The Distance Travelled

1963 - Formed as Trinity Youth Club - a three evening per week club opened just after the end of National Service and operating for nine years under voluntary leadership

1972 - First full-time youth worker appointed.

1973 - Work with disabled people started at Calderstones, Whalley, a long-stay mental handicap institution, operating as a home for 2,000 people with learning disabilities. Young people visited 3 evenings a week, and went away at weekends with residents of Calderstones.

1982 - Community Youth Action Group as part of Trinity Youth Club, formed to undertake community-based work with disabled people.

1983 - 20th Aniversary celebrations

1984 - During the dark days of unemployment we set up training & employment programmes for young people and adults through Youth Opportunities Programme, Youth Training Scheme and Community Programme.

1985 - Centre doubled in size with £150,000 extension built by local trainee workers and unemployed people and the 18 Plus Group started.

1986 - Skill Share formed as voluntary training project. Sets up as an independent group.

1989 - Formation of Jigsaw Project - promoting rights and equality of disabled people.

1991 - Formation of Jigsaw Youth Integration Project - integrating young disabled peole into youth club. Formation of Jigsaw Pantry to provide training and employment of disabled people in catering. Formation of Clitheroe Out of School Club - one of four starting in Lancashire, 10 years before most others.

1993 - 30th Anniversary Celebrations.

1995 - Centre adds more floor space - new improvements and extensions costing £80,000. Jigsaw Project helped to set up North West E.Net - a networking group promoting training & employment for disabled people.

1996 - Formation of Jigsaw Employment Service - Jobs for disabled people in commercial companies.

1997 - Activate - Two year youth drugs peer education project. Rural transport project set up through formation of Ribble Valley Community Transport.

1998 - Formation of Jigsaw Prospects - supporting work with people experiencing mental ill health.

1999 - Skaters XL Skate Park built in Clitheroe Castle Grounds. Combined with Lancaster Foundation to take on operation of Clitheroes's Grand Cinema. Jigsaw Pantry opens Organically Minded shop in clitheroe.

2000 - Jigsaw Pantry expands catering businessess in to Accrington and Haslingden. The Grand Cinema opens in May 2000, with a screening of "Whistle Down The Wind".

2001 - Millenium Volunteers starts through Community Action Network. Trinity Partnership sets up Clitheroe the Future as a part of Countryside Agency's Market Towns Programme.

2002 - Set up Database IT Training Centre, in old Co-op Building in Henthorn Road, Clitheroe.

2003 - Jigsaw Employment Service opens Job Shop in Accrington. Prosperity Recycling project formed in factory unit in Accrington with Prospects Foundation, Volunteer Development project, funding by Home Office Active Community Unit, set up Organic Horticulature due to start in Ribble Valley