- A Solution Within
Contact: Hannah Brownhill
Tel: 07794 922710
Email: asolutionwithin@gmail.com
About UsA Solution Within Community Interest Company has an aim to equip young people with the necessary tools to support positive self-esteem and wellbeing. This is achieved through school workshops, assemblies, targeted programmes and teacher training.
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Continue reading → - ACT Community Partnership CIC
Contact: David FlanaganTel: 07847 521291
Email: contact@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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Continue reading → - Active Lancashire
Office 3-4, Farington House
Lancashire Business Park
Leyland
Lancashire
PR26 6TW
Contact: Darren WrightTel: 01772 299830
Email: contact@activelancashire.org.ukWeb: www.activelancashire.org.uk
ABOUT US
Active Lancashire is the strategic lead for Sport and Physical Activity in Lancashire. We connect with like-minded local organisations and individuals to help bring about active lifestyles. Nationally we are one of the many Sport England-led Active Partnerships that drive a sports delivery system across the country.
We believe that sport and physical activity have the power to influence behaviours and develop skills which can have a broader, positive impact on people’s lives.
Our work in leading and facilitating effective partnerships across the county from key influential decision makers, through to community grass roots organisations aims to encourage Lancashire residents to engage in sport and physical activity and lead a happy, more prosperous life.
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Continue reading → - Anteros Community
Unit 6 Greetby Place
Skelmersdale
WN8 9UL
Contact: James HoyTel: 07964 826017
Email: admin@anteroscommunity.co.ukWeb: www.anteroscommunity.co.uk
ABOUT USAnteros Community provides music education and support for professionals and enthusiasts within the music community and music industry.
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Continue reading → - Barks & Recreation
Contact: Stephen Brown
Email: info@barksandrec.co.uk
About Us
Barks & Recreation are a Preston organisation that supports people who have a learning disability or mental health condition to walk dogs – and share the profits with the people we support.
We walk the dogs of people who are struggling to care for their own dogs due to a physical health condition or disability, and provide additional services with the aim of keeping the dog and its owner together – preventing social isolation.
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Continue reading → - Beanstalk Business Support CIC
Contact: Kerry Stevens
Tel: 07720 779809
Email: kerry@beanstalkbusiness.co.ukWeb: www.beanstalkbusiness.co.uk
ABOUT US
Beanstalk Business Support CIC is passionate about helping businesses become stronger, sustainable, and profitable. We offer business support and administration services to entrepreneurs, start-ups, not-for-profits, and SMEs. We recognise that small businesses are the backbone of local communities; they provide character and individuality that reflect a town’s personality. Business owners and employees usually live and work within their communities. Building successful businesses create a thriving local economy with local jobs and strong community bonds.
Simultaneously, we provide employment and work experience opportunities, with job coaching and pastoral support for people looking for employment. We invest all profits towards our employment programmes. We develop workshops, courses, and tutorials that leave people empowered by knowledge, tools, and newfound confidence, ready to take those first steps towards a meaningful career. Returning to work is intimidating, so we build a person-centric training strategy where individuals become accustomed to the world of work in a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment.
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Continue reading → - Blackburn Rovers Community Trust
Darwen End, Ewood Park
Nuttall Street
Blackburn
BB2 4JFContact: Deborah Blades
Tel: 01254 508256
Email: deborah.blades@brfctrust.co.ukWeb: 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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Continue reading → - Brew Me Sunshine
12 Victoria Street
Morecambe
LA4 4AHContact: 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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Continue reading → - Change Grow Live
CGL HQ – Towerpoint
44 North Road
Brighton
BN1 1YRContact: Katie Bebbington
Email: katie.bebbington@cgl.org.uk 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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Continue reading → - Chapter3 Enterprise CIC
178 Holmfield Road
Blackpool
FY2 9PUContact: 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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Continue reading → - Child Action Northwest
Whalley Road
Wilpshire
Blackburn
BB1 9LLContact: Sue Cotton
Tel: 01254 244716
Email: info@canw.org.ukWebsite: 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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Continue reading → - Communicate SLT CIC
Manse House
49 Hardhorn Road
Poulton-le-Fylde
Blackpool
FY6 7SR
Contact: Joanne BurrTel: 01253 462123
Email: office@communicate-slt.org.ukWeb: www.communicate-slt.org.uk
About Us2017 will mark Communicate’s 6 year anniversary of delivering high quality, needs led and effective services within the North West. Whilst celebrating the achievements of the last six years, we will take the opportunity to review our mission, vision and values as a foundation for the future. We aim to establish a 5 year strategic plan based on the key drivers of Sustainability, Team, Leadership and High Quality to support Communicate’s continued growth and development. We are looking forward to continuing working in partnership to maximise life chances by enabling effective Speech, Language and Communication.
