Burnley Road
Bacup
OL13 8EU

Contact: Peter Dunn

Tel: 07718 901813

Email: pdunn@abdcentre.org.uk

Web: www.abdcentre.org.uk

About Us

The ABD Community Centre is a unique and valued social inclusive community resource in the centre of Bacup.

It’s aim is to provide a resource centre that will address the wellbeing and needs of local people.

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ABD can provide room hire, office lets and always looks to bring additional services and activities (community support and IT services) into the centre to provide activities and services that people want and need.

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Contact: David Flanagan

Tel: 07847 521291

Email: contact@actcommunity.co.uk

Web: www.actcommunity.co.uk

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. 

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The centre boasts meeting space and training rooms that are available to hire.

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The Old Tannery
Eastgate
Accrington
BB5 6PW

Contact: John Hutchison – Operations Director Leanne Hignett – Service Delivery Director

Telephone: 0300 323 0965

Email: admin@advocacyfocus.org.uk

Web: www.advocacyfocus.org.uk

About Us

Advocacy means supporting somebody to speak up and be listened to, ensuring their views and wishes are heard and taken seriously. Advocacy can enable people to become more involved in important decisions about their health and social care.

Our Advocates help people in the community who have difficulty with communicating their thoughts, needs and wishes. They may also face difficulties with making decisions about things such as how or where they are cared for.

Advocacy can support people to understand their rights, their options, and enable the person to make an informed decision. We help people to live the lives they want to live.

We provide high quality and totally free advocacy support across the North of England that is completely independent of Health and Social care services.

For more information, please visit our website at: www.advocacyfocus.org.uk

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Darwen End, Ewood Park
Nuttall Street
Blackburn
BB2 4JF

Contact: Deborah Blades

Tel: 01254 508256

Email: deborah.blades@brfctrust.co.uk

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.

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Contact: Sarah Johns 

Email: Contact Us

Web: www.blackburnyz.org

About Us

Blackburn Youth Zone is a 21st century youth hub located at the heart of Blackburn, open to young people aged 5 to 19 years old, aiming to change the prospects offered to young people in the area.

Uniquely, this is happening in partnership with young people rather than on their behalf.

As such, the Zone is led with the principle of ‘starting where young people are, going where young people take us’.

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12 Victoria Street
Morecambe
LA4 4AH

Contact: Joseph Gardiner

Tel: 01524 414846

Email: joseph.gardiner@galloways.org.uk

Web: www.galloways.org.uk/morecambe

ABOUT US

Brew Me Sunshine is a Café situated within the old Visitor Newspaper building in Morecambe. The Café space is shared with the Galloway’s sight loss services team and creates a warm friendly approachable atmosphere for people to access and learn about the sight loss support offered by the charity. The profits from the café are donated back to the charity.

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The café is developing and growing with a view to creating employment opportunities for people with visual impairment. Revenue generated by the café supports this work.

This social enterprise also has available office space and can be contacted directly about this.

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CGL HQ – Towerpoint
44 North Road
Brighton
BN1 1YR

Contact: Katie Bebbington

Email: katie.bebbington@cgl.org.uk

Web: www.changegrowlive.org

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

• Clinical interventions for drug and/ or alcohol treatment
• Family Safeguarding
• Criminal Justice
• Homelessness
• Housing
• Education, Training and Employment
• Recovery Support
• Behaviour Change

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178 Holmfield Road
Blackpool
FY2 9PU

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.

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Whalley Road
Wilpshire
Blackburn
BB1 9LL

Contact: Sue Cotton

Tel: 01254 244716

Email: info@canw.org.uk

Website: www.canw.org.uk

About Us

INSPIRING LIVES AND CHANGING FUTURES

It’s what we’ve been doing since 1886, in one form or another!

We passionately believe that every child and young person has the right to achieve their full potential, whatever their background or circumstances – and, as a result, we work with over 6000 children, young people and families in the North West of England every year.  We work in the heart of communities – often in partnership with other organisations – to end family cycles of deprivation, drug and alcohol abuse, lack of self-esteem, youth crime, teenage pregnancies and broken families.

As a result, we help to strengthen individuals, families and communities so that children and young people can lead healthy and meaningful lives, with the opportunity to succeed in school, to grow up to enjoy healthy relationships, to have access to training and employment opportunities and to be successful in the world of work.

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35-39 Fazakerly Street
Chorley
PR7 2SW

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.

