromwell Grove Contact: Jez Hall Tel: 07963 706106 Website: www.sharedfuturecic.org.uk We are a community interest company based in the North West of England, operating across the UK. Offering consultancy, research and development services to the public sector and the social economy. We specialise in three main areas of work: The social economy, community engagement and public participation. We prioritise work related to climate change and environmental sustainability. Through our extensive associate network Shared Future can support with: 696 hits Blackburn Central Library Contact: Kimberley Helm Tel: 0344 515 1882 Web: www.shelter.org.uk Email: Kimberley_helm@shelter.org.uk A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle daily with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home; our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. Above all we seek a transformation in housing policy, including investment in homes people on low incomes can afford – an investment that has been missing for decades and from all political parties, so that now the human cost has become intolerable. At Shelter Lancashire we have been working in the community delivering specialist housing, debt and welfare benefits advice for over 20 years. We are committed to improving the lives of those in our community by creating systems change. WAYS TO TRADE WITH THIS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Shop at Shelter 94 hits Blackpool Enterprise Centre Contact: Tony Carr Tel: (01253) 344123 Web: www.socialenterprisesolutions.co.uk Social Enterprise Solutions CIC supports the start-up, development and growth of social enterprises primarily in the northwest. Registered in May 2006 as the first Community Interest Company in Blackpool, our foundation Directors have many years of experience in running businesses and of social enterprise infrastructure development. In the2010 RBS SE100 data report we were listed as the 3rd fastest growing social business in the northwest and 23rd in the UK. The company has grown rapidly, notably winning contracts from Blackpool Council, Knowsley MBC and 3SC. These contracts have enabled us to develop social enterprises across the northwest. As thought leaders on social enterprise development and innovation, we are consulted by Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, NHS Hospital Foundation Trusts, Housing Associations and Schools as they seek to implement the government’s agenda on social enterprise growth. Our reach now covers the whole of the northwest through our successful delivery of over 150 Future Jobs Fund placements which has resulted in 20% permanent staff retention. We provide a bespoke service adapted to each client’s needs, including: We also work with and advise many private sector organisations as they seek to understand and engage with the social enterprise business model. 1047 hits 70 Mowbray Drive Contact: Alistair Clarke Tel: (01253) 302602 Twice nominated as Creative Company of the Year, Tick The Publicity Box – specialists in media, marketing and PR – gives clients in the third sector a professional image and assists them with all aspects of promotion from design and printing, buying media space, staging events and presentations. The social enterprise also provides services to local authorities and the NHS which, in turn, provides a surplus which helps various charitable groups. To us, the key to a successful social economy is for CICs to keep focused on building their business, making it sustainable and winning more contracts. Providing them with a professional image and meaningful marketing is critical to delivering that success. 848 hits
Contact: David Flanagan
Email: contact@actcommunity.co.uk
Skelmersdale
WN8 9UL
Contact: James Hoy
Email: admin@anteroscommunity.co.uk
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Nuttall Street
Blackburn
BB2 4JF
Email: deborah.blades@brfctrust.co.uk
Email: paulrawson.bfsa@gmail.com
44 North Road
Brighton
BN1 1YR
Email: katie.bebbington@cgl.org.uk
Blackpool
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Chorley
PR7 2SW
Lytham
Lancashire
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Email: dave[at]cms.coop
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Burnley
BB10 1 XB
Email: contact@ehabits.org.uk
About Us
Morecambe
LA4 4AE
Contact: Nick Smith
Email: queensmarketmorecambe@gmail.com
Email: office@rainbowyouthcentre.com 
Martin Needham of Rainbow Youth Centre won our Social Enterprise Champion award in 2022.
Manchester
M19 3GB
Email: info@sharedfuturecic.org.uk
About Us
Town Hall Street
Blackburn
BB2 1AG
About Us
With almost 100 charity stores across the UK and a curated online store, browse second-hand items, vintage and designer clothes that help us end housing injustice
Lytham Road
Blackpool
Lancashire
FY4 1EW
Email: admin@socialenterprisesolutions.co.uk
About Us
Tony Carr of Social Enterprise Solutions won our Social Enterprise Champion award in 2021.
Blackpool
Lancashire
FY3 7UN
Email: alistair[at]publicitybox.co.uk
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