Lancashire Women Preston Centre

Lancashire Women are a leading charity, with an average of 5000 Lancashire women accessing our services each year. We empower women to live safer, happier and more positive lives. We offer help with employment support, life skills, and also mental health and wellbeing support (1 to 1 sessions and group sessions). We also have a Justice & Safety team who work with women in the justice system or women who might face homelessness or domestic abuse.

We provide a gendered considered response to offer more effective support for women who are in contact, or at risk of contact, with the criminal justice system.

By working with a range of partners and multi agency programmes, we are able to use our expertise in the provision of gender specific interventions to improve outcomes for women who may be facing multiple and complex issues, for example homelessness, poor emotional well being and experiences of trauma and abuse.

We work with women at all points in the criminal justice system, placing staff within police custody and prison settings to support engagement as well as further extending our community provision.

Pre-covid, we had a strong presence in the community at our centre in Preston before it closed its doors in 2020. We are proud to announce we are back!! Our new Centre is on Church Street, just a small stroll from the City Centre, opposite Preston Minster.

We offer one to one sessions and groups to support women with their mental health and wellbeing and to offer money, energy and employability advice and drug and alcohol support. We also work directly with the Probation Service in Preston to support women who have been involved in the criminal justice system.