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New Era Centre
Paradise Street
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 1PB

Contact: Rachel Whippy

Tel: 0808 278 7975

Web: www.carh.org.uk

ABOUT US

Citizens Advice Rossendale & Hyndburn provides free, impartial and confidential advice to people about the problems they face. We campaing for change to improve the poilicies and practices that affect people’s lives and we value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

We are an independent charity, providing specialist advice services to local people and are part of the Citizens Advice network in England and Wales.

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Boulevard Centre
45 Railway Road
Blackburn
BB1 1EZ

Contact: Garth Hodkinson

Tel: (01254) 583957

Web: www.bwdcvs.org.uk

About Us

Community CVS’ aim is “Connecting People, Growing Communities.” Our mission is “to achieve positive social change by developing active resilient communities and transforming lives through social action.”

We accomplish this in a number of ways under the following four themes: –

• Support – to the most vulnerable in society
• Action – inspiring people to action in our communities
• Resource – developing groups with funding and advice
• Volunteer – connecting people to help their community

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15 Victoria Rd
Fulwood
Preston
PR2 8PS

Contact: Denise Partington

Tel: 01772 717461

Email: admin@communityfutures.org.uk

Web: www.communityfutures.org.uk

ABOUT US

Community Futures is a registered charity (702233) and company limited by guarantee (333713). Our legal name, Community Council of Lancashire, was adopted over 40 years ago to enable us to become a Rural Community Council. This provides us with a unique role in supporting rural community life in Lancashire.

Most of the work we do is rooted in our very first actions as a support agency. Our initial hands on support for unemployed men and their families in Manchester, the flag ship Brentwood House Recuperation Home for Mothers (which also gave refuge to Jewish families fleeing Poland) and an abundance of self-help programmes in some of the most deprived communities in Lancashire all helped to build our credibility and reputation for the work we do today.

Not a lot has changed. We make organisations, individuals and communities better.

This can be better at what they do themselves or for others, but ultimately everything we do has this as a goal. We see evidence of our achievements all over Lancashire, from the community volunteer we supported to take on her own services, to the community that is thriving because we saved its Playgroup.

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Elmfield Hall
Gatty Park
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 4AA

Contact: Deborah Clark

Tel: 01254 460080

Email: info@csnw.co.uk

Web: www.csnw.co.uk

ABOUT US

Community Solutions is a North West based charity that aims to tackle loneliness and social isolation. We believe that every person matters and no person should ever feel alone or lonely.

We support people who are going through life changes or crisis such as bereavement, loss of health, loss of jobs, poverty, mental health issues etc. We offer a range of befriending and mentoring services to help people live healthier, better lives including home visits, social groups, telephone and digital befriending, counselling, crisis support and more.

MISSION

We help people to live healthier, better lives. We believe that every person matters, and no person should ever feel alone or lonely.

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c/o Pathways Associates
Suite 2, Waterside
St James Court West
Accrington
BB5 1NA

Contact: Julie Nicholson 

Email: info@dancesyndrome.co.uk

Web: www.dancesyndrome.co.uk

ABOUT US

DanceSyndrome is an inclusive award-winning North-West dance charity led by dancers with learning disabilities. 

DanceSyndrome believes that everybody belongs and that people with learning disabilities have skills and assets which can contribute to and inspire an equitable civil society.

DanceSyndrome was created in response to the determination of Jen Blackwell, a dancer with Down’s Syndrome who wanted to share her passion for dance and get the world dancing.

She wanted to engage with other dancers, to lead workshops, to choreograph and deliver performances and inspire others to believe in themselves. Supported by her parents Jen spent 10 lonely years searching for opportunities to train to become the community dance worker she sought to be.

Established in 2009 as a limited company, DanceSyndrome became a charity in 2013. Under the current Managing Director, the charity has experienced an exponential increase in demand both regionally and nationally. Using dance as a vehicle for positive change, our vision is to empower learning-disabled individuals through inclusive dance.

All activity is led by a Dance Leader with learning disabilities supported by a professionally trained Dance Artist. Using a co-production model, DanceSyndrome delivers weekly community workshops and training for the core company. On demand the dancers regularly engage in performances, training, university seminars, conferences and we are developing and piloting a social replication model.

