B&Q Chorley

OUR MISSION: To deliver the highest quality construction-based vocational training and support to enable young people and adults to gain skills, qualifications and confidence to enhance their full potential and build a positive future. Preston Vocational Centre (PVC) is a registered charity providing vocational education, training and support to young people across Lancashire. We work with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, including many who have experienced challenges in mainstream education or face barriers to employment and further learning. For over 17 years, we have helped more than 7,200 learners develop practical skills, gain qualifications and build the confidence needed to progress into apprenticeships, employment and further education. Our programmes include Bricklaying, Plastering, Joinery and Carpentry, Painting and Decorating, Plumbing, and Construction Health and Safety. Our training is delivered through hands-on, practical learning in a supportive environment that promotes personal growth, resilience, teamwork and positive outcomes. As a charity, we greatly benefit from donations of surplus building materials, tools, fixtures, fittings and consumables. Items such as timber, paint, hardware, fixings, decorating supplies, plumbing materials and general DIY products can be used directly within our workshops and student projects. These donations provide learners with valuable real-world experience while helping reduce waste and ensuring we can continue to offer high-quality training opportunities to those who need them most. By supporting PVC, you are helping local people gain the skills, confidence and opportunities needed to build a positive future.

Our objective is to reach out to our community and the nation with the love of God and the gospel of the kingdom, being the hand and feet of jesus to all. we carry out dance outreaches, midweek and sunday services, breaking of bread services, and other outreaches. we participate in street pastoring & committed to the unity of churches. we are big enough to accommodate everyone & to give all significance. We also carry out food outreaches where we give out food to the vulnerable in our community

The objective of the charity is the relief of food insecurity and poverty, in Chorley through the establishment of a network of Food Clubs. We also focus on social isolation and helping to get people out into the community.