Great Yarmouth Supported Contact Centre

Precious relationships between separated parents and their children are kept alive thanks to volunteers at Great Yarmouth Family Contact Centre.  Supported contact at the Gorleston Centre helps youngsters maintain bonds with estranged parents where the resident parent has anxieties about leaving their children alone with ex-partners.

Terry Pover is the co-ordinator for the Family Contact Centre, and says "by allowing families to have a no pressure, safe environment, we allow them to return to a sense of normality.  Without attending the Contact Centre one parent may never see their child again.  We play a very important part in family structure.  All volunteers at the Centre under go child safeguarding training and help families every other Saturday.  We always know in advance which families are attending which helps us plan what toys to provide for visiting children".
 

Terry Pover - Contact Centre Co-ordinator

 

 The Centre is located at

The Shrublands Centre, Magdalen Way, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, NR31 7BP
and is open on alternate Saturdays from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
(families are requested to attend no earlier than 2:15pm unless previously agreed).

Telephone : (01603) 621702 (Tuesday - Thursday 9am - 5pm, Friday 9am - 4pm)
Mobile : 07979 428124 (Friday & Saturday contact weekends only)
 

To make a referral please complete the following referral form 

 

2012 Opening times:
January   14th & 28th                                     July               14th & 28th
February 11th & 25th                                     August          11th & 25th
March      10th & 24th                                     September    8th & 22nd
April         7th & 21st                                       October         6th & 20th
 May          5th & 19th                                       November      3rd & 17th 
June        2nd & 16th & 30th                           December      1st & 15th