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Contact: Katie Whitehead

Tel: 07782 551004

Email: info@divinedays.co.uk

Web: www.divinedays.co.uk

ABOUT US

Divine Days Community CIC

Divine Days Community CIC delivers a programme of services and provision for adults with additional needs; children with additional needs and complex needs; the elderly; the isolated; and those managing long-term mental and physical health conditions. Our provision is centred around bringing people together through a variety of programmes and creative activity programmes focused on connectivity, inclusivity, and rehabilitation.

Gateway Support

Gateway Support is partnership between Divine Days Community CIC and An Inclusive Future CIC (AIF CIC) providing an urgent and essential service for individuals and families across the West Lancashire area with a child/children with an additional need or disability, as well as those who are managing long term health conditions or poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gateway Support provides an information, advice, guidance, and befriending service to ensure people with disabilities can access pastoral and professional services and support in an accessible, person-centred, and meaningful manner during and after the COVID – 19 pandemic.

Legacy Project

The Legacy Project is our Supported Internship initiative funded by Well Skelmersdale and West Lancashire CCG. Divine Days CIC works with local businesses, schools, and colleges to deliver a supported internship programme for young adults with additional needs, learning disabilities and/ or physical disabilities who live and learn in West Lancashire and the surrounding area.

Man-archy

Man-Archy is our men’s mental health provision, using talking therapies, support groups, one-to-one sessions, and a befriending service for men living in West Lancashire. This project is funded via Well Skelmersdale and West Lancashire CCG delivering a person centred, local offer of crisis intervention and prevention for men.

Community Connections

Our Community Connections sessions offer specialised activities for the elderly, people with poor mental health or dementia, people that have been isolated and those managing long term health conditions. Community Connections provides a safe environment run by qualified practitioners to support members of our community to reconnect and find purpose and meaning on their road to recovery.

Dance for All

Divine Days inclusive dance activities and classes for people of all ages with additional needs. Our teachers and practitioners have years of experience, as well as being qualified and trained in working with children and adults with additional needs, learning disabilities and complex needs. Our award-winning Dancers have performed all over the country raising awareness of inclusion and acceptance.

Our Dance classes include:

• Diddi Tots – Tap, ballet, and disco classes for babies and toddlers with additional needs.
• Diddi Divine – Therapeutic and contemporary dance classes for infants and juniors with additional needs.
• Diddi Divas – Tap, ballet, musical theatre, and street dance classes for children with additional needs.
• Divine Dance – Contemporary, inclusive dance classes for adults with additional needs.

We work with mainstream organisations to help them develop and improve their inclusive practice and how to become disability confident.

We deliver a variety of training programmes for schools and businesses including antibullying and disability awareness.

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36 Briercliffe Road
Burnley
BB10 1 XB

Contact: Ibrar Syed

Tel: 07545 261780

Email: contact@ehabits.org.uk

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.

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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

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Office 27
Burnley, Pendle & Rossendale CVS
The CVS Centre
62-64 Yorkshire Street
Burnley
BB11 3BT

Contact: Zed Ali

Email: equalitiesandjustice@gmail.com

Web: www.lancashireequalities.org.uk

About Us

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Vickers Ind Estate
Mellishaw Lane
Morecambe
Lancashire
LA3 3FB

Contact: Phil Crossley

Tel: (01524) 426622

Email: office@furniturematters.org.uk

Web: www.furniturematters.co.uk

About Us

Furniture Matters is a local re-use and recycle charity who’s aim is to provide quality low cost furniture and other household goods to local people in need in the community; to reduce the amount of furniture,electrical items and other household goods that end up in landfill and to provide quality volunteering and training opportunities for local people, aiming to increase employment prospects for some of these people.

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Gawthorpe Hall
Burnley Road
Padiham
BB12 8UA

Contact: Charlotte Steels

Tel: 01282 773963

Email: info@gawthorpetextiles.org.uk

Web: www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk

ABOUT US

Chaired by Lord Shuttleworth, we are an independent charity that uses its extensive, nationally significant collection of textiles and craft items to inspire and educate. Based at Gawthorpe Hall, we provide access to the collections via public exhibitions, study visits for students, researchers and specialist groups, as well as school visits, artist collaborations and commissions, workshops, demonstrations, talks and gallery tours. We deliver community outreach to support the wellbeing and skills development of local residents in Burnley through a textile studio within Valley Street Community Centre.

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We create a range of gifts and homewares utilising designs from the collection to support income generation for our charitable activities.