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Continue reading → - Community Solutions North West
Elmfield Hall
Gatty Park
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 4AA
Contact: Deborah ClarkTel: 01254 460080
Email: info@csnw.co.ukWeb: 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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Continue reading → - Creativity Works Preston
33 Shepherd Street
Preston
PR1 3UE
Contact: Steve EganTel: 07946 612666
Email: steve@creativityworkspreston.org.uk
Web: www.creativityworkspreston.org.uk
ABOUT US
The Creativity Works Preston Production Centre is based upon the Danish Production school model.
CWP offers an alternative form of education to people of all ages who need or prefer to learn in a different way to the traditional education system that is predominantly academically based to one that is project-oriented and provides individualistic tuition. The crux of the learning environment and pedagogy is learning through doing; practical work and the solving of tasks in a working community aimed a real production and marketing of goods and services. We offer bespoke training courses in Hair & Beauty, Food & Nutrition, Teaching & learning, Media and Music, Sport and maths & English.
We offer a pre 16 programme to referral agencies such as Schools, Lancashire County Council Missing Education team, Youth Offending team and any agency responsible for young people aged 14-16, with places available for up to 40 young people. We offer a post 16 Programme with places available for up to 50, students.
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Continue reading → - DanceSyndrome
c/o Pathways Associates
Suite 2, Waterside
St James Court West
Accrington
BB5 1NA
Contact: Julie NicholsonEmail: info@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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Continue reading → - Divine Days Community CIC
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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Continue reading → - Enterprising Habits Ltd
36 Briercliffe Road
Burnley
BB10 1 XBContact: Ibrar Syed
Tel: 07545 261780
Email: contact@ehabits.org.ukWeb: 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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Continue reading → - Freckle Creative
Contact: David Scholes
Tel: 07712 591890
Email: info@frecklecreate.co.uk
About Us
Freckle is a marketing consultancy, focused on support for the 3rd sector, in all areas of business development, promotion, creative delivery and marketing.
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Continue reading → - Groundwork Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside
Blackpool office:
The Enterprise Centre
Lytham Road
Blackpool
FY4 1EW
Contact: Andrew DarronTel: (01942) 821444
Email: clm@groundwork.org.uk
About UsGroundwork Cheshire Lancashire & Merseyside is both a charitable trust and a social enterprise that has been working to build more sustainable communities across Cheshire and Lancashire since 1985 and Merseyside since 2012. We do this by helping people and organisations to create better neighbourhoods, to build their skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.
Our vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper.
By this we mean communities where people can work if they want to, where people are not living in fear of crime, where young people are valued and can realise their potential, where people are healthy and can afford to make healthy choices, where neighbourhoods are places where people want to live, and where communities – be they neighbourhoods or business communities – are more resilient.
In order to manage our activities in a way that delivers against our vision we have set 6 core objectives which we feel are key components of a sustainable community. All of our work will contribute to at least one of these objectives.
- We will help communities to become more active and resilient
- We will help to build greener, safer, stronger neighbourhoods
- We will help young people realise their potential
- We will help those furthest from the labour market to find work
- We will promote improved health and wellbeing
- We will reduce carbon emissions and tackle the impacts of climate change
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Continue reading → - Growing Resilience CIC
Office 5, The Boulevard Centre
45 Railway Road
Blackburn
BB1 1EZContact: Richard Wallwork
Tel: 07786 261 485
Email: richard@growingresilience.co.ukWeb: www.growingresilience.co.uk
ABOUT US
Growing Resilience is a self-awareness course that considers encountering conflict and stress in everyday life, as a certain inevitability. The programme shows the participants how to grow a mental health toolkit to become more resilient and be better able to cope with times of chaos and deal with conflict pro-actively, focussing on a positive future situation.
