To find out all about our latest projects, fundraising events and new developments at The Children’s Centre please view our news items.
Five MHKs - including three Government Ministers - have signed up to take part in a charity abseil to raise funds for The Children’s Centre. Community, Culture and Leisure Minister Tim Crookall MHK, Environment, Food and Agriculture Minister Phil Gawne MHK, and Treasury Minister Eddie Teare MHK will be joined on the charity challenge by MHKs Laurence Skelly and Kate Beecroft.
Jo Thomas, former Head of Children’s Safeguarding at the Isle of Man Government’s Department of Social Care, has joined The Children’s Centre as Practice Director. She is now based at the charity’s Woodbourne Road centre in Douglas, and her primary role is to provide line management and supervision of five services which the charity provides for Government - Family Centres, Supervised Child Contact Centre, Fostering, Outreach and Residential care.
Staff at Capita’s Isle of Man office donated new toys and gifts to the Island’s leading charity for families and children.
The 2012 Parenting...
Making a Christmas wish helped to raise more than £900 for The Children’s Centre’s Out2Play scheme which provides free, open access play sessions across the Island during school holidays. The charity created a ‘Wish Wall’ at The Strand Shopping Centre made up of boxes created by school children.
Monthly Draw...
Our umbrellas have been well and truly 'road-tested' over the last few weeks in the wet and windy weather, and they are all still working well. We have a limited number left in stock, so pop along to 94 Woodbourne Road to collect one, or call 676076 for more details.
The Children’s Centre’s Community Farm marks its first anniversary this month and is getting ready to open to the public in the spring. Over the past 12 months staff and volunteers have been creating a community farm based at Wallberry Farm on the Carnane Estate just off the Old Castletown Road in Douglas. The aim is to make it accessible to the whole community and offer children and young people from across the Island a chance to learn, from practical experience, the skills needed to care for animals and to grow crops. There will also be workshops at the Community Farm which can be used to learn skills that will be put to good use in maintaining and repairing farm tools and machinery.
Poverty has been the subject of great discussion in the UK in recent months, but there is little debate about the issue here in the Isle of Man. Is poverty a major social problem here? That’s one of the questions being posed at a conference organised by The Children’s Centre on November 30 at The Sefton Hotel.
If you’ve...