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Contact: Peter Metcalf

Email: mail@gift92.com

Web: www.gift92.com

About Us

Gift92 helps those in real need to build a stable home. We help people with limited finance and receiving state benefits to furnish a property. The charity has been doing this since 1992.

Many of those we help have moved into an empty property and do not have the funds to furnish it. We supply the essential furniture and household items to help them and their family create a home. We collaborate with several local agencies and charities to enhance the household items clients receive through our service.

Our work is supported by generous members of the public who donate usable furniture and household items, we are always in need of more due to demand. The furniture collected has enabled us to help over 750 people in 2018.

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272-274 Central Dr
Blackpool
FY1 5JB

Contact: Christine Phillips

Tel: 07704 031100

Email: hisprovision4blackpool@yahoo.co.uk

About Us

His Provision was born out of a local church soup kitchen/food pantry and registered with companies house in June 2013. Initially operating from the church premises and a small rented shop we were blessed when Green Pastures purchased our multi purpose premises for us in January 2015. The new centre has allowed us to offer supported accommodation to four men, plus move on accommodation for a further two clients. We also host a community hub, free family meal, volunteering opportunities, community café and training centre, and also houses our food pantry.

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Ormskirk Civic Hall
Southport Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 1LN

Contact: Sheila Byrne

Tel: 07903 381874

Web: www.hopest.org.uk

Email: letstalk@hopest.org.uk

About Us

Hope Street is a mental health organisation run by qualified professionals with lived experience.

We are a trauma-informed and person-centred service that provides support for individuals and families when they are at their most vulnerable.

Our services include:

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Contact: Karen Martyniuk

Tel: 07985 102245

Email: infinitewomencic@gmail.com

About Us

Our mission at Infinite Women is for Women to Empower Women to create stronger communities and build a better, brighter future for all. Empowerment of Women is at the heart of all that we do. We host monthly sessions, with a speaker and time for refreshments and socializing. We have a different theme each month, with topics linked to Holistic Health, Holistic Living, Sustainability and Fun. We aim to have a variety of settings/venues, with options for day and evening sessions to enable women to access when working different hours. We plan to deliver additional sessions, activities, events and conferences as we progress and develop.

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The Centre
49 Whitby Avenue
Ingol 
Preston
PR2 3YP

Contact: Denise Hartley MBE

Tel: (01772) 760760

Email: denise.hartley[at]intact-preston.org.uk

Web: www.intact-preston.org.uk

About Us

The Centre

As part of our continued service and commitment to our local community, the rooms and facilities are available for a wide variety of needs. With our range of multi-purpose spaces and multi-agency partnership working Intact aim to meet all your requirements big or small.

Intact has much to offer to the local community with many facilities available. The community hall and kitchen, therapy room, computer suite and training room can be hired for a wide variety of activities or events.

The Intact Centre has easy wheelchair access and toilet facilities with a baby changing area. Car parking is available at the front of the building and an induction loop system is available in the Community Hall and Training Room.

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Suite 412
Daisyfield Business Centre
Appleby Street
Blackburn
BB1 3BL

Contact: Naz Zaman

Tel: (01254) 392974

Email: office@lancashirebmenetwork.org.uk

Web: www.lancashirebmenetwork.org.uk

About Us

Lancashire BME Network (LBN) is a recently formed entity, resulting from the merging of Lancashire Women’s Network (LWN) and Lancashire BME Pact (Pact) in 2014.

Having worked closely over their respective histories on a number of programmes and initiatives, the boards and members of each felt it appropriate to formally merge the two bodies in recognition of their complementary natures and common goals to support local marginalised communities. This also allows for better use to be made of existing resources in face of significantly increasing demand from both local communities and referral agencies.

LWN were formerly known as Lancashire Wide Network for Minority Ethnic Women and were established in 1996 as a result of Fair Play seminars looking at poor levels of economic activity amongst BME women. The Pact set up in 2003 after identifying a need amongst BME groups and organisations for specialist capacity building support. LWN were the only organisation in Pennine Lancashire to support BME women in a ‘joined up’ service and address the holistic wellbeing of each woman it engaged with. The Pact were a well-respected representative body, with a track record of supporting infrastructure and BME groups around a number of thematic issues and needs.

Having collaborated on various projects and programmes throughout their respective histories, the Boards and Members of LWN and Pact felt it appropriate to merge the two entities to better achieve their shared goals of supporting BME communities:

both had a strong emphasis on user involvement;

the boards of both were comprised of current and ex service users, as well as other key political, social, and economic stakeholders;

both delivered community based learning activities supporting the development of BME communities.

