Blackburn Family Centre

The organisation has grown in response to the needs of the area andits families. On 16th. April 2009 the organisation became a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee and is run by a Board of Trustees comprising local people and service users.All of the Family Centre’s work focuses on education and personal development. Health is a major focus of our work and is targeted from babies to grannies. Throughout all of our programmes we target the development of social skills and the building of self-esteem and confidence - particularly valuable for some participants who experience arduous family circumstances and/or find dealing with formal agencies difficult.The Company's aims are to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Blackburn/Seafield and in particular children and their parents/families by advancing education, furthering health and providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation so that the condition of life of the aforementioned children and their parents/families may be improved.The Centre works primarily with families on low fixed income and we are able to offer them free Nursery places while they are making use of the services provided by the Centre.