Barnardo's Blackpool Project

The work of Barnardo’s focuses on the vital components that make-up a happy, healthy childhood. We think of these as ‘building blocks’. Lots of children in the UK are without one or more of these blocks and making sure that their needs are met is why Barnardo’s exists.

Green block
A Family
that can cope

Blue block
Emotional, physical
and mental health

purple block
Opportunities to learn

red block
Protection
from harm

Yellow block
A sense of belonging
in the community

pink block
A stake in society

The Blackpool Project is made up from five service areas:

  • Personal Support
  • Family Support (Parents Aged 19 and under)
  • Outreach & Leisure
  • VETS (Volunteering Education Training and Support)
  • Volunteering

Personal support team

The Personal Support Team offers services to parents/carers who are experiencing difficulties in managing their children’s behaviour. This may be manifested in terms of offending, behaviour at home,  in the local community or in relation to school attendance.  Referrals through the Youth Offending Team for parents of children aged 8 – 17 years or through self referral or other agencies for parents of children aged 5 – 13 years.

Family support (parents aged 19 and under)

Family Support team aims to work with teenage mothers (aged 19 and under) and their children who, although living independently, may need support. Workers help young parents develop into mutually supportive networks between themselves, offering advice, one-to-one support, providing assistance with accessing other services and training and facilitating groups for the young parents to provide a support network for each other.  

Outreach and leisure

Barnardo’s Outreach & Leisure Team  runs play and craft activities for children aged 5 – 17 years. The team also provides support, advice and training to enable people from local neighbourhoods to organise and run play activities with children and young people in their neighbourhood.

Volunteering

Volunteers play an integral role in supporting the work done with parents, young people and children at the project.

VETS (Volunteering Education Training and Support)

Support is offered to individuals aged 16 and over  to access volunteering,  education and training opportunities with local providers.

Opportunities for family learning to families resident in the Blackpool Children’s Centres’ South Locality, with a particular focus on male parents/carers and their children, and provide support to those families to access such opportunities.


Latest News

• The Outreach Leisure Team are presently running 9 activity groups for children & young people - offering access to arts & crafts, group games and sport during term time.  Please contact Ian Parr  for further details 01253 626480
The Outreach Leisure Team running play sessions and activites for young people aged 11 plus on parks and at Children Centres throughout Blackpool during the school summer holidays. All these sessions are free.  Contact Ian Parr for further details. 01253 626480.
• Personal Support continue to deliver their parenting courses They are well attended and supplemented for parents in particular need of support with weekly one-to-one meetings in which the Parenting Wisely programme provides a focus for discussion.
Family Support (Teenage Parents) now covers the whole of Blackpool.  They also run Chill Out group at St Johns Church on a Thursday - contact Sharon Wall on 01253 626480 for further details)
• Volunteers contribute hours that equal a full time project worker. A big big thank you to all our volunteers.
If you are a volunteer for the Banardo's Project or any other organisation in Blackpool please contact Nikki  on 01253 626480 for further information on getting a recognised qualification.  This training is free!
Barnardo's Blackpool Project