The newly formed body is continuing and building on these shared successes, but is now able to make better use of existing resources through a more integrated management and strategic intervention structure in empowering marginalised BME communities. The merger has also resulted in a widening of our remit and LBN is now able to work with all genders.

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21-23 Blackburn Road
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 1HF

Contact: Amber Wells

Tel: 0300 330 1354

Email: TalkToUs@lancashirewomen.org

Web: lancashirewomen.org 

ABOUT US

Lancashire Women is a leading charity for women and girls in Lancashire with over 8500 women accessing their services over the past year and 31 active volunteers supporting delivery of their services. Their vision is where all women and girls in Lancashire are valued and treated as equals. Lancashire Women empower women and girls to be able to transform their lives by bringing them together to: find their voice, share experiences and understanding, develop their knowledge and skills and challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about them… so that they can have choices in becoming the individuals they want to be.

Through their network of female only centres, located across the county, they can help Lancashire Women:

• Improve mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Get advice on managing money, benefits and debt
• Improve skills, knowledge and gain employment
• Meet others and build friendships
• Life safer, happier and more positive lives

“My life has turned around because of the support I’ve received. I feel that a light bulb has been turned on.”

To contact Lancashire Women call 0300 330 1354, email TalkToUs@lancashirewomen.org or visit www.lancashirewomen.org to find your nearest centre.

Selnet’s Enterprise in Society Awards:

In 2018, Lancashire Women were named Lancashire’s Social Enterprise of the Year, and Sarah Harrison was also awarded the title of Volunteer of the Year. Lancashire Women then won the Large Social Enterprise category in 2019!

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Contact: Annie Wynn

Web: www.letsgrowpreston.org

Email: letsgrowpreston@gmail.com

About Us

We are a network of community gardens and friends of open spaces covering the whole PR postcode. We provide bulk buying discounts and a monthly network meeting for the 34 members to attend and share their experiences and their ideas. We loan tools and equipment. We help communities to improve their environment. We provide training in horticulture so that communities and individuals can grow their own food and plants.

We have 4 sites from where we promote physical and mental wellbeing through volunteering in horticulture. Following the principles of social therapy in horticulture, we build esteem and confidence.

Our volunteers are diverse. The youngest is 14 and the older is 86. We have SEN groups and individuals, retired people and people who are seeking employment as well as people on long term sick or with disabilities preventing them from working.

We create surplus by delivering training, facilitiating projects and selling plants.

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193 Bolton Road
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 3GE

Contact: Kasira Ahmed 

Tel: 01254 265163

Web: www.newground.co.uk

Email: kasira.ahmed@newground.co.uk 

ABOUT US

Newground CIC is an exciting social enterprise delivering professional services in a competitive marketplace. We deliver services in community support and training, employment, environment and health & safety compliance, flood resilience, landscape architecture and grounds maintenance.

Instead of our profits going to shareholders, they are donated to the charity Newground Together and distributed in the form of grants to environmental and community projects, so by choosing Newground, our customers are helping to drive positive social and environmental change.

Newground is accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 ensuring we deliver quality services in a safe and sustainable way. Newground CIC is the wholly owned subsidiary of the charity Newground Together, a member of the Together Housing Group, a leading provider of quality affordable and modern homes for rent across the North of England.

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Contact: Karen Livesey

Tel: 07713 129242

Email: karen@no-whispers.co.uk

Web: www.no-whispers.co.uk

ABOUT US

Keeping our children and young people safe.

“No Whispers” Community Interest Company delivers training & awareness in child sexual and criminal exploitation to prevent abuse, offer support and enhance contextual safeguarding.

Training sessions are suitable for professionals, volunteers, and members of the community. Training is interactive, informative, and impactful.

For further information contact Karen Livesey at “No Whispers”

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St Mary’s Church
116 Manchester Road
Nelson
BB9 7HD

Contact: Mark Clegg

Tel: 01282 452400

Email: info@furniturerecycling.org.uk

Web: www.furniturerecycling.org.uk
 

About Us

Open Door Furniture Recycling is YOUR community based furniture scheme which has been set up on a not for profit basis to provide:

• Basic furniture, household goods and domestic appliances for disadvantaged people living within Burnley and Pendle who are excluded from buying these items through traditional outlets.
• A real work experience with vocational training towards a recognised qualification that will help the long-term unemployed secure worthwhile jobs.
• An opportunity to reduce the volume of waste, re-useable furniture and domestic appliances, going to land fill sites.

