At Charter House, we provide day care support in a safe environment to adults with disabilities and learning difficulties. This is a fantastic space for people to develop their interests, form new friendships, try new experiences and join in with structured and meaningful activities. We have a varied schedule of inclusive activities with on hand support from a dedicated team of professionals.

What is Charter House Resource Centre

Charter House Resource Centre & Sensory Room C.I.C. has been established to benefit people who have special needs or a disability, the elderly and people with dementia. Our main values are to learn, socialise and have fun!

Here at Charter House Resource Centre, we provide a safe environment for adults with learning disabilities, elderly people and those with dementia. It is a place where they can meet others and join in with structured and meaningful activities. We ensure that each and every individuals need is met.

We offer a range of learning opportunities, delivered in a supportive and informal environment. We are based in Burnley. Charter House Resource Centre is easily accessible from surrounding areas including Blackburn, Accrington, Rossendale, Pendle and all of East Lancashire.

Charter House has been providing care and support to adults with disabilities since 2011, with a fantastic team of fully trained, experienced Adult Support Workers on hand to support the complex needs of each service user.

Our support workers undertake extensive annual training to ensure they have the knowledge and capability to provide the highest quality of care possible. Here are just some of the training courses they complete:
• Autism Awareness
• Epilepsy Awareness
• Positive Behavioural Support
• Dementia Awareness
• Manual Handling 
• Safeguarding Adults and Children 
• Equality and Diversity 
• Mental Capacity 
• Person Centre Care 
• Professional Boundaries
• Stroke Awareness 
• L2 Care Certificate 
Alongside our team of care professionals, our day care facility has been adapted to ensure full accessibility, furnished with a sloped ramp leading to the main entrance, wide doorways throughout, 2 ceiling track hoists (with 1 more hoist soon to be added in our hydrotherapy room), and 1 mobile hoist.”
Charter House Day Care accessible ramp
Accessible bathroom

What activities do you provide?

We organise a wide range of varied and inclusive activities for our service users, including:
• Arts and Craft projects
• 6 week learning project
• Board games
• Bingo
• Day trips into the community
• Baking
• Card making
• Music therapy
• Computer stations
• Pool table
• Nails and hand massage
• Xbox Kinect
• Musical movement sessions
• Seasonal parties 
• And much more!
Where practical, we make efforts to incorporate numeracy and literacy skills into our activities and regularly revise and adapt our sessions to suit the needs of our service users whilst ensuring they remain stimulating and engaging.”
Our activity schedule varies throughout the year and often follows seasonal themes, current trends, awareness days and public holidays and celebrations.
Charter House Day Care accessible ramp
Accessible bathroom

Advice and support

For advice and support on how to access our care services, including social care support, direct payments, budgeting and pricing,
call us today or pop in for a chat!
You can find of us at Charter House Resource Centre, Morse St, BB10 4PB
or call us on 01282 429094.

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Community Interest Company (C.I.C)

 

Charter House Resource Centre C.I.C is a community interest company which means we are a not-for-profit organisation. Any profits we make will be reinvested into Charter House to provide the community with the best equipment and services possible for people with learning disabilities.

We are a friendly, fun and welcoming business who provide day care activities for adults and young people aged 16+ with a disability.

We offer lots of different activity sessions (see our resource centre page) as well as a multi sensory room available to hire for people of all ages and abilities.
As a centre we provide the up most care for everyone we provide a service for.

We have a person centred approach where we tailor all our activities around the individual person, to ensure that they have a positive and engaging experience to meet their needs.

Charter House Resource Centre is managed by Carolyn and Jason Smith – a married couple who have worked for over 20 years with people who have disabilities. Carolyn has managed a large and successful day centre in Nelson for over 4 years.  Jason has worked with people who have a wide range of learning disabilities – both for the NHS, and more recently a large private company for over 10 years.

Contact us to discuss how we can meet your needs.

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