Acorn Farm
Acorn Farm is an award-winning, family-friendly attraction in Kirkby, Merseyside. We’re open 7 days a week 10am-4pm and there’s always loads to see and do! Whatever the weather, Acorn Farm offers a great value, fun day out for everyone! We have a wide range of animals here at the farm, many of which you can feed and stroke.
www.acornfarm.co.uk
Apollo Active
Apollo Sports offer Sports and Athletics services to all people with disabilities and children from deprived areas.
Our aim is that no person should feel they cannot participate in sports and through our club there is always something for everyone to take part in.
www.apollosportsclub.co.uk
An Hour For Others
We are a charity which supports individuals and communities. We are opening a shop and community hub in Huyton village on the 28th September 2025
.www.anhourforothers.co.uk
Better Lives
Better Lives has grown from a longstanding Knowsley organisation, KPAIS (Knowsley Pensioners Advocacy and Information Service) KPAIS was established in 1998 by a group of older people in Kirkby – The Retired Members Association.
www.better-lives.org.uk
Better Lives Collective CIC
Better Lives Collective is a Community Interest Company (CIC) dedicated to making preventative healthcare and wellbeing support accessible to everyone — not just those who can afford it. We combine cutting‑edge health testing with mental resilience coaching to help people understand their bodies, restore balance, and build sustainable health from the inside out.
www.betterlivescic.com
Blackburn House
Blackburne House is a Liverpool-based charity that supports the development of local – and often vulnerable – women. With a core focus on education, we offer a wide range of nationally-recognised courses and qualifications to women – particularly in sectors in which women are still under-represented.
www.blackburnhouse.co.uk
Caring Connections
Care and Respite Support Services is a registered charity that since 1992 has been providing high quality care support services for residents of Knowsley and beyond. We support people of all ages and with any disability and we also support their families and carers so that they can have a much needed break.
www.caringconncections.org.uk
Centre 63
At Centre 63 we support young people from across the town with a safe place to go, build friendships, and to develop new skills. Young people have remained at the core of what we do throughout our years of operation we have broadened our activities in recognition of the wider needs of families, as well as young people within our community.
www.centre63.org.uk
Change Grow Live
Since we first started, one goal has driven everything we do: to make a difference in people’s lives. That’s still what drives us now. We know that what we do works, so we want as many people as possible to benefit. That’s how we’ll make our vision – to change society for the better – a reality.
www.changegrowlive.org
Circle Inclusive CIC
At Circle Inclusive we provide a safe, nurturing, and engaging day centre experience for adults with Special Educational Needs. Our mission is to provide person centred care, where everyone feels valued.
Community Foundation for Merseyside
Community Foundation for Merseyside
The Community Foundation for Merseyside is for donors, for communities and for Merseyside. As an independent registered charity we are part of a national movement of community foundations that undertakes strategic social investment, facilitates philanthropy and contributes to achieving positive social change in our local communities.
www.cfmerseyside.org.uk
Deafness Resource Centre
The Deafness Resource Centre provides services that aim to empower, support and enhance the quality of life of D/deaf people. Currently our services are offered across the Boroughs of St Helens, Halton and Knowsley. Our Children, Young People and Families Service also covers the Merseyside region.
www.deafnessrecourcecentre.org
Explore Partnership CIC
Our Vision – We want everyone to live a life free from poverty and hardship, with the opportunity for a positive future.