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Continue reading → - His Provision CIC
272-274 Central Dr
Blackpool
FY1 5JBContact: Christine Phillips
Tel: 07704 031100
Email: hisprovision4blackpool@yahoo.co.uk
About UsHis 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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Continue reading → - Hope Street
Ormskirk Civic Hall
Southport Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 1LNContact: Sheila Byrne
Tel: 07903 381874
Web: www.hopest.org.uk
Email: letstalk@hopest.org.uk
About UsHope 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:
1:1 coaching music meditation employability exercise mental health nurses holistic therapies guest speakers workshops relationships with food arts and crafts yoga courses menopause confidence building
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Continue reading → - IMO Charity
Unit 11, Business Development Centre
Eanam Wharf
Blackburn
BB1 5BL
Contact: Stephen JonesTel: 07973 860717
Email: info@imocharity.org
Web: www.imocharity.org
ABOUT US
A grassroots charity based in the heart of Blackburn. We have been operating since 2006 and work with young and old people in supporting them on various health & wellbeing, education & employability and Sports & Development.
Our work got recognised in 2016 by her Majesty and we were awarded the prestigious Queens Award for Voluntary Services.
Our strength is in engaging with BAME, Assulym and Refugee community and we as an organisation are big in engaging and supporting all.
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Continue reading → - Integrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd
112-116 Tulketh Brow
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 2SJ
Contact: Peter GreenTel: (01772) 333800
Email: enquiries@integratepreston.org.ukWeb: www.integratepreston.org.uk
About UsIntegrate (Preston & Chorley) Ltd was established in 1983 to provide supported housing for individuals with Learning Difficulties. We continue to do this and also support individuals with Mental Health conditions, Physical Disabilities, Autism, Sensory Impairments and Dementia.
We have a long history in Social Enterprise and all of our Social Enterprises’s have been established to provide better opportunities in life, and the employment market, for people with disabilities & long term conditions. We offer placements related to wood recycling, horticulture and gardening, handyman services, decorating, retail and packaging.
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Continue reading → - Lancashire Careers Company CIC
Unit 1-2, Edward VII Quay
Navigation Way
Preston
PR2 2YFTel: 07470 136357
Email: enquiries@lancashirecareers.co.uk
Web: www.lancashirecareers.co.uk
About Us
Lancashire Careers Company CIC exists to ensure that professional, qualified, and registered career development is available to unemployed people throughout the region. Those providing career guidance are qualified to a minimum of Level 6 in the careers sector. We measure the impact of our intervention using evidence-based tools and psychometric testing (Morrisby and Outcomes Star).
While we work with anyone who is seeking career change or employment, we have a specific interest in working with Lancashire Care Leavers (18-25), veterans and 50+
We are specialist professionals who firmly believe that collaborating adds value to our purpose.
We are registered members of the Career Development Institute. We have the Armed Forces Covenant Bronze Award, and we are Disability Confident employers. All associates are cleared with Enhanced DBS and are on the update service. We are proud members of Social Enterprise UK.
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Continue reading → - Lancashire Women
21-23 Blackburn Road
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 1HF
Contact: Amber WellsTel: 0300 330 1354
Email: TalkToUs@lancashirewomen.orgWeb: 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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Continue reading → - Lets’ Grow Preston
Contact: Annie Wynn
Email: letsgrowpreston@gmail.com
About UsWe have 3 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 in individuals and we deliver workshops and activities in the community to promote community cohesion and resilience.
Established since 2011, we also support a network of community gardens and friends of open spaces covering the whole PR postcode. We provide bulk buying discounts to the members and a monthly network meeting for the 34 group members to attend, 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.
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.
In the last 12 months, individuals have donated over 3000 hours to Lets Grow Preston.
We generate a surplus income by delivering training, facilitating projects and selling plants.
