Staff

We are a small, happy, dedicated team who are supported

by our wider SAFE family including the hub creatives and the many volunteers who help in so many ways!

Brian Dawe

CEO Read more

Bridget Hutchinson

Programmes/Finance Manager Read more

Jane Elizabeth Dawe

Community Partnerships Manager Read more

Sue Trish

Business Support Programme Manager Read more

Mike Walker

Volunteer Coordinator Read more

Les Carrington

Administrative Coordinator Read more

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Pinolo

PINOLO is an inspiring project which aims to provide unemployed artists/creatives with specific skills, to offer them training in social entrepreneurship, to improve their employment opportunities and to encourage them to undertake social entrepreneurial initiatives.
ART4US

Art4us project is aimed at supporting professionals working with young people/youth workers/artists. A curriculum of creative modules designed to promote mental wellbeing through participatory arts activities and helps youth workers to recognise the early signs of mental health issues in young people.
Yourotrip

Yourotrip is an exciting transnational project aiming to encourage young people to have a voice and engage in democratic procedures, getting involved in decision making around the context of climate change.
Community hubs: ten strategies for sustainability

This research was funded in 2019 through the Power to Change Research Institute’s open research grants programme.

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Our values and vision

our mission statement: “To foster community cohesion, social inclusion and individual well-being whilst contributing to economic and environmental regeneration”
Our Partners
Community Pub & Gardens
Our plans...

Our ambitious plans to make our small community within Bootle a destination for locals and visitors alike have moved on substantially...
PBSA– Place Based Social Action.

We believe that everyone deserves to live in a happy, healthy neighbourhood, so for us, social action is about people coming together to help improve lives and find collective solutions to the problems and issues that affect our community.
Business support

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Employment support

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Community business model tours

We offer a variety of bespoke tours of our organisation.
Brian Dawe

CEO
Well Sefton Programme

Our mission to Zendoodle Bootle is underway thanks to the Well Sefton programme! We’ve been zendoodling in the Lock & Quay community pub, down the #destinationbootle canal-side and through the Oriel Rd railway underpass – have you spotted them yet?!