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Phab Office:
Summit House, 50 Wandle Road,
Croydon, Surrey,
CR0 1DF

Contact: Dawn Vickers

Web: www.phab.org.uk

Email: info@phab.org.uk

About Us

Phab supports a network of around 120 inclusive, accessible clubs in all age ranges, offering activities which all members (disabled and non-disabled) can share and enjoy together. Phab runs the Integrated Living Experiences and Skills for Independence residential projects at fully accessible activity centres in Cumbria and the South East. Phab organises conferences and forums across the regions, with workshops, training, advice and group discussions.

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10-12 Oakham Court
Preston
PR1 3XP

Contact: Valerie Wise

Tel: 01772 201601

Email: enquiries@pdvs.org.uk

Web: www.pdvs.org.uk

ABOUT US

Preston Domestic Violence Services is the first organisation in Preston which exists solely to support adults and children experiencing (or having experienced) Domestic Violence.

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25-27 Victoria Street
Morecambe
LA4 4AE

Contact: Nick Smith

Tel: 07974 383784

Email: queensmarketmorecambe@gmail.com

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.

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Contact: Martin Needham

Tel: 01254 720740

Email: office@rainbowyouthcentre.com

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.

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The Rainbow Youth Centre have an online shop selling various items to help raise funds for the centre.

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Recycling Lives Centre
Essex Street
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 1QE

Contact: David Allen

Tel: (01772) 665940

Email: contact@recyclinglives.com

Web: www.recyclinglives.org

About Us

The Recycling Lives charity acts as a safety net for vulnerable and marginalised people. We offer accommodation, education, training and work experience to homeless and long-term unemployed individuals, with the aim of helping them back into full-time work and finding them a place to call their own.

Our charity work is supported by the successful commercial activities of Recycling Lives Ltd, a Queen’s Award-winning recycler and waste management solutions provider.

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Contact: Donna Rowe-Green

Tel: 07880 348597

Email: rosemaryandtime01@gmail.com

Web: www.rosemaryandtimecic.org

ABOUT US

Rosemary and Time CIC delivers gardening related activity workshops, training courses and ongoing projects aimed at supporting both geographical communities and communities of interest. Our main focus has been people living with dementia and their carers, and those living in care homes and the activity co-ordinators that support them.

WAYS TO TRADE WITH THIS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE 

This social enterprise grows plants to sell at local events and farmer’s markets, creates wildlife habitats, including bird boxes, bug hotels and hedgehog homes for sale. They supply care homes with subsidised priced activity sessions and provide training for those wishing to learn more about gardening, they can also provide bespoke consultancy and training to organisations wishing to develop the skills of their staff.

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14 Church Road
Bamber Bridge
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 3BQ

Contact: Kate Eastwood and Mandy Foster

Tel: 07510 269636 or 07947 715123

Web: www.shapelancashire.co.uk

Email: kate.eastwood@shapelancashire.co.uk

About Us

Shape Lancashire Community Interest Company is now in its 4^th year of delivering Projects in disadvantaged communities and giving people opportunities to engage, develop and grow. Our Projects are very varied and originally SHAPE was an acronym for Sports, Health & Well Being, Arts, People/Projects, Environmental and Employment – all were projects we had much experience in delivering in previous roles working in the Social Housing sector in the Community Development Team. Mandy worked in Housing for over 30 years and Kate for 10 years.

We have completed all those types of projects, and more, over the past four years working all over Lancashire and parts of Greater Manchester; Preston, South Ribble, Pendle, Colne, Blackburn, Bury, Bolton, Chorley, Lancaster, Morecambe, Blackpool.

