Specialist support for women in
Welcome to this directory of women’s centres and specialist women’s services based and operating in Lancashire.
The National Women’s Justice Coalition believes all women and girls in contact with the criminal justice system should have access to high quality, trauma-responsive, gender-specific specialist services that are evidence-based and continuously improving. To support this, each of the organisations featured on the Women’s Services Map has been reviewed and verified by the NWJC and the services advertised in this directory are routinely checked and updated for accuracy and availability.
Women’s Centres inLancashire
This is a list of women’s centres in Lancashire that offer a range of specialist services to address women and girl’s complex and multiple needs.
These services may include community support groups, clinics, programmes and drop-ins, self-help courses and trainings, prison-based and in-reach services, casework support and one to one personalised support and seek to address the following support needs: Behavioural Support, Bereavement, Grief and Loss, Domestic Abuse, Education, Training and Employment, Family, Parenting and Relationships, Finance, Benefit and Debt, Mental Health, Peer to Peer, Perinatal, Physical Health & Wellbeing, Substance Misuse and Volunteering
Click on the Centre name to find out more about the featured organisation and the specialist women’s services they provide.
Lancashire Women Burnley 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). Lancashire Women Accrington 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). 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). Lancashire Women Blackpool 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).Support for women in Lancashire with Behavioural Support challenges
Behavioural support services inspire and build confidence, providing women with tools, guidance and encouragement to address challenges linked to social anxiety and relationship building. These services also help women and girls to develop emotional coping strategies and social behaviours in positive and empowering ways.
LW Snap Back Dependency & Recovery Support
We can support women to reduce barriers to accessing and engaging with support to help keep women in recovery from Alcohol and drug dependency. LW Steps to Confidence
We aim to give you the tools you need to make positive change within a safe and supportive space. NHS Talking Therapies East Lancashire
Lancashire Women are a provider of NHS Talking Therapies in East Lancashire including Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Accrington, Ribble Valley and Rossendale. What are Talking Therapies? Talking therapies, or psychological therapies, are effective and confidential treatments. They can help with common mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression. LW Steps to Confidence
We aim to give you the tools you need to make positive change within a safe and supportive space. Mental Health One to One Support
POW is a project in Blackpool. It supports women’s mental health and wellbeing by offering one-to-one counselling, courses and peer-led support. Blackpool Centre is a women-only space just a short walk from Blackpool town centre on Church Street (Near the Salvation Army) We are open 9am-4pm Monday to Friday for pre-booked appointments and groups. LW Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt)
Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt) Lancashire Women offer FREE impartial, non-judgmental advice to women in Lancashire if you are worried about any aspect of debt. Our highly qualified Money Advice team are FCA regulated and IMA Certified and have over 50 years of experience among us. LW Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt)
Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt) Lancashire Women offer FREE impartial, non-judgmental advice to women in Lancashire if you are worried about any aspect of debt. Our highly qualified Money Advice team are FCA regulated and IMA Certified and have over 50 years of experience among us. LW Move Forward
Are you ready to move forward into work? Our Move Forward programme offers One to one employment support at our Preston Centre. Whether you took a career break to raise a family, devoted your time to caregiving or have a long-term health condition, we understand the unique challenges you face. LW Energy Advice (including bills and energy saving tips)
Lancashire Women offer FREE support to help you stay warm, whilst reducing your energy bills. This service is available to women, families and vulnerable people across Lancashire. Our service also includes a female handy person who can help with small jobs around the house. LW Steps to Confidence
We aim to give you the tools you need to make positive change within a safe and supportive space. LW Energy Advice (including bills and energy saving tips)
Lancashire Women offer FREE support to help you stay warm, whilst reducing your energy bills. This service is available to women, families and vulnerable people across Lancashire. Our service also includes a female handy person who can help with small jobs around the house. LW Snap Back Dependency & Recovery Support
We can support women to reduce barriers to accessing and engaging with support to help keep women in recovery from Alcohol and drug dependency. LW Snap Back Dependency & Recovery Support
We can support women to reduce barriers to accessing and engaging with support to help keep women in recovery from Alcohol and drug dependency. POW: Mental Health and Wellbeing support
A person centred approach to improve the wellbeing of the client via talking therapy, offering one to one counselling, groups and peer-led support. Available for women who live in live in Blackpool and Fylde. NHS Talking Therapies – East Lancashire
Talking therapies are psychological treatments for mental and emotional problems like stress, anxiety and depression. There are lots of different types of talking therapy, but they all involve working with a trained therapist. This may be one-to-one, in a group, online or over the phone. It is open to women who are registered with a GP in East Lancashire. LW Energy Advice (including bills and energy saving tips)