We collect surplus food grown by local allotmenteers annually throughout the summer holidays in order to supplement the local food hubs with fresh produce, grown locally. Each year this equates to about 8000 meals over an 8 week period and sequesters 1 ton of carbon. Which is the same that a tree would sequester in its lifetime of between 40 and 100 years.
These are some of our accreditations;
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Continue reading → - Midstream (West Lancs) Ltd
2 Penrose Place
Skelmersdale
Lancashire
WN8 9PRContact: Anita Cooke
Tel: (01695) 555316
Email: anita.cooke[at]btconnect.comWeb: www.midstream.org.uk
About UsMidstream (West Lancs) Ltd, inaugurated in 1995 as a Registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee is a leading Social Enterprise. From a six and a half acre site and state of the art, purpose built accommodation in Skelmersdale, West Lancashire it provides vocational training and supported employment in a caring environment for young people and adults with learning difficulties. At the same time it creates business and trading opportunities with public sector, private sector and voluntary/community sector organisations offering a wide range of products and services.
Those who are most disadvantaged in the labour market have the opportunity to take part in ‘real live’ work activities in a choice of occupational areas including Horticulture, Woodwork, Business Administration, Retail, Hospitality & Catering. At the same time they are encouraged to work towards nationally recognised vocational qualifications ranging from basic entry level to NVQ level 2. Training and assessments are carried out by our own professional teaching staff. Health and Social Care needs are met by qualified health & social care practioners who give just the right level of support to ensure individuals are able to enjoy taking part in their daily work and training activities.
The whole focus of Midstream is to improve the quality of working lives of people who through no fault of their own are disadvantaged in the labour market and allowing them to make their contribution to the world of work.
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Continue reading → - Move 2 Change
Contact: Martin Sadler
Tel: 07545 839957
Email: martin@move2change.org.uk ABOUT US
Move 2 Change’s vision is “To inspire engagement with nature to support positive physical and mental well-being”
We deliver a range of programmes and activities to enable people to be active and safe in the outdoors, build confidence, improve fitness, develop positive wellbeing, and develop skills.
- Our Change Maker programme is run over 10 days with participants working with others to develop team work and communications skills leading to tackling the “Change Maker Challenge”. On the journey through the Change Maker programme partcipants get the opportunity to develop and put into practice skills in team work , communication, personal leadership and project management. Change Maker uses the great outdoors to provide an exciting , challenging and beautful backdrop for learning and development .
Our Fitwalk programme provides opportunities to get out walking in small groups, meet new people , develop skills in navigation and environmental awareness, and set personal fitness goals. - Our Moving 2 Make Teams programme is aimed at organisations looking for something different to support work team development. The Theoutdoor based experiences are bespoke in design for each circumstance, all involve a range of active, inclusive and fun challenges that will be co-designed to meet the goals of the organisation whilst building communities/teams within and across organisations.
- Move 2 Change also offer opportunities to try a range of outdoor and adventurous activities (for example rock climbing, caving, mountain biking, trail running) and develop skills in map reading and navigation.
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Continue reading → - Our Change Maker programme is run over 10 days with participants working with others to develop team work and communications skills leading to tackling the “Change Maker Challenge”. On the journey through the Change Maker programme partcipants get the opportunity to develop and put into practice skills in team work , communication, personal leadership and project management. Change Maker uses the great outdoors to provide an exciting , challenging and beautful backdrop for learning and development .
- New Era Enterprises (E.Lanc) Ltd
The CVS Centre
62/64 Yorkshire Street
Burnley
BB11 3BT
Contact: Jo WaleTel: 01282 435302
Email: newera@neweraburnley.co.uk
About UsNew Era Enterprises (E. Lancs) Ltd is a company limited by guarantee. It is a community business that promotes a wide range of community-based regeneration and economic development, primarily in and around Pennine Lancashire.
Although constituted as a business, its ethos is much more about improving the lives of local people than making money for itself.
Its aim is to provide a service which supports the growth of skills and networks so that people are able to initiate and participate in their own and their community’s development. This is achieved by working at a neighbourhood level within a vision of equal opportunity and sustainability.
