Blackburn Diocese Board for Social Responsibility
Home  
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Welcome to BSR Grassroots
Welcome to the new BSR Grassroots website.  The site is currently still in early stages of development.  Please bear with us as there are still a large number of sections empty.  We will endeavour to update these as soon as possible.  If you have any comments to make, or if you find a problem with the site, please e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 
BSR Grassroots provides family support, works with people with disabilities, their carers, and develops community centres and community dialogue. 
 
 BSR staff
 
The Challenging Poverty team ....
 
The Equalities & Inclusion team works in partnership with local communities to:
 
Raise awareness of disability and carers issues
Influence positive change
Promote and develop inclusive communities
Develop BSL interpreted services across the Diocese
Recruit, train and develop a team of volunteers
 
The Family Life team was set up to support:

  • Families of children where their education is suffering through difficulties in the home
  • Working with fathers
  • Families in play  -  helping parents to develop play with their children
  • Families of prisoners, prisoners and ex-offenders returning from prison
  • The provision of child contact in child contact services
  • Supervised Child Contact Service in East Lancashire
  • The building of partnerships in local communities in support of families, with:
    • local parishes
    • other Diocesan agencies
    • other Statutory & voluntary organisations

We have in recent years:

  • Carried out research into the needs for supported child contact centres in Lancashire
  • Supported asylum seekers and refugees in Blackburn with Darwen
  • Supported community development through young families
 
Read more...
 
Who's Online
Webdesign by Webmedie.dk Webdesign by Webmedie.dk