Welcome
BACP, Bangladesh Association and Community Project, is a community centric organisation located in Central Rochdale. Our vision is to reduce the deprivation of the ethnic communities within Rochdale by enabling them to access opportunities to break down social and economic barriers and, thereby, help in the effective integration with the wider community. We work as a community hub providing various services and support by engaging directly with the people in the locality. Our services and activities include:
- provision of welfare rights advice, information and support services including the alternative office service for the Department of Works & Pensions (Advice service),
- facilitation of vocational, ESOL and IT training (Training and Learning),
- provision of day care activities promoting active aging (Elderly Day care),
- provision of gym and fitness facility promoting healthy, active lifestyle (Community gym),
- provision and facilitation of positive youth activities (Youth Club),
- provision of opportunities to people to find employment (Work club),
- provision of drop-in IT suite with internet and printing facility(IT hub),
- provision of after-school children’s activity (Computer club, Pool),
- provision of administrative support to the community (Form-filling, Letter drafting, Photocopying, Faxing, Emailing, Scanning, Translating),
- provision of work experience and volunteering opportunities,
- promoting community cohesion activities and cultural diversity ( Weekly community Get –togheters, events),
- facilitating community consultation, focus groups, meetings,
- facilitating user group and partner agency activities (Health events, talks, surgeries, and weekly sessions).
Our catchment includes the wards of Wardleworth, Hamer, Smallbridge and Belfield which are amongst the most socially and economically deprived areas in the borough and indeed within the UK itself. The wards themselves have a predominantly South Asian population. Our services, no doubt, targeted at the ethnic communities, but are in no way confined only to them. Anyone walking through the door can avail of our services without any discrimination. Our service users come from all over the borough. BACP is recognised as a significant provider of services to the local communities. The services benefit all sections of the community, children, young and old, men and women