Two located in Schools, one in Salford and one in Firswood, as well as a Family Centre in Old Trafford.

This is to enable parents and particularly young mothers, to make access to training and to develop their skills while their children are being cared for or attending the Schools.

The Centre has also worked with Asylum Seekers and a wide range of community-based adults working on a voluntary, charitable or faith community.

The Training is supported by the European Social Fund, Learning and Skills Council, Manchester, and Trafford MBC through its NLDC project.

At a practical level, the Centre has helped to develop a Learning Centre in a local factory through the direct work with the GMB Lancashire Region and the developments of a network of Learner Representatives.

Again, offering supporting and training to the individuals.

The Heritage Project located in the Centre also tells the story of people in industries that have gone to make up this vast industrial estate over the past 100 years.

Trafford Park now has over 1,400 companies and 55,000 employees, and St Antony's Centre continues to respond to the needs of the area.

Fr Joe Carter is the Chaplain to three of the Companies including Kellogg's, and Van Den Bergh.

The Centre is open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Enquiries to 0161 848 9173.


Kevin Flanagan


Greater Manchester Industrial Mission & St Antony's Centre - - 25 years on …



Little did I know in 1982 when the Rev Rowland Goodwin commenced his Chaplaincy in Trafford Park to work alongside Fr Joe Carter, that his influence would lead to our direct involvement in the work of Greater Manchester Industrial Mission.

As a lay initiative, the Centre for Church and Industry at St Antony's in Trafford Park, was striving to develop an initiative that would help to bridge faith and work in a very practical way.

Now in 2004/5, we are celebrating our 25th year since the Centre was first started and realised that we are heavily involved in the work of Ecumenical Industrial Mission in Greater Manchester.

In fact, the Centre has become its natural home from which the administration and support for the work of the network of Chaplains now takes place and are also responsible for helping to develop the network of Chaplains to try and give practical support wherever possible to their ever growing range of initiatives and work load.

The Centre itself has a very proud history of working alongside Trade Unions and Employers on the Trafford Park Estate and further a field.

Over the years, it has developed a purpose-built Centre which can accommodate Conferences of up to 100 people and is now regularly used by a wide range of Employers, Community Groups and Training Organisations in order to develop their own work.

In a good year, over 10,000 visitors can pass through the Centre and its projects.

The second major development has been the Training Department which is now a City & Guilds Accredited IT Training Centre, offering Basic and Level 1 qualifications.

However the Training does not just take place within the Centre, it now has a wide outreach to three Community-based venues.