High quality, high impact services for all

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The best start to your child’s life

With education and a supportive social group, parents are empowered to make the best choices for their children.

Our parent and child group, Tiny Tots is held three times a week. They include sensory play, story time, dance, and outdoor games, as well as healthy cooking classes and simple exercise.

Tiny Tots
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Becoming school-ready at our nursery

Our early years nursery builds the foundations of your children’s education. Safe and secure with fully equipped indoor and outdoor learning areas, Higher Folds Nursery is run by fully-trained, experienced staff.

Toddlers and preschool aged children have the freedom to learn and play with other children, develop their communication skills, and get ready for their first year at school.

Our Nursery

Aims & Objectives

    • – To improve local people’s health and fitness.
    • – To improve parenting skills.
    • – To reduce loneliness and isolation.
    • – To provide excellent early years education.

All our goals have a knock-on effect. We believe that getting early years education right can improve employment opportunities throughout the community, and reducing isolation can improve people’s health and fitness for life.

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Living Well on Higher Folds

Through walking, cycling, and sports activities help local residents form friendships. We also recycle food through our FareShare scheme.

Living Well on HF
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Ageing Well on Higher Folds

People are living longer than ever before, often leading to isolation and poor health, our aim is to help local people have a good later life.  Our activities help Higher Folds residents have good or better health in a connected community.

Ageing Well on HF

Our Values

  • Provide quality services and value for money.
  • Maintain the trust of our community, stakeholders, and board members.
  • Enable local people to grow and learn.
  • Support our staff and volunteers.
  • Deliver our services innovatively and creatively.
  • Always consider ways to improve.
  • Work sustainably and consider the environment.

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Financial Information

For more details of our financial performance please take a look at our Annual Reports and Final Accounts

Finacial Information

Our History

The Centre was originally managed by Wigan Council. It was leased to a group of local residents in 1997 who formed themselves into a Registered Charity and Limited Company.
Charity number 1076911 and Company number 03560600.

The Charity was established to provide benefit for the residents of Higher Folds in Leigh, without distinction of, sex, or of political, religious or other opinions, by associating the local authorities, voluntary organisations and the local inhabitants in the following manner to advance education for the public benefit to relieve sickness and preserve and protect good health of persons resident in the area of benefit: the advancement of education and training of young people and adults.

Our staff and volunteers all strive to ensure that our ethos of a welcoming centre for one and all is as strong today as it was when we started.

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Board of Trustees 2019

The Higher Folds Community Centre Board is democratically elected and drawn from the local community. We collaborate with fundraisers, volunteers, local residents, and members of Wigan Council.

Councillor Anita Thorpe

Chairperson

Mrs Hazel Dixon

Secretary

Mr Mark Kendrick

Trustee

Mrs Shirley Yates

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Mrs Kathleen Knowles

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Councillor Keith Cunliffe

Advisor

Councillor Fred Walker

Trustee

Mrs Irene Carter

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Need to hire a room?

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We have three rooms for hire. Our local community can use them for meetings, groups, get-togethers, training sessions, and more.

All visitors can use our free super-fast Wi-Fi, lectern, laptops, projector, screens, and flip charts.