Moss Side Parents Centre and Education Shop
Hilary Jones1978-1999
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The collection covers material relating to The Parents Centre and Education Shop throughout the period it was active. It includes papers, reports, photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence relating to the organisation. It also included project material relating to the Kosovo project that provided essential play activities for Kosova-Albanian refugee families that arrived at Manchester Airport in 1999.
Title:
Moss Side Parents Centre and Education Shop
Creator:
Date of work:
1978-1999
Reference number:
GB3228.15
Level of description:
Collection
Includes:
Custodial history:
Donated to the Centre
Arrangement:
Arranged into the following series:
1. Newspaper Articles and Cuttings
2. Flyers, invites, and Newsletters
3. Educational material/Handouts
4. Templates
5. Correspondence/Administration documents (1990's-)
6. Correspondence/Administration documents (1980's)
7. Correspondence/Administration documents (1970's)
8. Correspondence/Administration documents (no dates)
9. Reports
10. Thank you cards and notes
11. Photographs
12. Kosovar Childcare Project
Source:
Date of donation: 2015Donor name: Hilary Jones
Access restrictions:
Unrestricted24 hours notice is required to view this collection. Material will then be accessible through Manchester Central Library Search Room, Manchester Central Library, St. Peters Square, Manchester, M2 5PD. Any enquiries relating to this collection please contact: rrarchive@manchester.ac.uk
Use restrictions:
Restricted
General notes:
The Parents Centre and Education Shop opened in a shop unit in the Moss Side Centre on 13th November 1981. With a small team including social workers, it was a progressive, innovate, exciting project which aimed to bring Education into the Community. As part of the Education Welfare Service the Parents Centre responded to parents needs, and concerns of the parents would be fed back to the Education Department, through day-to-day contact with parents and wider-community.
The Parents Centre offered parents an open door to education. The organisation was far reaching and offered advice on welfare benefits, established groups for parents, held events, and aimed to diminish the ‘us’ and ‘them’ feeling that was apparent between parents and schools. They provided a neutral meeting place for teachers and parents to work together. The Centre was a success with the local community and catered to people’s diverse needs. The Centre reported that enquires had risen from 30 a month at the beginning to an average of 900 enquires a month. However the location was not ideal as a city-wide resource and it was felt that it was inaccessible to people in the North and South of Manchester.
In 1993, the location of The Parents Centre moved to the community room of the Princess Infant School due to the City Challenge re-development and the demolition of the Shopping Centre. The location was deemed as no longer “neutral” base. And the loss of two full-time staff members also created difficulties in terms of service-delivery. Lack of adequate publicity also contributed to a drop in visitors, and changes of funding and management also affected the organisation. The Parents Centre closed its doors in the late 1990’s.
Related material note:
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre holds GB3228.53: Voices of Kosovo in Manchester, an oral history project looking at the experience of those who came as refugees to the UK in 1999.
Language:
English
Record number:
8921571
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