Our Mission – Support and empower children and families to transform their lives, raise aspirations and fulfil their potential.
www.explorepartnership.co.uk
Evolving Mindset CIC
Evolving Mindset is a Mental Health Community Interest Company (CIC) offering professional mental health training programmes within corporate, school and local community settings. Established in 2019, we are a not-for-profit CIC based in Merseyside. The mental health sessions we provide for businesses and schools enable us to give community-based assistance to those individuals and families who need it most.
www.evolvingmindset.co.uk
FareShare Mersyside
FareShare Merseyside is a food redistribution charity that rescues surplus food from the food industry and delivers it to charities and community groups supporting vulnerable people. In addition to tackling food waste and food insecurity, we run the New Horizons Employability Programme, providing accredited training and job support to help individuals gain skills and secure employment in logistics, warehousing, and food sectors.
www.fareshare.org.uk
Flourish and Succeed
Flourish & Succeed CIC has been developed by the Buffalo Mindset program to support all clients from Knowsley and Liverpool city region on their journey in achieving their specific goals though positive mindset, health and fitness. This course is suitable for anyone regardless of skill set, mind set or experience as tailored training will be implemented to suit the clients needs
Heart of Glass St Helens Ltd
We’re Heart of Glass, a Merseyside-based community arts organisation. We bring together artists and communities to make collaborative art, and provide support, resources and opportunities to artists and anyone interested in socially engaged practice. We believe that art has the power to bring us together, imagine new futures and create real change. Our aim is to create spaces where people can bring their different lived experience, knowledge and perspectives, in order to understand the world differently, together.
www.heartofglass.org.uk
Home Start Knowsley
Home-Start Knowsley is a voluntary organisation offering support to local families who are facing difficulty and have at least one child under the age of eleven. How we can help? A trained volunteer offers friendship as well as practical and emotional support. This is done in the family home and enables the family to cope with the pressures they are facing, and can help to reduce any crises.
www.homestartknowsley.org.uk
Innovate Volunteering CIC
Innovate Volunteering CIC are a well established Knowsley based provider of innovative volunteer led programmes and projects, focusing on the promotion and protection of the emotional health and well-being of children, young people, adults and families. We aim to: Provide good quality placement experiences for volunteers in line with good practice.
www.innovatevolunteering.co.uk
Lyndale Cancer Support Centre
Lyndale Cancer Support Centre provides support to people affected by Cancer, their family and friends. Our services include one-to-one support, group support and activities, complementary therapies, relaxation sessions for men and women, yoga, beauty therapies, craft group, art and computer classes etc. We have a Ramblers group which goes out once a month on a 3-4 mile walk, plus a culture rulture group visiting local historical sites and the theatre. Lyndale was founded in 1983 and has built up strong links with all the local hospitals, hospices, GP’s and health professionals across Merseyside.
www.lyndalecancersupport.co.uk
Made to be Mum CIC
We are a prevention before cure ethos in maternal wellbeing. our aim is to combat social isolation across our parenting community by providing a safe space to go, get peer support and attend different workshops.
Maggie O’Neill Business and Training Centre
WFH – Work From Here The Maggie O’Neill Business and Training Centre stands out in Huyton, Liverpool as a quality coworking space and business centre for flexible working and meeting, training, and courses. With a welcoming, laid-back environment, we provide an inspiring setting. The Centre has become a premier workspace and training venue in Knowsley. It is privately owned and operated, ensuring a quality experience for customers. It boasts a coworking space, 4 meeting rooms, private offices and virtual mailboxes for registering a business address. If you like: – Free locally roasted coffee; – Free WiFi; – Great transport links via car, bus or train; – Free on-site parking for 40 spaces; – Manned reception; – Friendly staff; – Great prices. Then welcome to your new work home!
Visit – https://mobtc.co.uk/
North West Air Ambulance
From accidental injuries to severe medical emergencies, our crew delivers specialist and enhanced pre-hospital care to the most critically ill and injured, and transport patients to the most appropriate hospital to achieve the best outcomes for them.
