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We help overcome barriers
TVWV works closely with local colleges , training and educational providers enabling us to offer a wide variety of both Vocational & non Vocational courses throughout the year. Most of these courses are free to those receiving the appropriate benefit and free crèche places are provided whilst women are attending courses.
We help strengthen local community
Maximising opportunities and displaying their achievements are what these women are about ‘age/race/culture/religion are no barriers in the Women’s Centre’. Whether its leisure, education, courses or ongoing support , the Women’s Centre gives them a place to meet and socialise, keeping them in touch with the local community and its issues.
We provide good quality care
Ensuring that there is good quality reliable childcare available makes a real difference for women. The Centre offers a crèche/playgroup which is OFSTED registered and a mobile service for outside organisations. We now also offer 15 hrs FREE childcare for 2 year olds. Crèche places are free for any women attending a course in the Centre.
We Provide Training Courses
SERVING WOMEN THROUGHOUT TEES VALLEY
HOW IT ALL STARTED
In 1987 a group of women from South Bank began to meet regularly with the help and support of the children’s Society Community Project, with the aim of improving the quality of life for women in the area. As a result, the group of women formed a steering group which begun to discuss a range of options as to how they could progress their original aim, they subsequently undertook a survey of local women’s needs and issues in the area, which culminated in a goal of setting up and managing a Women’s Centre in South Bank.
To develop this, aim the steering group started fundraising to develop ideas, in late 1990 the group was successful in obtaining funding and enabled us to take over a former warden’s house on Redcar Road East in South Bank.
In March 1991, South Bank Women’s Centre was opened. The Project went from strength to strength making links with local women and groups developing courses of interest, general advice and support around women’s issues.
In 1995 the Management Committee made up of local women gathered their hopes and dreams together to form a development plan to ensure the organisation moved forward as a pioneering grass roots organisation providing training, employment support and a drop-in facility to tackle the social, community and economic issues and needs of women.
Since this time the centre has become a key organisation for women, covering many issues and areas to ensure that women are able to make choices and create opportunities to enhance a better quality of life.
TeesValley Womens Centre is a pioneering grass roots venture, providing a training and educational resource, employment advice, guidance, support and a drop in facility to tackle the social, community and economic issues and needs of girls and women in the TeesValley area, all supported by free crèche facilities for children 0-8 years.
Our Team
Debby
Donna
Andrea
