Children, young people and families first

Welcome to The Children's Centre

The Children’s Centre develops, manages, and pioneers a variety of community initiatives and services aimed at enabling children, young people and families to realise their full potential. We are an independent Manx charity – undertaking our own projects and working with others – to put children, young people and families first.

Please take some time to look through our Annual Review for 2012, and please become a Friend of The Children's Centre and help to fund our charitable projects - MOBEX, Out2Play, the Child Contact Centre and the Community Farm.

Feature story

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JCK help improve Community Farm access

The Children’s Centre’s Community Farm now has improved access for visitors. JCK, the Island’s leading plant hire and demolition company, has laid paths and put down paving to make it easier to get from the main building and courtyard to the vegetable patch and out-buildings. Particular attention has been paid to improving wheelchair access, and disabled parking spaces have been created in the main car park and in the courtyard.

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Sign up for Children’s Centre annual golf day

Sign up for Children’s Centre annual golf day

Teams are being urged to sign up The Children’s Centre’s annual charity golf day being held at Peel Golf Club on Friday June 14. Teams have a chance to win the coveted Golf Day Trophy - which was won last year by Barclays – and there will also be prizes for nearest to the pin and the longest drive. All funds will go to The Children’s Centre’s charitable projects which help families and children across the Island.

Events

Featured Events

The Children's Centre's Events What could be more enjoyable than having loads of fun taking part in an event and at the same time raising money for a local charity? The Children’s Centre events raise over £75,000 each year to support our work with children, young people and families on the Isle of Man, and we want you to help us! Here is a flavour of what's happening in 2013 - FUNDRAISING EVENTS.

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Making a donation to The Children's Centre is easy. Each year we need to raise in the region of £500,000 to support our charitable projects, Out2Play , Mobex , Child Contact Centre , Philip Christian Centre and the Community Farm . A donation of £10 could enable us to purchase play equipment...

A team of some of the best fell runners from the UK and Isle of Man smashed the course record in The Children’s Centre’s Race The Sun relay race last Saturday (May 18). The event – organised by the Island’s leading charity for families and children and sponsored by Mann Made Group - involves teams running a clockwise lap of the Island’s Raad ny Foillan 98 mile coastal footpath starting and finishing in Peel.

  • IOMDC Ltd celebrates 40 years on the Island

    Monday, May 20 2013 on

    The organisation that established the Spring Valley Estate, the Isle of Man Development Company Limited, celebrated its fortieth year on the Island by holding a reception on 15th May at the Sefton Hotel.

  • Sign up for Children’s Centre annual golf day

    Monday, May 20 2013 on

    Teams are being urged to sign up The Children’s Centre’s annual charity golf day being held at Peel Golf Club on Friday June 14. Teams have a chance to win the coveted Golf Day Trophy - which was won last year by Barclays – and there will also be prizes for nearest to the pin and the longest drive. All funds will go to The Children’s Centre’s charitable projects which help families and children across the Island.

  • JCK help improve Community Farm access

    Monday, May 20 2013 on

    The Children’s Centre’s Community Farm now has improved access for visitors. JCK, the Island’s leading plant hire and demolition company, has laid paths and put down paving to make it easier to get from the main building and courtyard to the vegetable patch and out-buildings. Particular attention has been paid to improving wheelchair access, and disabled parking spaces have been created in the main car park and in the courtyard.

  • Fostering First drop-in Sessions coming up ...

    Tuesday, May 07 2013 on

    A series of drop-in sessions are being held offering information to anyone interested in becoming a foster carer. The sessions are being organised by Fostering First, which is responsible for foster care across the Island and which operates under the umbrella of The Children’s Centre.

  • Point of Ayre Lighthouse Dare to Live Challenge

    Friday, April 19 2013 on

    Pictures taken at our Point of Ayre Dare to Live Challenge. Saturday 13th April 2013. Thank you to everyone who took part.

  • Charity team aims to climb four mountains in five days

    Monday, April 15 2013 on

    A team of charity fundraisers aims to walk to the top of the four highest points in Britain and the Isle of Man - and cycle hundreds of miles in between. The nine man team is hoping to raise £5,000 which will go towards The Children’s Centre’s charitable projects across the Island.

  • Lighthouse abseil - a day to remember

    Monday, April 15 2013 on

    Charity fundraisers – including some in fancy dress – took part in an abseil from the top of the Point of Ayre lighthouse. A total of 52 made the daring 105-foot descent on Saturday (April 13). It was all to raise funds for The Children’s Centre’s work with families and children across the Island. All the participants received expert instruction from charity’s MOBEX outdoor pursuits team. 

  • Boston win The Children’s Centre’s Think Big Challenge

    Monday, April 15 2013 on

    A team from Boston Limited put their business skills to good use by winning The Children’s Centre’s Fifty Quid Think Big Challenge. In the process the winners raised £1,375.34 for the charity by holding cake sales, selling breakfast baps, holding collections and organising a pub quiz. The team also set up an in-house tuck shop and held a competition to guess the number of sweets the team sold, as well as organising dress down days and a raffle

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