Nugent Care Society
Nugent is a Liverpool-based charity with a long-standing commitment to supporting and empowering the most vulnerable individuals and communities across the North West. Since 1881, we have provided vital support services, helping people of all ages to live safe, fulfilling and dignified lives.
www.wearenugent.org
Parkhaven Trust
Parkhaven Trust has a longstanding reputation in the local community. Established for over 130 years, they are proud to be recognised as leaders in dementia care services. They are a Centre of Excellence, leading the field in their use of the newest technologies for the benefit of the people they care for. Working hand-in-hand with their investment in the latest digital technologies is their ethos of kindness, care, support and respect.
www.parkhaven.org.uk
Rainbow Kids CIC
Rainbow Kids Ltd CIC will primarily be a play centre, a safe haven for those vulnerable children and young people within the Knowsley area and beyond, to access due to not being able to use conventional play centres and youth clubs. Rainbow Kids will support isolated families who need a space tailored to their individual needs. We aim to provide flexible, high quality day care services to children and young people with a variety of disabilities and complex health needs aged 5-25yrs old.
Renovate Community Repair CIC
Our ‘Community Home Care’ (CHC) Membership service is aimed to provide customers who need the peace of mind that they have help at hand for their home maintenance needs. This is one of our core services and our CHC Members get their maintenance help and also allow us to offer support to vulnerable community members.
The Brothers of Charity
The Brothers of Charity Services in England’s Community Engagement Teams aim to channel resources, skills and assets on a local level to build stronger, healthier and happier communities and support people from marginalised backgrounds in making a meaningful contribution.
The Eco Therapy Garden
Offering a personalised programme of Talking and Eco Therapy. Visit our Community Therapy Garden.
www.theecotherapygarden.com
The First Step Ltd
The First Step is a support service for those affected by domestic abuse. Domestic abuse can happen to anyone. You may feel confused, and frightened, if you want to explore your options, we can help.
www.thefirststep.org
TDCA
Torrington Drive Community Association is a charity made up of local residents and people who have worked with Local residents for the past thirty years. All of our activities support and involve the most marginalised in the area, assisting their involvement in their community and identifying their needs through the structure of TDCA. We work in partnership with Charities, Community Groups, Halewood Children’s Centre, FACE, and KMBC among many others in order to develop positive services and outcomes for families and our community.
www.tdcaonline.co.uk
Tower Hill Community Hub CIC
Tower Hill Community Hub has been at the centre of our community for over 50 years. We work with young people to direct them away from life on the streets and instead into a structured lifestyle that supports their mental, physical and emotional development, predominantly through our sport and mindset programme. In 2020, Tower Hill ABC CIC was established to help to grow our impact across the community. Since then, we have continued to develop as a community hub and now run a wide variety of sports and mindfulness programmes for all ages.
www.towerhillcommunityhub.com
Transforming Live Company
Transform Lives Company offers pioneering developmental support, work experience and ways of working that bring life-changing results for people with unmet life needs.
Vibe
The key purpose of youth work is to…. ‘Enable young people to develop holistically, working with them to facilitate their personal, social and educational development, to enable them to develop their voice, influence and place in society and to reach their potential.
www.vibeuk.org
Willowbrook Hospice
Willowbrook Hospice is a specialist palliative care unit based in Prescot providing quality care and support for our patients, their families and the communities of St Helens and Knowsley. We offer short term care, usually a couple of weeks, for patients with complex needs with referrals accepted on this basis. It is imperative to us to ensure that our patients are cared for in the best possible way, in their preferred place of care, wherever that may be. Patients admitted to our specialist ward will have the benefit of care from a highly skilled team, including complex discharge planning support.
www.willowbrook.org.uk
Woodlands Hospice
Woodlands Hospice is a 15-bed hospice that offers specialist palliative care, providing a sanctuary for individuals facing life-limiting illnesses and their families. With a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and therapists, the hospice focuses on alleviating pain and distress while also offering emotional, psychological, and spiritual support. Care at Woodlands is personalized, ensuring that each patient is treated with dignity, respect, and compassion in their final days.
www.woodlandshospice.org
Young Adult Respite Service
Mission Statement – ‘Creating positive change through interaction and activities in the
lives of young disabled adults.’
The aim of the project is to offer a service in the community and group (8 – 12 people) residential breaks to Merseyside young disabled adults (aged 16 – 30). To have a service in Knowsley that is specific for young disabled adults, a group usually caught in-between children and adult services.
www.yars.org.uk