About our Charity

Empowerment is an innovative charity based in Blackpool, which has made a long term commitment to supporting our local communities and improving lives. In 2017, Empowerment decided that its future was to be that of a locally based charity serving marginalised communities in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast. We also reduced the size of the charity and sought to recruit locally based people so that we can become a highly trusted charity working alongside our local communities.

We have a strong and stable Board of Trustees, which is highly experienced as a body of people, an inspiring leadership team and staff members who are exemplary in their passion to support people on the margins of society to reach their potential.

We are a ‘User-Led’ charity with service user representation on our Board of Trustees, a range of opportunities whereby service users shape and develop our services and the facilitation of user groups, to ensure their voice is heard by the key decision makers and providers of services in our local community.

Our core values are:

• Positivity
• Patience
• Respect

Our mission is to empower people to feel:

• Safe
• Supported
• Strengthened

Our Services

We support people with a whole host of issues, concerns and needs, empowering them to have a voice, choice and control over their own lives by offering independent advocacy and support. This is a brief overview of what we do:

Blackpool Advocacy Hub

Providing a single point of access for all of Blackpool’s advocacy provision including:

• Independent Mental Health Advocacy
• Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy
• Health Complaints Advocacy
• Children’s Advocacy
• Non-Statutory Advocacy
• Paid Relevant Persons Representative
• Care Act Advocacy

The Den

Children’s IDVA -Supporting children and young people affected by domestic abuse either in their family unit or within their own relationships.

Fulfilling Lives – Lived Experience Team and Volunteer Co-ordination

Providing opportunities for people with ‘Lived Experience’ of Multiple & Complex Needs, including mental health, homelessness, substance misuse and offending behaviour. The opportunities include volunteering roles and to                  co-produce the service design and commissioning of future services.

Healthwatch Blackpool

Providing opportunities for all members of the public in Blackpool to have their voices heard relating to the delivery of health and social care services.

Service User Groups

Facilitating two service user groups:

• Speak Out Forum– For people with Learning Disabilities, to empower them to have a voice and choice regarding the services which are provided to them.
• P.I.E.R Forum – To provide opportunities for people with experience of mental health issues to have their say on future service provision.

We are local!

Empowerment is proud of its Blackpool heritage and remains committed to serving our local communities in the future. Being a local charity means that we are known and trusted and have a long term commitment to the people of Blackpool and the Fylde Coast.

Most of our staff live in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast and as part of our social value commitment we strive to only use local businesses and contractors so as to support the local economy and keep the Blackpool ‘Pound’ in Blackpool!

Contact us today! Tel: 0300 32 32 100

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