The Boathouse Youth provides centre-based youth work, holiday provision and residential experiences to children in Blackpool’s most deprived areas.
In April 2021, the charity launched a specialist programme for children with additional needs and disabilities in response to a gap in the market caused by the closure of local children’s charity Aspired Futures, which was later amalgamated into The Boathouse Youth.
A new Pathway Programme for children aged five to 14 was created, with a dowry payment from Aspired Futures to cover the first year, and funding from the National Lottery’s Reaching Communities Programme to secure delivery through to 2025.
Children are referred by teachers, professionals or parents and once their needs have been assessed by youth workers, they are placed in groups based on their age and level of need.
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