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Contact: Fiona Redding

Web: www.shine-coaching.com

Email: enquiries@shine-coaching.com

About Us

Shine Coaching is a Community Interest Company (CIC) that offers life coaching sessions to men in Lancashire over the age of 18 who experience anger issues.  We offer sessions over the phone to our clients, making it more accessible, whilst also reducing travelling costs for our clients.  As a CIC with limited funds, we can then spend more funding on client contact time, maximizing the resources we can devote to those who need it.  We have built relationships with community agencies who have direct and indirect (through partners, for example) contact with men.  We have received referrals through agencies but also direct referrals from men themselves.  Coaching works with where the person is now and where they would like to be.  We work with men to identify their goals around reducing anger, and often, their other identified goals cascade into reducing their anger too.  As an average, we offer between 6-8 sessions, but more can be negotiated. This flexibility is important to us.  We offer our sessions over the phone for various reasons; we know that men are more likely to access treatment if it’s easier to do so; life coaching as a profession has been the pioneer in over the phone work; to cut down on overheads; accessible and easy to set sessions and means we can reach people we wouldn’t usually be able to, including those who identify as agoraphobic.

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Centenary Court
Croft Street
Burnley
Lancashire
BB11 2ED

Contact: Karen Ainsworth

Tel: (01282) 436989

Email: info@smile-ltd.co.uk

Web: www.smilemediation.co.uk

About Us

Smile Mediation is celebrating 21 years delivering mediation interventions, conflict coaching and skills training qualifications within the social housing, corporate and community sector. Smile delivers unique community projects that utilise mediation skills and techniques; in this way Smile empowers grass roots groups to develop better ways of communicating, upskilling and building capacity across neighbourhoods to reduce the distressing impact of destructive conflict.

Our services have developed to meet the needs of our partners, we deliver intra-family mediation to people in recovery from substance misuse, troubled families, and our unique hate crime programme working with offenders. Smile regularly facilitates large community and workplace conflicts involving multiple parties.

Every mediation intervention is different because the individuals involved in the dispute bring their own unique perspective, emotional responses and historic experience. Smile delivers a person-centred mediation service and this is embedded in our College of Mediators accredited mediation skills training. Our mediators are supported through ongoing CPD and supervision to ensure high quality standards of competence and practice.

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Contact: Lucy Hamlin

Tel: 01254 457026

Email: info@spring-projects.co.uk

Web: www.spring-projects.co.uk

About Us

Spring into Action is a provider of services for people with disabilities and/or specialist needs, offering developmental opportunities for children, young people and adults to help them to fulfill their potential. Working in partnership with other service providers in Lancashire, we aim to enable each individual to achieve their capacity for independence, self awareness and self determination.

Please visit Our Projects page to find out more about our current and future projects.

Over the past 2 years, we have been running Meet N Match – a friendship and dating agency for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism, providing social events, relationship training and an exclusive matching service, engaging with around 500 people across the North West.

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Business Development Centre
Suite 21 – Eanam Wharf
Blackburn
BB1 5BL

Tel: 01254 503200

Contact: Angela Allen

Email: office@springnorth.org.uk

Web: www.springnorth.org.uk

ABOUT US

OUR VISION

To develop innovative solutions to create a positive impact on the lives of children, young people, families and the communities in which they live whilst challenging inequality and disadvantage – to enable them to meet their full potential.

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Eleventh Street
Trafford Park
Manchester
M17 1JF

Contact: David Flanagan

Tel: 0161 848 9173

Web: www.stantonyscentre.org.uk

Email: secretary@stantonyscentre.org.uk

About Us

St Antony’s Centre provides front line Information, Advice and Guidance services to various community & faith groups, charities and employers across the North West. In addition, the centre is accredited training provider and currently holds contracts across the region to deliver predominantly Maths, English and ICT courses across a number of community venues, employers and partner locations. The face-to-face provision is complimented by an extensive range of distance learning CPD and vocational qualifications.

As well as the outreach provision St Antony’s boasts permanent bases in Manchester, Accrington and Blackpool from which services are delivered in partnership with others. The Head Office facilities in Trafford Park Manchester also provides Conference, meeting and exhibition space.

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South Place
1 Meeting House Lane
Lancaster
LA1 1TQ

Contact: Paul Ireland

Tel: 01524 874246

Email: paul@strawberryfieldstraining.org.uk 

Web: www.strawberryfieldscic.co.uk

ABOUT US

At SFT we provide alternative education, training, aftercare and resettlement support to those engaged in the criminal justice system, alcohol & drug recovery services, and to vulnerable adults or young people struggling to cope in mainstream environments.

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Contact: Caroline Sagar

Email: hello@180project.co.uk

Web: www.180project.co.uk

About Us

The 180 Project is a community recovery programme in Lancashire and is one of the first of its kind in the UK. It is unique, effective and unlike anything else for those recovering from addiction problems. We use sport [an adapted CrossFit programme] combined with education, mentoring and peer support to achieve total wellness so participants are physically, emotionally and mentally well and socially connected.

