The Liverpool centre remodelled to become the Five Children and Families Trust, and now plans to expand community services in an ambitious bid to become self-financing.
Robbie Davison, enterprise adviser at the trust, said: "We didn't want to be just a children's centre, so for the past three years we have been developing a sustainability plan."
The community launderette will be based in the centre of a deprived estate in the isolated Liverpool district of Speke, where the nearest such facility is four miles away.
The service will be combined with a cafe and mini-children's centre. A health centre and other community services will eventually be built on the same site.
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