Lancashire Women offer FREE support to help you stay warm, whilst reducing your energy bills. This service is available to women, families and vulnerable people across Lancashire. Our service also includes a female handy person who can help with small jobs around the house. LW Snap Back Dependency & Recovery Support
We can support women to reduce barriers to accessing and engaging with support to help keep women in recovery from Alcohol and drug dependency. LW Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt)
Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt) Lancashire Women offer FREE impartial, non-judgmental advice to women in Lancashire if you are worried about any aspect of debt. Our highly qualified Money Advice team are FCA regulated and IMA Certified and have over 50 years of experience among us. LW Steps to Confidence
We aim to give you the tools you need to make positive change within a safe and supportive space. LW Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt)
Money Advice (including Budgeting, Benefits and Debt) Lancashire Women offer FREE impartial, non-judgmental advice to women in Lancashire if you are worried about any aspect of debt. Our highly qualified Money Advice team are FCA regulated and IMA Certified and have over 50 years of experience among us. LW Energy Advice (including bills and energy saving tips)
Lancashire Women offer FREE support to help you stay warm, whilst reducing your energy bills. This service is available to women, families and vulnerable people across Lancashire. Our service also includes a female handy person who can help with small jobs around the house.Support for women in Lancashire with Bereavement, Grief and Loss challenges
For women experiencing bereavement, grief and loss, accessing emotional support, counselling services and advocacy support can be crucial to their healing. Grief counselling, talking therapy and group work can all provide comfort and guidance to women as they cope with their loss.
Support for women in Lancashire with Education, Training and Employment challenges
For services offering women and girls support with accessing and participating in education, training or employment opportunities including paid and voluntary work when leaving prison. Services include helping those experiencing unemployment or needing to declare criminal convictions to re-enter the job market or education.
Support for women in Lancashire with Family, Parenting and Relationships challenges
These specialist services and programmes aim to support women to navigate and manage the challenges and demands associated with their caring and dependent relationships, parenting responsibilities and trusted interpersonal relationships with family members, partners, friends and colleagues.
Support for women in Lancashire with Finance, Benefit and Debt challenges
Many women experience stress, anxiety and hardship linked to their finances, benefits and debt. Specialist finance, benefit and debt support services can offer financial advice, debt relief and management plans, guidance on benefit entitlements and allowances, and signposting to professional advice and support schemes aimed at relieving financial hardship.
Support for women in Lancashire with Mental Health challenges
Women and girls experiencing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, poor mental health, at risk of self-harm or emotional crisis, and difficulties accessing appropriate mental healthcare need specialist support. This includes help to access to mental health professionals, counselling, talking therapies, services and advocacy support. These services can signpost and refer women into appropriate services, develop care plans, facilitate crisis interventions, and begin to address women’s mental health issues and challenges to achieve mental health wellness.
Support for women in Lancashire with Peer to Peer challenges
Peer to peer and mentoring services can help to empower women, connect those with similar lived and learned experiences of the criminal justice system, and provide opportunities for women to find volunteer and paid work.
Support for women in Lancashire with Perinatal challenges
For pregnant women and girls, new mothers and those with babies and toddlers under 2, accessing antenatal, postnatal and perinatal support and services is vital during their journey into motherhood. Specialist services for women separated from their children, in contact with the children’s social care system, and for pregnant women in prison, on mother & baby units and at risk of removal, specialist services are also available.
Support for women in Lancashire with Physical Health & Wellbeing challenges
Managing physical health and wellbeing is essential for women to be able to heal, grow and prosper. These women’s centres and specialist services aim to support women and girls to develop and keep healthy habits, improve their fitness, do exercise, practice mindfulness and self-care, eat and sleep well, participate in rewarding hobbies and activities, and value themselves fully.
Support for women in Lancashire with Substance Misuse challenges
These services support women and girls experiencing addiction or drug, alcohol or substance dependency, undergoing drug and alcohol cessation or intervention treatment, recovering from addiction, have problems with drugs, drink or unsafe substances and those who identify as recovering addicts.
Support for women in Lancashire with Volunteering challenges
Volunteer and volunteering roles can give women and girls the chance to get involved in fulfilling, worthwhile, community-based unpaid work, develop skills, knowledge and experience, build networks and meet new people, access training and personal development opportunities and find rewarding routes into paid employment.
Support for women in Lancashire with Domestic Abuse challenges
Domestic violence and abuse support services help women and girls to overcome the physical, emotional, financial and logistical impacts of abuse and rebuild their lives free from fear and intimidation. For women seeking safety, fleeing from an abusive partner or relationship, or recovering as a survivor of abuse, these services can provide a framework for recovery.