180 gives focus and hope to offenders in the system and those recovering from addiction. It also has the potential to reach those people who are at risk of falling into this cycle as early as possible. Through this we aim to break the cycle of substance abuse, crime and prison to help rebuild lives. The long term goal is to impact positively on criminal re-offense rates, improve local communities and to assist individuals in gaining education, volunteer and employment opportunities.

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t/a The Football League Trust
Edward VII Quay
Navigation Way
Preston
PR2 2Y

Contact: Jules Ollerton

Tel: (01772) 325960

Email: jollerton{at}fltrust.co.uk

Web: www.fltrust.co.uk

ABOUT US

The Football League Trust is a national charity that uses the power of football to change people’s lives.

The FLT unites the inspirational work delivered across England and Wales by the dedicated network of community trusts associated to the 72 Football League clubs. Last year we engaged with over 1.5million people using the power of football to improve health, inspire education, reduce crime, increase participation and tackle many difficult social issues like drug abuse and homelessness. The Trust tackles society’s greater goals by inspiring people through powerful projects built upon a foundation of our four key themes;- sport, education, inclusion and health.

Each of the 72 Football League Clubs (Championship, League 1, League 2) has its own community trust. The charities have a combined annual turnover of over £44 million, and 2,500 members of staff, including teachers, coaches and professional health workers. Based in the heart of their communities ours trusts use the magnetism their club badge to connect with people,

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The Women and Enterprise Hub
6-0-5 Alston House
White Cross
South Road, Lancaster
LA1 4XQ

Contact: Jane Binnion

Tel: 01524 383846

Email: admin@thegrowingclub.co.uk

Web: www.thegrowingclub.co.uk

About Us

After successfully launching a 12 month business growth programme in January 2016, to bridge the gap in business education for women running micro-businesses, we then launched the CIC to provide enterprise and employment training and support for women in the community who are unemployed, unwaged, or wanting to make a change.

The Growing Club provides pre-startup, start-up and business growth courses, all designed to meet the needs of women, as well as a weekly drop-in and monthly digital skills workshops.

Because “when women thrive all of society benefits and succeeding generations are given a better start in life” – Kofi Annan

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11 Irwell Terrace
Bacup
OL13 9AW

Contact: Pauline Ellison

Tel: 01706 870939

Email: office@themagdaleneproject.co.uk

Web: www.themagdaleneproject.co.uk

About Us

The Magdalene Project is a counselling, support and training agency, as a charity we offer counselling / therapy for a number of needs, bereavement etc. Our main area of expertise being sexual trauma in whatever form that takes.

We work with children, young people and adults male and female, also families. This is usually on a one to one basis for as long as this is deemed necessary for the client’s recovery.

We also facilitate training on subjects befitting the work here; this is open to outside agencies both statutory and voluntary.

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Centaur House
Units 1 – 6
Gardiners Place
Skelmersdale, Lancashire
WN8 9SP

Contact: Paula Gamester

Tel: 01695 550 772

Web: www.the-sewing-rooms.co.uk

About Us

The Sewing Rooms social enterprise is a business that trades to tackle social problems. Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities we work with, as well as improve peoples’ life chances. We do this through bespoke training workshops and a manufacturing department that makes soft furnishings, accessories and bespoke upholstery for private and corporate clients.

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Unit 1 Rose Hill Estate
Sough Road
Darwen
BB3 2HA

Contact: James Coulthard

Tel: 01254 846200

Email: jim@travelassist.org

Web: travelassist.org

ABOUT US

As a not for profit, social enterprise, Travel Assist has designed the business model on the foundation of their two major social objectives, which are;

(1). Making transport accessible for those who experience difficulties reaching mainstream transport.

(2). Creating and sustaining long term employment opportunities.

From the very start, Travel Assist has based all business decisions on the ethics of our social objectives, which is to provide opportunities, equality and respect. However, as the business has developed, Travel Assist has recognised that it has a responsibility to look at the impact the work carried out by the organization has on the environment. Therefore, a third social objective has been added:

(3). Sustaining responsible use of energy to minimalise the impact on the environment.

Ways to trade with this social enterprise

We exist to primarily provide affordable, accessible transport for people who experience difficulties accessing mainstream transport

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