Innovate Volunteering CIC is proudly born and bred in Knowsley, and we’re passionate about creating real, lasting impact where we live and work. As a Community Interest Company, we’re rooted in people, purpose, and place, and now, we are inviting Knowsley’s businesses to join us in building stronger, healthier, and more connected communities.
Three powerful ways for your organisation to grow its people, enhance its purpose, and give back locally, all while meeting your social value, CSR, and employee wellbeing goals.
- The Hub Takeover: A Team-Building Experience with Purpose
Looking for a team away day that does more than tick boxes? The Hub Takeover at Manor Farm Community Hub offers a hands-on, heart-led experience that immerses your team in the real-life running of a busy community space.
For a half or full day, your team will step into the roles of charity shop staff, café helpers, and community hosts, all while taking part in bespoke team challenges designed to build connection, creativity, and community understanding.
What’s included?
- Real community interaction: Run our charity shop and café, serve customers, and support locals.
- Team challenges: Take part in fun but meaningful challenges including:
- Fundraising Task: Raise as much as you can through in-shop efforts.
- Footfall Challenge: Find creative ways to bring more people into the hub.
- Sustainability Challenge: Develop ideas to keep the hub thriving for years to come.
- Reflection session: Explore what the experience has taught you about leadership, empathy, and collaboration.
What your team gets:
- Stronger communication and teamwork
- A renewed sense of purpose and connection
- A deeper understanding of community needs
- Delivery on social value and corporate responsibility
Whether it’s a new team, a department re-group, or a morale boost, the Hub Takeover will leave your staff inspired, and your business proud.
- Venue Hire at Bryer Road Community Centre, Prescot – Now with Party Packages & Licensed Events
Need an affordable, well-equipped venue for your business meetings, training days, or even celebrations and licensed events?
Bryer Road Community Centre in Prescot offers a flexible and welcoming environment with all the professional features you would expect, and now with added extras to help you celebrate in style.
What’s available:
- Main Hall: Seats up to 100. Great for conferences, networking events, large meetings or parties.
- Breakout Room: Seats up to 15. Ideal for workshops, refreshment stations, small group sessions or buffets.
- Licensed for Events: Perfect for evening functions, awards nights, community celebrations, or family parties.
We now also offer full event packages including:
- Licensed bar and catering options
- Complete room dressing service – centrepieces, lighting, themed décor
- Entertainment packages – DJ, games, childrens’ entertainers and more
- Customisable party packages for birthdays, anniversaries, staff events and more
- Professional meeting hire with optional refreshments, equipment, and AV support
Every booking helps support local residents, while giving your team or guests a great experience in a warm, community-led setting.
- Hypno-Art: Creative Wellbeing for Teams
Looking to support your team’s mental health, emotional resilience, and productivity, in a way that’s both creative and clinically effective?
Hypno-Art is a unique team wellbeing experience that blends guided hypnotherapy with intuitive art-making, helping your staff regulate stress, reset limiting beliefs, and reconnect with themselves and each other.
What’s included in a Hypno-Art session:
- Guided hypnotherapy by an Advanced Hypnotherapist
- Creative art session led by an experienced artist
- Techniques to calm the nervous system and regulate stress
- Tools to overcome limiting beliefs and improve mindset
- A takeaway Wellbeing Pack and audio track for continued support
- A powerful shared experience that fosters connection and creativity
Workplace outcomes:
- Reduced stress and emotional burnout
- Improved team dynamics and communication
- Greater focus, positivity, and resilience
- Enhanced productivity and performance
This is much more than a paint-and-prosecco session, it’s a deep, restorative and empowering experience that gives your team tools for lasting change.
Social Value in Action – Where Every Booking Makes a Difference
When you work with Innovate Volunteering CIC, you are not just booking a venue or ticking a CSR box, you are directly funding services that matter, including:
- A safe and welcoming Community Hub
- Social connection for isolated and
- adults
- Warm meals for residents during the colder months
- Volunteering opportunities that boost confidence and skills
- Dementia-friendly groups and hospital discharge support
Let’s Work Together
We are proud of our Knowsley roots and are actively looking to build new partnerships across all sectors, business, voluntary, public, and beyond. Together, we can make Knowsley a place where people, business, and community thrive side by side.
Ready to book your Hub Takeover, Hypno-Art session or venue hire?
Contact us: Bookings@innovatevolunteering.co.uk
Call: 0151 378 0824
Innovate Volunteering CIC – Where Business and Community Meet for Good