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Continue reading → - Newground CIC
193 Bolton Road
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 3GE
Contact: Kasira AhmedTel: 01254 265163
Web: www.newground.co.ukEmail: 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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Continue reading → - No Whispers CIC
Contact: Karen LiveseyTel: 07713 129242
Email: karen@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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Continue reading → - Preston Domestic Violence Services
10-12 Oakham Court
Preston
PR1 3XP
Contact: Valerie WiseTel: 01772 201601
Email: enquiries@pdvs.org.ukWeb: 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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Continue reading → - Queens Market Morecambe CIC
25-27 Victoria Street
Morecambe
LA4 4AE
Contact: Nick SmithTel: 07974 383784
Email: queensmarketmorecambe@gmail.comWeb: 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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Continue reading → - Rainbow Youth Centre
Contact: Martin Needham
Tel: 01254 720740
Email: office@rainbowyouthcentre.comWeb: 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.
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Continue reading → - Rebuild with Hope Foundation
C/O Mclintocks LTD
46 Hamilton square
Birkenhead CH41 5ARContact: Louise Atherton
Tel: 07738 760039
Email: louise@rbwhfoundation.orgABOUT US
We are a newly formed organisation providing employment, training and support for individuals involved with the criminal justice system whilst on RoTL, community licence and post release.
We will provide real work opportunities through a recycling, repurposing and retail operation and in collaboration with partners embed relevant training and wrap around support linked to identified progression routes.
We have a number of employers in a variety of sectors across Lancashire and other parts of the North West who will employ individuals progressing through the Foundation.
View our Announcement leaflet for further information
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Continue reading → - Redmoor Communications CIC
Contact: Lucie Higham
Tel: 07747 061162
Email: redmoorcomms@gmail.comWeb: www.redmoorcommunications.co.uk
ABOUT US
Leading specialists in social media training.
Redmoor Communications is a community interest company specialising in providing public relations support and social media training for new and established social enterprises, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations. A not for profit social enterprise with social responsibility at the heart of all we do, Redmoor Communications offers clients a comprehensive support package. Our masterclasses in social media will leave you with a thorough understanding of how you can use traditional and digital media to grow your business. Based in Lancashire in the North West of England but with staff based across the UK, we have over 15 years’ experience at the cutting edge of both online and offline communications. We bring a knowledge and experience of social media that is difficult to match ensuring that you have the confidence to use social media without the need to spend lots of money of expensive consultants. If you think you might qualify for one of our free sessions give us a call on 07747 061162.
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Continue reading → - Shared Future CIC
28 Cromwell Grove
Manchester
M19 3GBContact: Jez Hall
Tel: 07963 706106
Email: info@sharedfuturecic.org.ukWebsite: www.sharedfuturecic.org.uk
About UsWe 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:
- Facilitating Citizen Juries and deliberative engagement
- Participatory Budgeting
- Community-led planning and community development
- Youth and community empowerment
- Community asset development and building management
- Ethical business and social responsibility
- Organisational change and strategy
- Social Impact reports
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Continue reading → - St. Antony’s Centre
Eleventh Street
Trafford Park
Manchester
M17 1JFContact: David Flanagan
Tel: 0161 848 9173
Web: www.stantonyscentre.org.uk
Email: secretary@stantonyscentre.org.uk
About UsSt 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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Continue reading → - Strawberry Fields Training CIC
South Place
1 Meeting House Lane
Lancaster
LA1 1TQ
Contact: Scot DavidsonTel: 01524 874246
Email: scot@strawberryfieldstraining.org.ukWeb: www.strawberryfieldscic.co.uk
ABOUT USStrawberry Fields exists to support and empower marginalised people to recognise and move towards developing their potential.
We have been supporting young people and adults for over nine years and continue to provide compassionate, client-centric, and innovative support packages for those in need.
At Strawberry Fields, we believe in working a particular way meeting clients ‘where they are at’, whatever their stage or starting point.
We are a small team of multi-skilled, highly qualified, and free-thinking individuals who are prepared to consistently challenge our own practice and our judgements or assumptions of others.
As a company, we are always evolving and we take pride in going the extra mile for the benefit of our clients.
