The Ability & Sleep Hub

09/10/2026

💜 What an amazing day creating NEW Sleep Champions! 💜 💤

Today, we were delighted to welcome a fantastic group of individuals from workplaces, education, health and community organisations across Furness to our brand new CPD Accredited Sleep Champion Training at The Bridge in Barrow.

👏 A huge congratulations to everyone who attended!

🌟 You are now part of something bigger!

By becoming Sleep Champions, you're helping us raise awareness, challenge misconceptions and encourage conversations about sleep within workplaces and communities.

💜 A very special thank you to Vickie Beevers CEO of The Sleep Charity, for joining us in Barrow and co-delivering today's training alongside two of our team (Amanda & Debbie) from the Furness Ability & Sleep Hub.

We are incredibly proud to have secured funding from to bring this valuable training to Furness completely FREE of charge.

💤 Missed out on today's training? Don't worry!

We are planning further Sleep Champion training courses in the coming months.

Future courses will incur a fee but we will do everything we can to keep future courses as affordable and accessible as possible.

Keep an eye on our page for further announcements!

💜 Better Sleep. Better Wellbeing. Stronger Communities.

This is just the beginning! We look forward to seeing the positive difference our new Sleep Champions will make across Furness.

From all of us at A Stitch Different CIC – Furness Ability & Sleep Hub, THANK YOU! 💜

08/10/2026

Tickets going fast! Get booked on asap

Book tickets here

https://www.ticketsource.com/youthability-youth-services/t-njdanzn

06/10/2026

Anyone help get our youth club room up & running again?

Any help greatly appreciated

🧡 HELP US REBUILD YOUTHABILITY – OUR £9,500 CHALLENGE 🧡

We finally have a vision for what the new YouthAbility Centre could look like… now we need your help to make it happen.

As many of you know, we have been out of our centre while major building works have been taking place. Unfortunately, those works have been delayed and, if everything goes to plan, we are now hoping to finally get back into the building around mid-January 2027.

But getting back through the doors is only the beginning.

A lot of our equipment and furniture was either damaged or assessed as no longer safe or suitable to return to the building.

So rather than patching things together, we want to start with a blank canvas and get it right first time.

We want to create a centre designed around the needs of our young people — somewhere that is safe, accessible, welcoming and genuinely inclusive for young people with SEND, while also being a fantastic resource for our wider community.

💷 Our initial target is around £9,500, which will help towards:

🎮 Rebuilding our Gaming & Computer Room
✨ Creating a fully equipped Sensory Room
🔵 Rebuilding our Ball Pit Room
🎨 Bringing our Art Room back to life
🛋️ New modular furniture for our Main Youth Room
💡 New lighting throughout the centre
🛠️ Materials, worktops, storage and other improvements

We also want to create our new “This Is Me” 1-to-1 and counselling room, but we need local joiners/builders to visit us and provide quotations before we can set a fundraising target for this part of the project.

We will be applying for grants locally and nationally and Community Payback will be helping us with much of the work, but we can’t do everything on our own.

🏢 Could your business sponsor a room or piece of equipment?

🔨 Are you a local tradesperson who could donate some time or offer a discounted price?

🧱 Could your business donate building materials, worktops, furniture or equipment?

💷 Could you organise a fundraiser or make a donation?

❤️ Or could you simply SHARE THIS POST and help us reach somebody who can?

We know £9,500 is a big ask, but we’re not asking one person or one business to find £9,500.

Every £5, every donated item, every hour of someone’s time and every share gets us another step closer.

The pictures below show our proposed designs and our vision for what these spaces could become. They aren’t finished rooms yet — they’re what we’re working towards.

Our young people deserve a centre they can be proud of.

Same young people. Bigger, brighter future. 🧡

If you think you, your workplace or your business could help us, please send YouthAbility a message.

🙏 Thank you for continuing to support us.

Let’s rebuild YouthAbility together.

https://gofund.me/5dcce379a

06/10/2026

05/10/2026

Please email [email protected] or PM if interested, we are trying to have only one type of seller at this market which will also be open to scentsy, books, etc (no tombola)

02/10/2026

Tickets are now available for Manchester Christmas markets (over 18s only) at Walney Community Centre, Barrow-in-Furness on Sat 28 Nov 2026 at 8:00AM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

30/09/2026

We are having a destash! Lots of fabrics to clear!! Collection Walney Community Centre or postage at cost.

29/09/2026

Getting ready for the festive season, orders now being taken

25/09/2026

Please PM to place orders for any items, we will be uploading our shop very soon with all the items we sell at our markets from personalised items, toys, 3d printed & sensory items

22/09/2026

Tomorrow!! Walney Community Centre fans