Partner Directory

Bournemouth Churches Housing Association


Contacts	Name: Lorna Trent Name: Martin Hancock Role: Chief Executive Work Telephone: (01202) 410500
Address	St Swithuns House, 21 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth
Postcode	BH1 3NS View Map (opens a new window)
Website	www.bcha.org.uk (opens a new window)
Partner Type	Housing • Learning & Education • Voluntary & Community • Young People •
Life Events	Children 0-16 • Young Adults 16-25 • Education • Caring • Older People 65+ • Housing
What we do	-Widen opportunities and promote learning for social excluded adults - Support the raising of standards of educational achievement for young people and adults - Ensure that all young people have access to a range of youth services - Provide a wide range Widen opportunities and promote learning for social excluded adults - Support the raising of standards of educational achievement for young people and adults - Ensure that all young people have access to a range of youth services - Provide a wide range Widen opportunities and promote learning for social excluded adults - Support the raising of standards of educational achievement for young people
Contribution to Partnership	"To provide accommodation, care, support and help, tailored to the specific needs of homeless people and others in housing need in Dorset." Bournemouth Churches Housing Association (BCHA) provides fully and semi-supported accommodation and family homes, with a link advice centre, outreach and resettlement and floating support. Residential Service activities include projects for youth accommodation, single homelessness, mental health and those in need of help with alcohol and drug addiction problems. We also provide a women's refuge, a mother and baby home and a rent deposit scheme. BCHA is a training provider and has the contract for the New Deal Voluntary Sector Option for the whole of Dorset and for delivering Gateway training. BCHA is also committed to providing training for its residents with the aim of each resident having an individual Back to Work Plan.