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Continue reading → - The Football League (Community) Ltd
t/a The Football League Trust
Edward VII Quay
Navigation Way
Preston
PR2 2YContact: Jules Ollerton
Tel: (01772) 325960
Email: jollerton{at}fltrust.co.ukWeb: www.fltrust.co.uk
ABOUT USThe 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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Continue reading → - The Larder
50 Lancaster Road
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 1DDContact: Kay Johnson MBE
Tel: 07718 901813
Email: kay@larder.org.uk
Web: www.larder.org.uk
About Us
The Larder is a social enterprise in Preston. We promote food that’s healthy, local, seasonal and low waste. We work through a cafe and catering business, food academy and network of Lancashire farmers and producers.
The Larder aims to raise awareness and educate people about a range of food issues from food poverty to food waste, from sustainable catering practices to procurement. We develop and deliver courses, workshops and lectures to groups and individuals and offer a consultancy service to public and private organisations.
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Continue reading → - Travel Assist Services Ltd
Unit 1 Rose Hill Estate
Sough Road
Darwen
BB3 2HAContact: James Coulthard
Tel: 01254 846200
Email: jim@travelassist.orgWeb: 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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Continue reading → - U-Night Group
Contact: Sue Sharples
Tel: 07834 695606
Email: sueamberco@aol.com
About Us
The U-Night Group is a Community Interest Company run by and for people with a learning disability who live in Lancashire.
Our aim is to reduce isolation and loneliness, by providing opportunities for people to engage in meaningful activities, which lead to the formation of friendships and relationships. We do this by providing evening social and leisure events, training on sex and relationships and running a dating and mating agency called ‘MeetnMatch’.
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Continue reading → - Veterans in Communities
12 Bury Road
Haslingden
Rossendale
BB4 5PLContact: Liz Hamilton
Tel: 01706 833180
Email: lizhamilton@veteransincommunities.org
Web: www.veteransincommunities.org
ABOUT US
Veterans in Communities (VIC) supports serving and ex-services personnel and their families, and members of the emergency services who have experienced difficulties in transitioning back into the community. We offer a range of services including outdoor activities, support to access specialised services, outdoor activities, hands-on projects to benefit the community, SInging Group and Art Group.
Everything we do is focused on assisting our members to improve confidence, wellbeing in all its forms, achieving goals and being part of their local community.
Our building in Haslingden has rooms available as office space, therapy space, arts and crafts, and a large conference room with flexibility in its layout.
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Continue reading → - West Lancs Ark CIC
Ecumenical Centre
Northway
Skelmersdale
WN8 6LUContact: Janice Monaghan
Tel: 07826 656387
Other Contacts: Barry 07421 941324 / Sue (Armed Forces Champion) 07591 030205
Email: westlancsark@hotmail.co.uk
About UsWe work with all members of our community and have an open door policy. We help people with a wide variety of issues, inclusing debt, housing, employment, substance mis-use, training and education. We have computers available for job search and making benefit claims. We will assist with preparing CV’s, application forms. We also do referal to the Food Banks.
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Continue reading → - Wot Wud U Do CIC
Contact: Dave Clayton
Web: www.wotwududo.co.uk
Email: info@www.wotwududo.co.uk
About UsWe follow the principle of coproduction and collaboration to create and deliver health educational programmes in schools, colleges, care homes and pupil referral units. As we adapt to the latest climate, we specifically work with young people in local communities to tailor our foundations, using their knowledge and experience to adapt what we know and support them to create and deliver these programmes within the local vicinity.
These young people gain several life and employability skills, who we then refer to local employers. The students who receive the peer delivered the programme gain insights into coping with mental health, relationships, independence, and resilience from a lived experience point of view.
We work collaboratively with local authorities, NHS departments and community organizations who work alongside the peer led programme, offering professional support and advice, signposting, and raising awareness of their services and opportunities the young people and their families can access.
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Continue reading → - Youth Action
Unity House
49-51 Preston New Road
Blackburn
BB2 6AEContact: Amar Abbas
Tel: 01254 695847
Email: www.youthaction.org.uk/contact-us
ABOUT US
Youth Action is an award-winning youth charity, working across Lancashire for the last 19 years. We provide a range of services to the community for families and children and young people aged 5 to 24.
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