"She told me she wasn't aware that her daughter would 'have to be nice to Pakis'," says Caffery. "That's just what we have to work with sometimes."
Peacemaker, a voluntary sector organisation based in the Lancashire town, has trained more than 30 young people of all skin colours and races to be peer educators.
But these young people don't wind up preaching to the converted: far from it. They are charged with battling the myths and misinformation of communities that they themselves would normally never be seen in.
On a residential weekend last September in Devon, one mixed group of peer educators was brought closer together in a way they might not have chosen themselves.
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